Stuff We Found Today - 03.27.12

Sand art by Andres Amodor along California coastline

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Raising Confident Sons Who Have Respect for Others - (Crazy Sexy Life) If you're a mother to boys, you might appreciate this... we did!

Food Stuff

• How To Make Organic Sweet Pickles with Your Children - (Inhabitots) Kids love pickles and this is a great project to do with them.
• Say No to Pink Slime! - (MomsRising.org) "Join us in urging USDA and FDA to get pink slime out of ground beef now, or at the very least to require labels to list it as an ingredient so that we can decide not to buy it in the stores!"
• Bummer! Soda Causes Cancer (Ready to Finally Give Up the Cola Now?) - (Eco-Chick) "High levels of a carcinogen known as 4-methylimidazole, or 4-MI, are created when certain forms of ammonia are used to create the caramel food dye used in some of the most popular soda brands on the planet."
• Safeway, Supervalu Ditch 'Pink Slime' Beef - (Huffington Post) Yes, we consumers can change the behavior of companies!

Home Stuff

• Awesome Birde's Nest Bed is a Cozy Roost for Kids - (Inhabitat) Forget the kids, us adults want this bed...so great for cuddling in (or sink into and read a good book).
• 7 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air Around You Naturally - (Inhabitat) Good to know...now for some new house & office plants.
• How to reuse silica gel packets - (Mother Nature Network) Wow...didn't know these packets had such great uses and can be reused over and over.

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Dazzling "Aurura" Dress Features 10,000 Embroided LEDs - (Ecouterre) This is how you light up a room!

School, College & Student Stuff

• How to establish a Farm to School program - (Mother Nature Network) Hey...calling all PTA members!

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Study confirms arsenic in chicken feed enters water as poison - (Chesapeake Bay Journal) Just great...
• Praying Mantis - (Environmental Graffiti) These are some cool pictures of a very cool looking bug.
• After lengthy analysis, scientists say BP oil spill the culprit for heavy toll on corals - (The Washington Post) The aftermath of this just keeps going...just sad.
• Barataria Bay Dolphins Show Symptoms 'Consistent With Oil Exposure' - (Huffington Post) ...and more great news - NOT!

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Amazing Origami Art Folded out of Money - (Inhabitat) These are pretty cool!
• 8 Unbelievable Eco-Hotels From Around the World - (Ecorazzi) Would love to stay in some of these.
• Artist Uses the Beach s canvas for his Ephemeral Sand Art - (Treehugger) These are cool.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• The Big List of Things That Suck - (EcoStiletto) This list will make you think.
• 30 Dr. Suess Quotes Thant Can Change Your Life - (Greenster)
• Urban Algae Farms Could Heat Buildings While Treating Wastwater - (Inhabitat) Interesting.

Quote of the Week - 03.25.12

VIDEO: Ellen's Dance Dares

If you need a good giggle, check out this video clip from The Ellen Degeneres Show... we can't stop watching and falling off our seats laughing!

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Quote of the Week - 03.18.12

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VIDEO: Chipotle's commercial...commentary on our food system

So...we don't normal promote fast food restaurants, but this Chipotle commercial is pretty darn great. In case you missed it, here it is.

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Stuff We Found Today - 03.11.12

Enchanted Forest of Carved Tree Stump Creatures

Food Stuff

• Hershey Will Offer Certified Chocolate Following Consumer-Driven Campaign - (WSJ MarketWatch) About time Hershey!!
• Tell USDA to STOP Using Pink Slime in School Food! - (Change.org) So, McDonald's and Burger King stopped using it due to public outcry, but the USDA thinks its okay to give it to our school kids....say WHAAATTTT???!!!!!!!
• Decoding Meat & Dairy Product Labels - 2011 Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change - (Environmental Working Group) Good reference source to understanding all those labels when at the grocery store.

Home Stuff

• 8 Amazing Hidden Rooftop Houses You've Probably Never Noticed in New York City - (Inhabitat) These are so cool!

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• World's Largest Garment Made From Golden Spider Silk Goes on Display - (Ecouterre) "...unlike mulberry silk from silkworms, in which the hapless pupa is boiled alive in its cocoon, the spiders were released into the wild at the end of each day."

Tech & Science Stuff

• Water-Storing Himalayan Towers - (Inhabitat) Designed to address anticipated water needs due to climate change.
• Incredible LEGO Printer Invented y 14-Year-Old Boy! - (Inhabitat) Kids do amazing things.
• 350 MGPe Peraves MonoTracer Electric MTE-150 Motorbike Hits the Market - (Inhabitat) A fast electric bike with luxury cabin!
• 10-Year-Old Discovers New Molecule That could Improve Energy Storage - (Inhabitat) Smart kid!
• Michelin Challenge Design Shows Off The Best in Futuristic City Cars - (Inhabitat) Always neat to look at.

Nature & Environment Stuff

• An Enchanted Forest of Carved Tree Stump Creatures Sprouts in the UK - (Inhabitat) These are kinda cool.
• Study: Only 10 percent of big fish remain - (CNN) This is not good people!!
• 11 animales that mate for life - (Mother Nature Network) Beautiful pics of some loving animals.
• Study Shows That Potent New Pesticides May Be Killing Off Honeybees - (Inhabitat)
• Watch: Aurora borealis in real time - (Mother Nature Network) -video
• Biggest Teahupoo Ever, Shot on the Phantom Camera [video] - Amazing footage o gigantic barrel wave...nature is awesome!
• Amazing Map Shows Every Tree in the United States - (Inhabitat) Interesting...didn't realize how barren the central US is.

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Tentsile Treehouse Tents Provide a Safe Haven in the Treetops! - (Inhabitat) A hammock/tent hybrid...tree camping anyone?
• Bonsai Tree Castles - (Inhabitat) Amazing collaboration of nature and art.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• 7 Dangerous Lies About Plastic - (AlterNet) Worth a read.
• Your empty driveway: A potential money-maker? - (Mother Nature Network) "ParkatmyHouse, an online booking system that connects owners of empty driveways with perpetually circling drivers in need of a convenient parking spot, arrives on American soil."
• A green revolution at our nation's malls - (Mother Nature Network) "Our shopping centers are ready for a new incarnation — as community spaces, sports centers and maybe even farms."

Quote of the Week - 03.11.12

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