Stuff We Found Today - 09.24.09

The Giant Hand Buried in the Atacama Desert

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Swine Flu: A Guide for Parents - (Parenting.com) For those of you with kids heading back to school.
• iPhone Apps for Parents - (Ideal Bite) "...programs to find recycling centers, shop for organic foods, or entertain your kid sans paper - all stuff to make green living easier and cheaper for your fam..."
• Green Energy Technologies: Fuel Cell Kit - (Green Energy News) An experiment kit for kids..."provides 30 research experiments to offer youngsters a practical familiarity with fuel cell technology and electrolysis." Whoa...think how smart you're kids will be!
• What Is BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene) And Why You Should Avoid It. - (The Good Human) Yeah...you should read this.

Food Stuff

• Organic Beer - (Ideal Bite) Some to try.
• Blood and Chocolate - (Gourmet.com) "After 10 years of promises, protocols, and initiatives, the children of West Africa remain at the mercy of the cocoa industry."
• Beer Wars: A brewing fight - (Mother Nature Network) "Is your favorite 'organic craft beer' really brewed by Anheuser-Busch? A documentary reveals the fight over good beer."

Home Stuff

• Earthship home first to hit European market - (Mother Nature Network) "For a little under half a million dollars, you can own a beautifully constructed French earthship with three foot thick walls, solar panels, and a small indoor greenhouse garden." Hmmm...always thought of living in the French countryside...
• Lonely L.A. rain barrels seeking green homes - (Mother Nature Network) "Los Angeles continues to give free rain barrels to homeowners interested in rainwater harvesting ... rain not included." Given current drought conditions, this is not such a bad idea.
• 7 Products Earn Green Good Housekeeping Seal Certification - (TheDailyGreen) "Cleaning and beauty products not only live up to marketing claims for efficacy, but for sustainability, too."

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Strip Away Unwanted Hair Naturally - (Feelgood Style) This is for all you ladies who like to wax.
• Killspencer Bags Salvaged From Battle-Tested Materials - (Inhabitat) Geared towards guys, these are some seriously cool bags made from recycled military truck tarps (adding to the coolness factor).
• ecouterre - Great new fashion (and beauty) website showcasing designers that are really focused on sustainability.
• Why is Eco-Fashion So Expensive? - (Ecouterre) Good article...puts things into perspective.

Tech & Science Stuff

• Surface Area Required to Solar Power the World - (information is Beautiful) Kind of puts things into perspective.
• California sets biggest energy efficiency plan - (Yahoo! News) "...$3.1 billion to retrofit homes and other programs that will cut power needs equivalent to three medium-sized power plants... and create between 15,000 and 18,000 jobs."
• EV Charging Stations to Green a Scenic California Highway - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) "...along Highway 101 from San Francisco to Los Angeles." Woohoo!

Nature & Environment Stuff

• 20 million displace from homes by climate change - (Mother Nature Network) "Shocking UN report indicates that 4x the number of people were displaced by climate change than by political conflict."
• Nature Photography: 29 Rare & Exotic Animal Photographs - (WebEcoist) Animals are so cool!

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Video: Harrison Ford talks climate change - (Mother Nature Network)
• Earth Cinema Circle - It's like a Netflix for environmental films...except you get to keep the DVDs! Films can change the world...
• The Giant Hand Buried in the Atacama Desert - (Environmental Graffiti) "It looks like the extremity of a giant man, buried by a monumental sandstorm."
• It's on! Fighting back against Mother Nature - (Mother Nature Network) "The Daily Show's Assif Mandvi warns us about the dangers the planet poses and asks, what can we do to fight back?" (video in post)
• Limbaugh to be Unlikely Green-Car Contestant on Leno - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) "...surprising because of Limbaugh’s anti-green-car tirade in late March." See the car race here...notice that Rush exclaims he loves the electric car after driving it. Green ain't so bad, is it, Rush?

International Stuff

• UK's Tony Blair Finds Climate Action Will Increase Global GDP & Create Millions of Jobs - (CleanTechnica)
• Watch Global Climate Week Live - (Live Earth)
• India Agrees To Limit Carbon Emissions; Will The U.S. Follow Suit? - (Live Earth) "India agreed for the first time to set numerical targets for curbing its greenhouse gas emissions!"

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Obama gives his first real climate speech - really - (Grist) At U.N. Climate Summit.
• Hummer owners view themselves as morally superior - (Mother Nature Network) "A new study reveals that Hummer owners believe that they are defending 'America's frontier lifestyle' against 'anti-American critics'." Are you freakin' kidding us?!!

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Four Infographic Morsels - (Information is Beautiful) These are interesting and kind of make you think.
• If Twitter Was 100 People - (Information is Beautiful)
• The story of Fair Trade - (Mother Nature Network) Video in post.
• Why a Nice Jewish Girl Write Holiday Carols - (Fair Trade Resource Network) Great article... "a self-described 'nice Jewish girl,”'is sharing the faith-based reasons behind her Fair Trade work."
• The Chronic Misconception of Hemp - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) "Betsy Ross made flags from it, George Washington farmed it, and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were reportedly drafted on it."