Stuff We Found Today - 05.07.09

Dragonfly Vertical Farm designed for New York

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• HealthyToys.org: The Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys - Found these guys on Twitter...informative site that provides "test results for more than 2,200 toys and children’s products. This site is a first step in providing consumers with the information they need to make better choices when purchasing toys and other children’s products."
  

Food Stuff

• Seasonal recipe: Asparagus guacamole - (Mother Nature Network) With so much fresh asparagus available at all the farmer's markets, this sounds like a good recipe to tryout.
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Just for Mom Week - Eco-Lubes: Wanna jump start your sex life? - (Ideal Bite) Hey mamas...looking for a little eco-lovin'? (wink, wink) "...rev up the engine with water-based, synthetic-free lubricants."

Tech & Science Stuff

• The air car is poised for mass production - (Mother Nature Network) "A French engineer's uber-green invention may become more than just an environmentalist's dream - a car with zero emissions."
• New iPhone app gets you in the 'green habit' - (Mother Nature Network)
  

Work & Business Stuff

• This Week's Sustainable Jobs - (Just Means) See list on left side of page for this week's job postings.
  

School, College & Student Stuff

• Green schools 101 - (Mother Nature Network) "Everything you need to know about greening your child's school."

Nature & Environment Stuff

• The Prince's Rainforests Project - (Mother Nature Network) "Prince Charles tapped his very deep Rolodex to bring together some of the world's biggest stars to remind us that we still need to save the rain forests." (video in post)
• Ghost Nets Live On - (GreenMuze) "Abandoned and lost fishing gear is having a serious impact on the marine environment ...ocean debris is mounting and the consequences of dumping fishing gear and other garbage into the ocean is starting to have lethal consequences for marine life and seabirds."

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Celebrity Chatter About Going Green - (Sierra Club: The Green Life)....just for fun.
• Age of Stupid on DVD - (GreenMuze) "The climate change documentary/drama hybrid follows Pete Postlethwaite, the narrator of the film, an old man living alone in what is a devastated world of 2055, looking at 'archive footage” from 2008, asking “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?'."

International Stuff

• Empire strike bags - (Mother Nature Network) "Which countries are banning plastic bags?"

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• ILU Oprah - (Obama Pics Daily) "Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey were seated next to each other at Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala at Rose Hall - Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 5, 2009 in New York City."
• First Lady Visits Sesame Street for PSA - (Obama Pics Daily) Apparently this pic has gone viral on the web...we're just adding to the frenzy. Of course, it's all the comments below the pics on this blog that we love.
  
• Obama passes a major test, but most of the class doesn't notice - (Jeff McMahon - Scorched Earth) ...putting science before politics...

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Mother of the Year Video - This is hilarious, put in the name of your favorite mom and sit back and watch.
• 6 Eco Myths Debunked - (TheDailyGreen) "Congratulations, Factcheck.org, on your well-deserved Webby. Here's a look at six recent environmental and energy myths that the fact-checking site has debunked."
• Recycle Yourself: Green Burial and Eco-Coffins - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) "...Americans entomb more than 1.6 million tons of concrete and nearly 830,000 gallons of toxic embalming fluid annually, plus immense amounts of steel."
• Ways to tell good plasitcs from bad ones - (Mother Nature Network) "Some plastics are more recyclable than others."
• Dragonfly Vertical Farm - (GreenMuze) "Designed for New York City, the self-contained vertical farm prototype is modeled after a dragonfly and works to provide food, housing and renewable energy via a closed system in densely populated urban settings." Would be crazy to see this for real!