Another good reason to go vegetarian: the bitchin’ kitchen accessories. Art director/visual artist Chris Rubino has designed a clever, cute plate especially for the herbivorous among us, featuring a menagerie of wildlife that are better to look at than to eat. Plop down a nice salad, or maybe some vegetarian moussaka, and you’ve got the […]

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Currently, we produce more garbage than stuff, but it doesn’t have to be that way; read up on going zero waste.
Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their information technology.
Ekyog, the French ethical clothing label
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As we’ve noted before, the building boom along Mexico’s coasts does not bode well for biosphere reserves and threatened species in this country of incredible biodiversity. But we were surprised to learn that Mexico now invests close to four dollars per hectare in conservation, matching Costa Rica, the highest spender in Latin America, in terms […]

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Reminscent of the Teastick (no spaces), the Tea Stick is a clever spring-loaded gadget perfect for brewing up a cup of tea without the muss and fuss of a pesky tea bag.
Many tea aficionados will tell you that loose-leaf tea is the only way to go when brewing yourself; now you can do it in […]

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If listening to a whole lot of people talk about solving climate change is wearing thin on you too, take a look at this video put together by the group “EnoughsEnough” that gives a child’s-eye view of how easy solving the problem could be in theory.
Of course nothing in the real world is ever as […]

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If you’re involved with the legal field or expect to one day serve on a jury you just may find yourself coming up an intriguing defense in the future, lead poisoning. It turns out that there’s a growing body of research linking the level of lead in the blood of preschoolers with crime rates later […]

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Zeitgeist means “the spirit of the age.” What is the spirit that is catching our readers? We start a new feature where we review the most popular posts of the month, as calculated by Google Analytics. We add a little frisson of fun by scoring the month, counting the number of posts that get more […]

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Here’s a carbon offsetting regime that looks similar in structure to the 1930’s-era “Conservation Reserve” program, where US farmers were awarded financial incentives by the government to put erosive lands back in grass or forest cover. Two big differences with this new one: financial backing is by a European bank that hopes to […]

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Eight watts. That’s with processor and SDRAM running full tilt. Add the 8″ LCD monitor at 12 Watts and a folding solar panel and you have a complete off-grid Linux puppy for £499. It was developed for the third world as “a collaborative, open source project of vast possibilities and a highly focused process to […]

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