Stuff We Found Today - 06.06.13

Floating Mangrove Forest Springs Up in a Wrecked Coal Ship

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Exposed: Lung Cancer Risks from Fracked Natural Gas in NYC Kitchens - (EcoWatch)
• Conventional Feminine Hygiene Products: A Women’s Issue With Toxic Implications - (NaturallySavvy.com) Yeah... ladies, do we really want toxin/chemical laced "things" up in and around our nether regions???

Food Stuff

• 10 Ways To Use Up Old Spices - (Earth 911.com) Love the idea for making kids paints...they'll have just as much fun making them as using them!
• Don't throw out that pickle juice - (Mother Nature Network) Turns out you can use it for all sorts of things.

Home Stuff

• 12 Ways to Upcycle Thrifted Furniture - (Earth911.com) Some great ideas for all you DIYers.
• The Coolest Thing To Hang On Your Wall: DIY Wood Block Photos (GirlieGirlArmy.com) - another fun DIY project to try out!
• Tetris-Like Micro House Can be Stacked to Form Expanded Housing Suites - (Inhabitat) How cool to plop one of these into your backyard for an instant guest house?!
• Incredible Treehouse Built by Grandparents Features Amazing Antique Details - (Inhabitots) Wow!!

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• How to Go Nontoxic at the Salon - (Green America) Some things to consider the next time you get your hair or nails done.
• Orange Fiber: A High-Fashion Textile Derived From Citrus Waste - (Ecouterre)
• 15 Major Retailers That Haven't Signed the Bangladesh Safety Agreement - (Ecouterre)

Tech & Science Stuff

• Eighteen-Year-Old Invents Device That Can Charge Your Cell Phone in 20 Seconds - (Inhabitat) Love smart kids!
• MindDrive: World's First Social Media Powered Electric Car is Fueled by Tweets and Likes - (Inhabitat) Created to engage at-risk youth by giving them the skills to build an electric vehicle. This is such a cool program!! Be sure to watch the video!
• Student Science Experiment Shows Plants Won’t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router - (Inhabitots) ...uhhh, guess that means it's not healthy for us!

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Coastal Cleanup 2012: Top 10 Items Found During Trash Collection Program - (Huffington Post) Of course, 7 of the 10 are plastic related.
• The weirdest square mile of ocean on Earth - (Washington Post) Video of some cool, strange, deadly sea creatures.
• Floating Mangrove Forest Springs Up in a Wrecked Coal Ship - (Inhabitat) Hmmm...eventually, nature prevails.
• Internet Mogul Sean Parker Trashes Big Sur Redwood Forest to Create a Fantasy Wedding - (Inhabitat) The arrogance of some people...
• Conservationist shares home with 200 sloths - (Mother Nature Network) They are so cute!
• Beautiful Close-Up Underwater Photos of Luminous Sea Creatures - (PetaPixel) Cool to look at.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan gives up fame and fortune to become a farmer - (Mother Nature Network) ...and he's creating sustainable farming while helping veterans get back to work - awesome!! 

Stuff We Found Today - 03.12.13

Meat causes 18% of all greenhouse gas emmisions...

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Biodegradable Wooden Lego Bricks Stack Up To Sustainable Play - (Inhabitots) Finally something other than plastic!
• The World's First Seat Belt Designed Especially For Pregnant Women - (Inhabitots) About time!!!

Food Stuff

• Japanese Restaurant Fines Diners For Not Finishing Their Meals - (Inhabitat) Maybe not such a bad idea considering how much we waste.
• Energy bars you can make at home - (Mother Nature Network) Easy to do and perfect snacks for the kiddies' lunchboxes!
• Monsanto's Seeds of Deception [video] - (YouTube) GMO seeds...toxic to bugs, toxic to us.

Home Stuff

• Gorgeous Studio Completely Wrapped in Living Plants - (Inhabitat) How cool to have this for a home office space, play space, anything?!!

Tech & Science Stuff

• Volkswagen Confirms Production Plans For the 261 MPG XL1 Plug-in Hybrid! - (Inhabitat) Wonder what the sticker price will be.
• The 3D-Printed Urbee 2 Hybrid Car is Light, Strong, and Nearing Production - (Inhabitat)
• Stick-On Solar Cells that can Power Your iPad - (Inhabitat) So awesome for working outdoors.
• Hyundai Unveils the World's First Production Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle! - (Inhabitat)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Japanese Macaque Monkeys - (Mother Nature Network) Just a great pic.
• Indian man single-handeldy plants a 1,360-acre forest - (Mother Nature Network) Pretty amazing.
• Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket supplier's plastic - (The Guardian) "Sperm whale on Spanish southern coast had swallowed 17kg of plastic waste dumped by greenhouses supplying produce to UK"...lovely.
• Where has all the ice gone? - (TreeHugger) "...seas are projected to rise nearly 2 meters (6 feet), inundating coastal cities worldwide, such as New York, London, and Cairo."

International Stuff

• Wind Power Surpasses Nuclear Energy in China - (Inhabitat) No, they're not the greenest country in the world, but at least progress is being made.
• London to be an 'ultra-low emission zone' by 2020 - (Mother Nature Network) "London Mayor Boris Johnson is proposing that only electric cars and other unspecified green vehicles be admitted downtown..."
• World's First Algae-Powered Building Opens This Month in Germany - (Inhabitat)

Stuff We Found Today - 01.29.13

Valentine crafts for kids

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Valentine's Crafts for Kids - (Parenting.com) Some great ideas to do with kids...love the paper heart wreath and the heart paper clips. So clever!

Food Stuff

• Blue colors in lollipops present health risk to kids, say researchers - (ConfectioneryNews.com) "Health risks of these dyes are mainly attributed to their inhibitory effects on mitochondrial respiration of human cells." No artificial colors in our food please!!
• Bubble Gum Flavored Apples Hit Grocery Store Shelves - (Inhabitots) WTF!!!!
• Sustainable cocoa: Action needed in two years, not ten - (ConfectioneryNews.com)
• Flaxseed: How to Use This Wonder Ingredient - (MindBodyGreen) Always forget how easy it is to add this stuff to cooking, especially when ground.

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Top 7 Bizarre Eco-Fashion Stores of 2012 - (Ecouterre) Yup, some of these are crazy.
• "Good Morning America" Finds Traces of Lead in 55 Percent of Lipsticks - (Ecouterre)

Tech & Science Stuff

• Yeti 150: Goal Zero Unveils A Plug-And-Play solar Generator For Emergencies Or Off-Grid Adventures - (Inhabitat) Love this for camping!
• Ingenious 14 Year-Old Invents Solar-Powered Water Purification System for Developing World - (Inhabitat) Love smart kids!!
• Altoids Tin DIY Solar USB Charger - (Instructables) Cool project!
• The ELF: A Half-Bike, Half-Car Solar and Pedal-Powered Urban Vehicle by Organic Transit - (Inhabitat) Would love to try this.
• New Report Finds that Solar Power Could Serve All of the World's Energy Needs - (Inhabitat)

School, College & Student Stuff

• 10 of the best college environmental programs in the U.S. - (Mother Nature Network)
• Headmaster Upcycles Retired Passenger Plane Into Playful Kindergarten Classroom - (Inhabitots) What little kid wouldn't want a classroom like this?

Nature & Environment Stuff

• 2012 Was the Hottest Year Ever for the Contiguous United States - (Inhabitat) Hello climate change!
• Dazzling comet of 2013 may be among brightest ever seen - (Mother Nature Network) "Comet ISON could put on an amazing show when it passes close to the sun in November." Mark your calendars!
• 7 reasons why Arctic sea ice matters - (Mother Nature Network) Just in case you didn't know...
• Sperm Whales Adopt Deformed Dolphin - (ScienceMag.com) Animal friendship...love.
• 2012 The Year The Climate Changed [VIDEO] - (Eco Tube) "2012 may be remembered as the year Climate Change got real for Americans."

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Mind-Blowing Paper Sculptures Look Like Gothic Cathedral Windows - (Inhabitat)

International Stuff

• Amazing Tetra Brik Pavilion Made with 45,000 Milk Cartons Wins Guinness World Record - (Inhabitat) Built in Spain to honor World Recycling Day.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Nation's Second Largest Bike Share Program Coming to Los Angeles This Spring - (Inhabitat) Curious to see how well this goes.

Stuff We Found Today - 06.07.12

Solar-Powered Floating Green Resort

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Top 10 Toxins Suspected of Causing Autism - (Care2 Healthy Living)
• Top 10 Baby Registries for Green Moms-to-Be - (Inhabitots)
• Traces of Veterinary Drugs Found in Baby Food and Infant Formula - (Inhabitots) Great... another reason to buy organic, especially for your kids. After all, we eat what our foods eat!

Food Stuff

• Eating Chocolate Will Protect You From Skin Cancer - (GirlieGirl Army) Well, life just got a little better!

Home Stuff

• Verdant PicNYC Table is topped with Living Growing Grass - (Inhabitat) Like having a picnic in your dining room!
• Ryosuke Fukusada's Glowing  LED Wooden Light Bulb - (Inhabitat) Pretty cool.
• Sweden's Treehotel Now Selling Mirrorcube Treehouses - (Inhabitat) Now you can order one for yourself and have it installed in your backyard... haha!

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• 10 Infographics on the Fashion Industry - (EcoSalon) These are interesting...especially the one that illustrates how much textile waste America generates each year.
• Gross or Glorious? Kerry Howley Turns Human Hair into Intricate Necklaces - (Ecouterre) Definitely artistic, but a little creepy.
• 14 Eco-Friendly Sunglasses to Protect Your Peepers - (Ecouterre)

Tech & Science Stuff

• 3D-Printed LED Lamps - (Inhabitat) These are so cool looking.

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Canada's tar sands could mean "Game Over for the Climate" - (NYTimes.com) "If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now."
• [Video] Watch the Whole World Connect the Dots - (350.org) Climate change and extreme weather around the world.
• Arctic Seawater Leaking Methane: Big Pic - (Discovery News) Oh, just lovely...
• World's First Vegetarian Shark Prefers Heads of Lettuce - (TreeHugger) Apparently the trauma of getting a fish hook lodged in it's stomach was enough to scare this shark into never going after meat again.
• Fukushima Radiation Found in Bluefin Tuna in Calif. - (Time.com)
• Mo'ynoq's Desert Ships Are a Testament of Man's Impact on the Environment - (Inhabitat)

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Solar-Powered Floating Island is an Off-Shore Green Retreat - (Inhabitat) Now this is houseboating in style!

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• International Cocoa Initiative partners with ILO to tackle child labour on cocoa farms - (ConfectioneryNews.com) Well, it's something.

Other Random Cool Stuff

• L.A. makes history with ban on plastic bags at stores - (LA Times) "Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines..." Cool!
• Survival Condo's Apocalypse-Proof Bunder Are Now Sold Out - (Inhabitat) Seriously????!!!