VIDEO: Carbon Nation Trailer

Can't wait to see this...

"...a climate change solutions movie [that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change]..."

Stuff We Found Today - 06.23.10

Brian Williams slow jams w/ Jimmy Fallon on the Gulf oil spill

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Chemicals in Food Blamed for Early Puberty in Girls - (Inhabitots)
• Is your sunscreen in EWG's Sunscreen Hall of Shame? - (Enviroblog) Worth taking a look at before you slather on that sunscreen and head out for the sun.

Food Stuff

• Urban Foraging: Some hardcore foodies are going even more local than the greenmarket - (TrendCentral) New green food trend? If so... cool!
• The Food Movement, Rising - (The New York Review of Books) Great article by Michael Pollan...worth a read.
• Crispy Cajun Chickpea Cakes - (VeganDad) Came across the recipe...looks delish - kind of like a cajun falafel.
• How to make stainless steel pans stick-free - (green LA girl) Wow...super cool trick to know. Bye-bye teflon!

Home Stuff

• The European Solar Decathlon Kicks Off Today - Exclusive Photos! - (Inhabitat) Some very cool looking solar prefab homes here...would love to have one of these!
• Kleenex Had Towels: Pay a nickel every time you wash your hands - (green LA girl) Seriously...what are they thinking?!!

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• 365 upcycled dresses in 365 days for $365 - (Mother Nature Network) "A West Hollywood woman kicks off her 30s with an eco-fashionable project: Turn a vintage dud into a chic outfit every day -- for $1 a day." Some of her creations are pretty darn cute!
• Underarm Clothing Patch Eliminates Body Odor Through Nanotechnology - (Ecouterre) Hey...if this works, we can finally ditch the deodorant!
• Who Says It's Good For You? The Truth About "Non-Toxic" Nail Polish - (EcoStiletto)
• Brooklyn Designer Makes Jewelry From Human Hair: Cool or Creepy? - (Ecouterre) Little creepy to us...what do you think?
• Artful Undergarments: Rio Wrenn's R.A.W. Eco Lingerie Collection - (Eco-Chick) Seriously sexy undergarments...love the vintage inspirations.
• 14 Eco-Friendly Bikinis, Swimsuits, Board Shorts to Sizzle Your Summer - (Ecouterre) Cute, cute, cute... and some boardshorts for the guys.

Tech & Science Stuff

• Europe Will Be Powered by Saharan Sun in Five Years - (EcoGeek.org) Wow...when will we be powered by sun??

Work & Business Stuff

• Join MNN's local correspondent program - (Mother Nature Network) Love to write about all things green and want to make a difference? Check this out!

Nature & Environment Stuff

• 9 jaw-dropping caves - (Mother Nature Network) Some very cool pics!
• Tree Museum With a Collection of 2,000 Trees Opens in Switzerland - (Inhabitat)
• 10 Most Brilliantly colored Birds on Earth - (Environmental Graffiti) Some beautiful bird pics...
• Still Deny That Climate Change Is Real? This Is Who Agrees With You. - (The Good Human)

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• 'Gasland' Filmmaker Josh Fox Ignites Conversation On The Daily Show - (Ecorazzi) Rather eye-opening...definitely worth a listen (video in post).
• Brian Williams Slow Jams The News With Jimmy Fallon - (Ecorazzi) "Slow jam" about the Gulf Oil Spil...OMG, freakin' hilarious (video in post).

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Stop unwanted phone books: Easy online opt-out options - (green LA girl) Who uses phonebooks anymore when you can look up numbers online...get rid of the books and save on paper and clutter!

VIDEO: Consequence: Now's the Time for Us to Lead

"There is no doubt that green jobs are the future. There is no dispute that global warming is real, and that if we fail to act the consequences will be dire. President Obama declared "Now is the time for us to lead" on climate change.

Now is also the time for our generation to lead on climate change. Youth must lead because we have the most to lose. If progress is blocked by old political forces and special interests, we will be the ones facing the consequences. "

VIDEO: The Colbert Report - Global Warming With Al Gore

This "Formidable Opponent" segment with Al Gore is pretty hilarious...check it out.

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VIDEO: 1958 - Global Warming - It's NOT newly known

"For FIFTY YEARS scientists have known about global warming. This exerpt is from the well known educational documentary Unchained Goddess produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program The Bell Telephone Hour. It was so well made, that it went on to live a continued life in middle school science classrooms across the nation for decades.

Nearly half a century before Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, this film was made. But what does it reveal? That our scientists have known for over two generations about this danger, but our politicians and citizenry have chosen to ignore the dangerous implications of this fact until it really is too late to avoid the preventable consequences."

VIDEO: The American Denial of Global Warming

"Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science."

VIDEO: Bill McKibben - Fighting Climate Change in the Obama Era

Bill McKibben talks about the politics of climate change in the new Obama era, both domestically and internationally...

VIDEO: Blue Man Group video featured on "Earth To America!"

Cool video by the Blue Man Group!

Stuff We Found Today - 09.15.09

When Climate Change and Health Care Reform Collide

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Healthier Car Safety Seats - (Ideal Bite) "Pick a child safety seat that contains fewer toxins. Many of the same polluting chems used to build car parts are also used to make car seats..."

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Eco Sneaks for Green Feet - (ecomii) Basically the eco-version of the classic Converse sneakers...we're diggin' these!
• What the [Fashion] Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - (Feelgood Style) "Warning…if you wish to be oblivious to the horrible ethics of the fashion industry, don’t read. If you care to be enlightened and morph into a better human being, by all means, read on and prepare yourself for some brutal images."

Tech & Science Stuff

• World's First Smart Grid City Is Now Operational - (EcoGeek.org) It's in Boulder, CO.
• NBC Nightly News talks cell phone radiation - (Enviroblog) Video in post.
• Colorado will offer $6,000 Tax Credit for Plug-in Hybrid Conversions - (Gas 2.0)

Work & Business Stuff

• 7 Companies You Should Be Doing Business With - (Green Lifestyle Magazine) Coco-Zen is mentioned as 1 of the 7 businesses in this article....woo hoo!!!
• Greener Jobs Roundup 9/12/09 - (Jetson Green)
• California announces $75 million statewide green job training program, nation's largest - (Green For All) "On August 31, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California announced what will be the largest statewide green jobs training program in the country."
• Green Gigs Job Listings - Sept. 12, 2009 - (Green Gigs)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Water pollution free-for-all - (Enviroblog)
• UN secretary-General Call Arctic Visit "Frightening" - (Global Warming Is Real) "A shaken United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reacts to a recent visit to the Arctic region." (videos in post)

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Duran Duran To Record New Global Warming Song With Celebs - (Ecorazzi)

International Stuff

• Scramble for the Arctic Intensifies - (Global Warming Is Real)
• Australia is #1 - New World Leader in Global Warming Emissions - (Clean Technica) "Australia has passed the US as the new world leader in CO2 emissions per capita."
• Germany to Create Countrywide Hydrogen Fuel Network by 2015 - (Inhabitat)

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Department of Labor Releases List of Slave-Made Goods - (Change.org) Please check out this list and the countries associated with the goods...and yes, cocoa is on here!
• A Green Certification on the Horizon for the White House? - (GreenBiz.com) "Going far beyond the organic vegetable garden and playground made from recycled materials, President Barack Obama intends to get the White House LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council."
• California to Get Large Renewable Energy Standard, One Way or Another - (EcoGeek.org)
• White House Farmers Market Gets The Green Light - (Ecorazzi) "With a little help from the first family, a nonprofit group called Fresh Farm Markets, has won approval for a city permit to close Vermont Avenue Northwest between H and I Streets to traffic for its newest market near the White House." How cool is that?!!!
• When Climate Change and Health Care Reform Collide (Cartoon) - (Red, Green and Blue)
• The Real Color Problem of President Obama - (Red, Green and Blue) "Oh, they call him a communist. They call him a Red. But the actual problem is that President Obama is too Green."

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Mysterious Glow in the Sky was Astronaut Urine - (EarthFirst.com) Haha...who would have known?

Video: Bill McKibben on Colbert Report explains why the number 350 is so important...

All of Stephen's joking aside, this is serious folks. Listen to what Bill McKibben has to say...

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VIDEO: Food Scarcity and Climate Change

Summary:

"Scientists calculate that temperatures will keep rising for the next 50 years, no matter how drastically we cut greenhouse gas emissions. Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and Sara Scherr, founder of Ecoagriculture Partners, discuss the implications of this somber reality for food production and global hunger.

The panelists assess the severity of the problem, which is worsened by widespread soil erosion and dwindling rainfall in crop-growing regions. They also identify cause for hope. New farming techniques can boost crop yields while enabling plants to store carbon.

The event is moderated by Ross Gelbspan, author of two acclaimed books on climate change: Boiling Point and The Heat is On."

VIDEO: Vivienne Westwood talks about climate change & what we can do

Check out what this fashion pioneer has to say...she even tells us to buy less fashion but to buy "better".

Vivienne Westwood Interview, Pt. 1




Vivienne Westwood Interview, Pt. 2

VIDEO: Prince Charles talks about the future of the world

On the Richard Dimbleby Lecture (BBC) Prince Charles discusses "the challenges facing the world and its overconsumption of the planets resources."

Prince Charles interviewed by David Dimbleby

VIDEO: Scientist Jim Hansen Talks Climate Change

"Jim Hansen has been at the center of the climate change debate since the early Eighties as both a prominent scientist and spokesman alerting the public to the threats and uncertainties of global climate change.

The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen studies radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres related to global change on Earth."

VIDEO: Cap and Trade: What is It?

From one of our favorite blogs, EcoGeek, comes this snarky yet informative video that explains the "Cap and Trade" is all about...because not everyone knows.

Stuff We Found Today - 05.26.09

Amazing sand art by Peter Donnelly

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Natural Allergy Relief: Ready to nix your kid's allergy meds? - (Ideal Bite) "...treat allergies with a drug-free, saline nasal rinse. It'll relieve your kid's itchy, sneezy, runny nose just as well as tradish nasal sprays, but without synthetic residues and side effects - plus no toxins bringing down our waterways." Love nasal rinses for ourselves...wonder how well it go with the little ones...hmmm...
• Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood [video] - (Eco Child's Play) "The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has just released a documentary called Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood about the 'pervasive and pernicious effects of children’s advertising on the health and well-being of kids.'" (video in post)
  

Food Stuff

• Book Review: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - (EarthFirst) "...lays out the history of nutrition in America, the vicious cycle of food-related disease we’ve gotten caught up in and how you can shop and prepare meals to avoid ending up with diabetes, heart disease or other health problems yourself."
• Look Closely - Your Tofu and Soy Milk May Not Be Organic - (Eat. Drink. Better.) "...a recent report raised serious questions about many brands of soy products."

Home Stuff

• 9 Great Eco Cleaners for Your Home - (EcoSalon)
• Covered by Coconut - (EcoSalon) Cool decorative tiles made from Bahia coconut shells that can be used for walls, floors and furniture.
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Norma Kamali Goes Eco Friendly - (EcoFashionWorld) Norma Kamali brings affordable organic cotton clothing to Walmart.
• Hempday - (ecofabulous) Some very cute handbags made from hemp.
  

Tech & Science Stuff

• Sensaris Lets You Wear the Air Quality on Your Sleeve - (EcoGeek) Is this a gadget we really need??...or will it get tossed!
• Guy Builds Electric Motorcycle From Junk - (Gas 2.0) "...He Also Made A Solar And Wind-Powered Charging Station For The Bike."

Work & Business Stuff

• Great Green Job of the Week: GreenBridge Program Manager, Brooklyn Botanic Garden - (EarthFirst)
• What are green-collar jobs? - (Green For All)
• 4 Green Writing Jobs for the Holiday Weekend - (Green Gigs)
• Green Job Listings - May 21, 2009 - (Green Gigs)
  

School, College & Student Stuff

• Green College Spotlight: Stanford University - (EarthFirst) "Granted an A- by the College Sustainability Report Card (the highest grade awarded), Stanford University excels in nearly every category rated from administration to transportation."

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Global Warming Could Be Twice As Bad As Thought - (AboutMyPlanet.com)
• New MIT Study Shows Risks of Climate Change Doubled form Previous Assessment If No action Taken Now - (Global Warming Is Real)
  
• Coral is Too Precious to Wear - (EarthFirst) "Think twice before buying anything made with real coral: that’s the message that SeaWeb is sending out as coral reefs decline around the world."
• The Beauty of Birds Flocking Above [PICS] - (Environmental Grafitti) More cool nature pics.
  

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Getting Music Online: Tune Up - (Ideal Bite) CDs are made from petroleum-based plastic, and album CDs usually cost more than downloadable albums. Check out this post for great digital music sources and what do do with your old CDs.
• Who is the sexiest celebrity vegetarioan of them all? - (ecollo) Oh...just for fun.
• Cate Blanchett Urges Business Leader To Curb Carbon Emissions - (Ecorazzi) Lovely Cate...we adore you!
• Sand Art: When Beaches Become Giant Artistic Canvases - (Environmental Grafitti)
  

International Stuff

• Carteret Islands Evacuation: Climate Change Refugees in the Pacific? - (Blue Living Ideas) "...being called the world’s first evacuation of an entire people as a result of climate change..." It's happening!!
• Indonesian Orangutan Habitat Wiped Out for Airport & Brothel - (EarthFirst) "The root of the problem...is that officials are giving away land spaces to people to win their votes in the local administration elections. What it comes down to, as usual, are two of mankind’s biggest weaknesses: greed and the desire for power."
• World's First Active House in Denmark - (Jetson Green) "...a highly efficient home that captures more energy than the occupants need for heat and power. In particular, this Denmark Active House should generate enough electricity over 30 years to cancel out the energy costs of building it."

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• President Obama on Memorial Day - (Obama Pics Daily)
• The True Oil Cost of the Military Monster - (Culture Change) As always, this website posts some very interesting perspectives...worth pondering.
• Hopi Nation to Sue the U.S. Government Over Environmental Charges - (EcoSalon) "Imagine your village’s water supply was about to be contaminated by nuclear waste from a nearby dump and the federal government simply offered to put a fence around it..."
• Ex-Pentagon Officials: Energy Efficiency Directly Related to National Security - (Red, Green and Blue) You'd think conservatives would be all over this and rooting for alternative energy - regardless of climate change.
  

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Shrinky Dinks: Grain Surfboards - (Daily Candy) "The environmentally friendly wave riders are crafted from local white cedar planks in Maine. While they may seem heavier than the typical fiberglass variety, the boards are incredibly buoyant and produce gnarly momentum..."
• JUNKMAIL Saturday Night Live Green - (CTN Green News) "Junkmail tops the list of unopened postal paper waste by volume, with newspapers, catalogs and magazines topping the list by weight. Megatons. Daily." See video - hilarious!!
• Should've Been Plugged Out At Birth No. 29 - (Do The Green Thing) Now, we love our chocolate, but this has got to be the most ridiculous thing we've seen.
• Make It Green: Dream up ideas that'll green up our planet. - (Yahoo! Green) "We’re looking for the best green do-it-yourself ideas... Submit your idea, and if it’s chosen, you could see your product on store shelves, get $2,500 and a share of the sales, and possibly appear on the Everyday Edisons TV show..."
• Help EWG Bottled Water Research (and win a prize!) - (Enviroblog) "Environmental Working Group wants to make sure bottled water companies give you accurate and useful information about their water sources, purification techniques and water quality testing results. But first, we need to do some research. And that's where you come in."
• America's Energy Illiteracy - (Focus Organic) "...jaw-dropping facts that depict Americans' energy illiteracy according to Public Agenda, a nonprofit research group." This is very sad...and why we must all keep passing on the info!

VIDEO: Nature Interview with James Lovelock

Interview: James Lovelock on how to save Gaia

"James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia theory: the idea that the planet acts like a single organism. His latest book is The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning."

VIDEO: Save the Humans!

"DO YOU KNOW... '18% of all global Green Houses Gases are from the consumption of MEAT and DAIRY?'"

Here's a little music video that gets the point across on how our meat consumption is a large contributor to global warming and other environmental issues. You don't even have to go completely veggie...just consuming less meat is a tremendous improvement.

VIDEO: Google Causes Global Warming? - ZapRoot

"Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time? "

Stuff We Found Today - 01.22.09

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Ziggity Zoom - Here's a fun website for kids and parents to explore. There are games, pictures to color, stories to read and listen to and many other activities - all to encourage reading, creativity and imagination.
• Can antibacterial cleansers actually make bacteria stronger? - (Ideal Bite) "Scientists say it's no more effective than regular soap and can make germs more resistant, so go for hand cleansers that do the job without questionable chems." Our personal fave natural sanitizer is CleanWell.
• It's Hip Hop Baby - Super cool children's DVD for ages 2 to 6 "that educates toddlers and preschoolers with fun child-friendly hip hop music."

Food Stuff

• Plum Organics Kids Meals - (EcoStiletto) No time to make the kiddies' organic dinner?? Here's a line of frozen ones that also come in a biodegradable/compostable tray and box made of 100% recycled materials.
• Fair Trade Morning Per: Underdog to Top Banana - (Change.org: Fair Trade) "Banana companies have been accused of horrible abuses for almost a century. Oké USA is a new kind of company, one that brings good, healthy food to people here and enhances the lives and communities where bananas are grown."
• How Green Is My Orange? - (NYTimes.com) "How much does your morning glass of orange juice contribute to global warming? PepsiCo, which owns the Tropicana brand, decided to try to answer that question."
• Miso Happy - (Eat. Drink. Better.) "Miso is a traditional fermented Japanese food with amazing health benefits."

Home Stuff

• Top Three New Eco-Friendly, No VOC Paints - (EcoStiletto) There's a special discount for readers of this post.
• The OrganiCube - (GreenMuze) "Designed to be compact and income-appropriate, the self-contained living unit measures a mere 3×3x3m." Cool, but think we'd get a little claustrophobic.
• Adam Kalkin Maine Container House - (Jetson Green) Look at what a dozen shipping containers can make.
• Smellfree Compost Bin - (GreenMuze) Wonder if this really works...anyone tried it??
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• La Bella Donna Pure, Natural Mineral Foundation - (EcoStiletto) Love a mineral foundation in pressed compact form...no more mess! There's even a tip on how to tell whether your mineral makeup is really pure.
• Consumer Alert: Acetone-Free is Not Always Hazard-Free - (Good Housekeeping) Think nail polish remover.
  

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Antarctic Ice Shelf About to Collapse Due to Global Warming - (EarthFirst)
• Death Rate of Forests Doubles, Scientists Find - (EcoSalon)
  

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Jenny Garth Green Cleans Up - (EcoStiletto) Like many of us, motherhood brought out the green in this celeb.
• Neil Young's New Album To Be All About Eco Cars - (Ecorazzi) "We know Neil Young is absolutely head-over-heels in love with his project to convert a classic ‘59 Lincoln Continental into an all-electric vehicle — but did anyone ever think he’d take that enthusiasm and turn it into a new album dedicated to the topic?"
• Harrison Ford, Prince Charles, Cate Blanchett To Star In New Rainforest Film - (Ecorazzi) "In a first for the British royal family, Prince Charles is set to join celebrities Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett in a new ad campaign to stop deforestation."

Website Stuff

• MyInauguralPhoto.com - Bummed out that you didn't get to go to DC and attend the inauguration? Well, this site will let you insert your photo into the front row at Obama's swearing in. It's just like you were there!
• EcoGoodies: the best eco webshops - Here's a site that rounds up the best in eco webshops and lets you review and share your shopping experience.
• It's My Party, and I'll Give if I Want To - (ecofabulous) Planning a child's birthday? Here's a site that let's "guests give a secure online gift of money to the charity your child selects."
• Huge Savings at Inhabitat Winter Sale! - (Inhabitat)
  

International Stuff

• The Charcoal Children of Manilla - (Environmental Graffiti) This is just heartbreaking.
  

Political & Social Stuff

• BREAKING: Obama Tax Breaks for Solar and Wind Approved - (Red, Green and Blue)

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Coca-Cola Opens Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Center - (Earthfirst)
• Go Green Expo Set To Rock Los Angeles This Weekend - (Ecorazzi) January 23-25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
• The real problem with fake grass - (Enviroblog) There's lead in it.
• Greywater Guerillas Make Rainwater Harvesting Easy - (EcoLocalizer)
• Governors Island Envisioned as Incredible Eco-Park - (Inhabitat) Check out this amazing proposal for Governors Island in New York.