Stuff We Found Today - 07.15.10

FLOTUS working up a sweat in the WH garden with elementary school kids - awesome!!

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Reframing climate change as a public health issue - (BMC Public Health) Very interesting study as to how the public reacts...
• AFN honors new crop of young eco-heros - (Mother Nature Network) Kids who get things done...because kids are the future!
• Infants Ingest Nearly 80 Times Safe Level of Dioxin - (Inhabitots)

Food Stuff

• Unusual, healthy homemade popsicles - (Mother Nature Network) Some interesting flavor combos to tryout...thinking that the "Crunchy Peanut Butter-Banana" one is going to be a hit with the kiddies.
• "Agroecology Outperforms Large-Scale Industrial Farming for Global food Security," Says US Expert - (Organic Consumers Association) Organic farming can feed the world and better the environment!
• Stop the Chocolate Industry from Exploiting Children - (The Hunger Site) "The Mars, Cargill, and Hershey corporations use child slavery in western Africa to keep production costs down. Take action!"
• What Your Grocer Won't Tell You About Food Additives [Infographic] - (TheDailyGreen) "What you need to know about nitrates, preservatives, hormones and other ubiquitous additives."
• Do You Know Which Fish Are Safe to Eat? - (TheDailyGreen) "Learn how to avoid mercury contamination."
• Morgan's Gooey Chocolate Brownies - (The Kind Life) Oooohhh...these look too good not to try...just use Fair Trade cocoa powder and chocolate chips!

Home Stuff

• Tips for cooling off this summer - (Mother Nature Network) Tips for keeping cool that will save you $$ and the environment.

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles Starting This Fall - (Ecouterre) "Over 190,000 tons of textiles made their way into Big Apple landfills in 2008 alone..." That's a lot of clothes!
• Toms Shoes Make A Splash for Clean Water - (EcoStiletto) Another reason to get a pair this summer!
• BioCouture: U.K. Design "Grows" an Entire Wardrobe From Bacteria - (Ecouterre) Wow...talk about biodegradable!!

Tech & Science Stuff

• GE and Yves Behar Unveil Superfast WattStation EV Charger - (Inhabitat) Powers up cars in 4-8 hours and it's way cool looking!!

School, College & Student Stuff

• 10 of the Best Colleges for Environmental Studies - (TheDailyGreen)
• LA students rethink lunch - (Mother Nature Network) "A coalition of New Orleans students joins together to evaluate and offer better solutions to improve school lunches."

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Forty-One Years Late, Have Things Changed? - (Sierra Club) A look back at the Santa Barbara Oil spill...
• Corn is the Biggest Culprit in Gulf Dead Zone - (Organic Consumers Association) "...a biofuel is contributing to a Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" the size of New Jersey..."
• Oil Spills By the Numbers [Infographic] - (TheDailyGreen) "The BP Gulf Oil Spill focuses new attention on a problem that has plagued the oceans for decades."

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Stunning Swedish Treehotel Opens This Weekend! - (Inhabitat) With mirrored walls, it seems to blend into the forest...way cool looking!

Website Stuff

• A social network for 'off-gridders' - (Mother Nature Network) "Off-grid guru offers a social network and news source for people looking to drop out of the grind and to power up with solar." Interesting movement...
• Cool interactive maps track Gulf oil impacts - (Mother Nature Network) "Two new data maps let you see the scope of various Gulf oil impacts and raise questions about why certain beaches remain open."
• FarmVille to offer organic crop - (Mother Nature Network) "For the first time, gamers can grow organic blueberries and learn the principals of sustainable farming." Hmmm...guess this if for all you Facebook FarmVille junkies!

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Toxic Chemicals Lobby: Exclusive Footage - (Organic Consumers Association) "Safer Chemicals Healthy Families created this wacky video to galvanize public support for Congressional action to make sure the products we reach for, sleep on, and eat from every day aren't loaded with toxic chemicals."
• New Law Prevents Media From Photographing Oil-Soaked Wildlife - (Change.org)
• FLOTUS working up a sweat in the WH garden - (Obama Pics Daily) Yes...we think this lady rocks. Love that she's OK being photographed getting all hot and sweaty in the garden.