Stuff We Found Today - 02.12.10

Awesome e-cards for Valentine's Day

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• At Target this Valentine's Day: L is for Lead - (Generation Green) Stuffed animals at Target containing lead...READ THIS!!

Food Stuff

• Tell Kraft to Adopt Cadbury's Ethical Behavior - (Change.org) We just signed this petition... will you?
• Take GM Corn off the Shelves! - (Care2) "...International Journal of Biological Sciences has revealed the true cost of these crops...study focused on three GM corn crop...and found that they caused statistically significant rates of kidney and liver malfunction, as well as some heart, adrenal, spleen and blood damage in rats. These crops have been approved for consumption in the U.S. and many countries in Europe without proper research into their affect on human health."
• Michael Pollan on Food Rules: An Eater's Manual - (FORA.tv) "Don't Eat What You See on TV" - check out this video as Michael Pollan talks about food marketing.
• You ask, they answer: Green & Black's - (guardian.co.uk) "...Green & Black's will be online from Monday to Friday this week answering your questions." Ask away!!
• Mom Mouths Off at Child Slave Practices of Chocolate Giants - (The Cocoa Project) This mom gets it!
• Rapunzel's Triple Chocolate Brownies - (Cookus Interruptus) Definitely going to have to try this recipe...mmmmm. (video in post)

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• 14 Sexy Sustainable Undies To Set Hearts (And Sheets) Afire - (Ecouterre) Hot, hot, hot!
• Vivienne Westwood Tells People to Stop Buying Clothes - (Ecouterre) "...get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think..."
• Stop Wating Water Washing Dirty Jeans...Freeze Them! - (Ecouterre) Wow...really!!

Tech & Science Stuff

• Power Up: Batteries Not Included - (TrendCentral) "Innovative energy solutions fuel the fight for a clean environment..."

Nature & Environment Stuff

• The Largest Crab on Earth - (Environmental Graffiti) Ladies & gentlemen... the coconut crab! Wow!!
• 30 Japanese Hornets Massacre 30,000 Bees - (Environmental Graffiti) Craziest thing we've seen in a while! (video in post)

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Tell President Obama: No More Offshore Oil Drilling - (Oceana.org) "Renewable energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuel production and no carbon emissions. Expanding drilling runs directly counter to the President's own policy goal of reducing carbon emissions." We just signed this letter!
• 5 Greenest Companies of 2009 - (Environmental Graffiti) You may be suprised by some of them.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• The Gyre: A Floating Upside Down Eco Skyscraper - (Inhabitat) Gotta check this out...can we say Water World?
• Best {Free} Websites for Valentine's Day E-Cards - (Celebrate Green) These are good!!