The Hormone Diet: Mysterious Issues? It Could Be A Hidden Food Intolerance
Eat Your Dandelions! The Wild Medicine Solution Suggests Simple Garden Remedies
Blisstree Fitness Models: Round 2 Of Our Writers, Readers & Friends In Their Real Workout Clothes
Golden Age Hollywood Actresses Were Tiny, Curvy And Facing Just As Much Body Pressure As Today
Red Lipstick Doesn’t Make Me Loose! Ladies Mouth Off On Lip Color
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With every new technological innovation, more and more electronics become obsolete and unused. A big problem? We need to dispose of our old desktops, tube TVs, and CD players. Click on the infographic to find out what we’re doing with our e-waste versus what could be happening. More
Sometimes all it takes to get people to start caring about the planet is to scare the hell out of them. At least, that’s what David Lynch thought with his super-creepy anti-littering PSA. Check out the video: More
– Dr. Naheed Ali, author of Are You Fit to Live? and Diabetes and You: A Holistic Approach, from his Blisstree post on the medical and physical effects of swimming in oil-contaminated waters
Twenty-three years ago, the Montreal Protocol was signed, which limited and eventually banned CFCs and other substances that were creating a massive hole in the ozone layer. Today, UN scientists have revealed that the hole has stopped growing, and that the ozone should be fully restored by the middle of the century. More
China’s National Highway 110 outside Beijing. Nothing was moving for more than 60 miles. Drivers were playing board games in the middle of the highway. And all involved were lucky, because the tie-up was actually supposed to last for more than a month. Blame road construction and freight traffic for this vehicular madness. Oh, and the fact that there are a lot of people in China. More
The next time a giant corporation practices gross negligence that results in a devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (or anywhere else), we’ll be prepared. MIT’s Senseable City Lab has developed Seaswarm — a fleet of high-tech robots … More
Funny Cat Video Alert! – Winston Bananas is a handsome cat with a sugar pot lid on his head who’s being videotaped while trying to catnap. Understandably, he’s annoyed. Wouldn’t you be? (Gawker TV)
10 Easy Energy Boosters – And none of them involve illegal drugs. If even half of these work, we’ll be high on life. (Shine)
4 Vices That Are Good For You…Really! – You had us at “4 Vices.” (Vitamin G)
Off-Roading Wheelchairs – Donated to Haiti earthquake victims with spinal injuries. This is so good it made us cry. (GOOD)
10 Endangered Vacation Spots – Say it ain’t so! And, we don’t actually like this, but you know what we mean. (The Daily Green) More
More than 50,000 tons of boon and other debris from the BP oil spill is being put in landfills or incinerators — and that’s only about 7% of the total waste that will end up in landfills, according to The Huffington … More
We know that global warming is destroying polar bears’ habitats. But, more importantly, what is it doing to their personal lives?
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Spike Lee’s new, follow-up documentary about the repercussions in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Katrina, as well as this year’s BP oil spill starts screening this week, and environmentalist and activist Brad Pitt is doing interviews as part of … More
There’s no question that the oil disaster in the Gulf will have long-term effects on the environment, but people are starting to wonder: What about the health effects of all that oil-contaminated water? From harming our seafood to raising the risk of cancer, everyone’s concerned with how the oil spill fallout will affect our health in years to come. So we asked Dr. Naheed Ali, author of Are You Fit to Live? and Diabetes and You: A Holistic Approach, about the medical and physical effects of swimming in oil-contaminated water.
There are serious and potential health hazards from swimming in oil-contaminated waters (shocking). Here’s what you could expect to happen if you took a daily swim in the Gulf right now: More
What the hell is wrong with the water in the Delaware Bay? The New Jersey E.P.A is performing tests on the oxygen levels of the water, but they still don’t know what caused tens of thousands of fish to wash … More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has an educational page on its website, where there are instructions for a “Drilling for Oil Game.” The game involves putting shoe polish at the bottom of a box, filling the … More
If You Were in a Good Mood, Sorry: Check out ten visions of what a post-apocalyptic earth will be like. New York actually looks pretty idyllic, aside from the whole “no-humans” part. (via Ecorazzi)
