Stuff We Found This Weekend - 06.28.09

Little Miss Muffet in the eye of a needle - art by Willard Wigan

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• When breast cancer has 'No Family History' - (Enviroblog) Looking at environmental causes and prevention...
• Does BPA Cause Infertitlity - (Envronmental Working Group: Kid-Safe Chemical Act) "Yale researchers may have solved a fundamental medical mystery: how bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous plastics component, changes genetic chemistry and impairs fertility."

Food Stuff

• Arsenic in Your Chicken Dinner: Not A Recipe - (TakePart Social Action Network)
• 20 Garden Veggies That Could Each Save You $25 or More (Including One Worth $600) - (TheDailyGreen) "See how much planting a garden can save you at the grocery store. Then plant your own organic garden."

Home Stuff

• Keep Cool Without AC (Because It's Making You Broke) - (Chelsea Green) "...you may want to reconsider blasting your AC in the cars, in your house, and in your workplace... It raises your electricity costs by fifty percent."
• Smart Green Design: Indoor Vertical Gardening for Apartment Dwellers - (EarthFirst)
• Bargain Buy: Organic cotton sheets - (living gwg) "Enter the 300 thread count organic sheets at Overstock.com...marked down from $160+ to under $40..." What a steal!

Work & Business Stuff

• Green Light for Green Careers - (Do Something Green Everyday) "According to a Reuters survey, the average green collar worker makes $76,000 per year. In North America, the green job sector encompasses 26 per cent of workers, a number that is sure to grow in the near future."
• Great Green Job of the Week: Environmental Education Specialist, Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge - (EarthFirst)
• Climate and economy no longer at odds: New study finds MIami to have over 25,000 new jobs with green investments - (Green For All) "...research indicates that an economy-wide investment of $150 billion in renewable energy and energy efficiency would create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs...that low-income communities would do very well under such an investment – nearly half of the jobs created would be accessible to individuals with little formal education."
• Green Jobs at Home - June 26, 2009 - (Green Gigs)

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Watch: Michael Jackson's Earth Song Music Video - (Ecorazzi) "Have you ever heard of Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song”?... That’s because the single was never released in the United States — even though it remained Jackson’s best-selling hit in the UK, beating out even “Thriller” or “Beat It”."
• Beauty is in the Eye of the Pin Holder - (Environmental Graffiti) Amazing miniature art by Willard Wigan...sculptures that fit in the eye of a needle!! You have to see this!

Website Stuff

• U.N. Tapping into Social Media for Climate Treaty Inspiration - (ecogeek) "The U.N. has launched a social media site...called Hopenhagen, allows people around the world to create a Twitter-like post (45 characters max) answering the question "What gives you hope for a better planet?""

International Stuff

• Auto-ban: German town goes car-free - (Culture Change) "...they have banished everything with four wheels and an engine from the streets of Vauban – a model brave new world of a community..."

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Historic clean energy bill passes the House of Representatives - (Repower America)
• Tell Congress to Stop Mercury Pollution from Chlorine Plants - (Oceana: Take Action) The Mercury Pollution Reduction Act, H.R. 2190, would make the outdated "Foul Four" chlorine plants update their equipment to modern technology that doesn't utilize or release mercury.
• Official WH candid from late May/early June - (Obama Pics Daily) Just because candid pics from the White House are always fun to look at...

Other Random Cool Stuff

• A World Without Oil - (Chelsea Green) Hmmm...something to think about...because at some point (whether you believe it will be soon and much later), it will be.
• Chainsaw Biofuel - Saturday Morning Cartoon - (The Good Human)