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Are you inadvertently eating your cookware? (Part 2)
We continue looking at the cookware you use to raise awareness of the health risks associated with their use.
Are you inadvertently eating your cookware? (Part 1)
When you cook something, microscopic amounts of the material your cookware is made of may leach into the food and enter your body. Are some types of cookware better than others from a health perspective?
Armchair Activisim - Buy Me a River
Get Up has a new campaign calling for decisive action to save the ailing Murray-Darling river system. The river is in crisis with prolonged drought and climate change precipitating (pun - ha!) record low inflows.
Forest loss costs us more than collapse of banking system.
An EU study reports that the losses experienced by the Global Economy due to the current banking crisis pale in comparison to the annual cost of deforestation.
EnviroMom.com
I've discovered this brilliant site for EarthMums - EnviroMom.com. It's just bulging with fabulous articles for mums and dads who are trying to raise environmentally conscious kids and manage healthy households.
Live lightly in luscious lingerie.
I used to have good underwear just for special occasions, but being the hedonist that I am, I decided life was too short for days spent in ugly undies. So now I wear nice underwear, matching sets, everyday. And you can too. For the eco-sexual EarthMum, there are beautiful pieces produced by sustainable practises.
Utahns shrink the work-week to save on carbon
Courtesy of Grist - for the next year, Government agencies in Utah are trialing a four-day work-week in an effort to cut energy consumption in buildings and fuel expenditure associated with employee commutes and to reduce associated carbon emissions.
Low tech refrigeration changes the lives of women in Nigerian rural communities
An inspiring story - the Pot-in-Pot cooler, a low-tech invention has improved the lives of people in poor Nigerian farming communities, particularly the womenfolk. But it's not just seen as an invention to benefit the third world's poor - westerners are considering its use as a climate-friendly alternative to conventional methods of food preservation.
More green ways to get going - water fueled cars.
Yay! The transportation gods have heeded my prayer for a cheap, clean, and efficient automobile. Here's a video of a concept car that runs on water.