Cilantro is quite the versatile plant. Not only can it kick up your salsa, but it shows promise as an inexpensive method of removing toxic heavy metals (such as lead) in contaminated water. In fact, research conducted by Ivy Community College undergraduates under the direction of Douglas Schauer, PhD. with scientists at the Universidad Politécnica […]
5 Animals That Have Gone Extinct in the last 10 Years
Welcome guest poster, Steve Waller of Green Steve. Photo source: Kromatic. There’s no surer sign of mankind’s failure as the planet’s chief custodian than when a species becomes extinct as a consequence of our activity. Though there are numerous famous examples throughout history of species being wiped out at the hands of humans, we’ve yet to take […]
Earthquake 2011. East Coast Style. Did the Earth Move For You?
Over the last month, New Jersey has experienced an earthquake, and got blasted by Hurricane Irene. I feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz with all the freaky weather and hoping my house doesn’t fall on the Wicked Witch of the West. We all know how that story played out. But I wanted to […]
Bee Sting Home Remedies. Take the Bite Out of the Sting
Yesterday, I tackled the unimaginable. Garden #1. My garden looks like a madwoman lives there. Oregano had gone wild invading every nook and cranny. (One my invasive thug plants even Tony Soprano hates.) Grass, clover, and a bunch of no name weeds are everywhere. At this point, I can’t even find my vegetables. And […]
Confessions of a Lifelong Vegetarian: Why I Decided to Go Vegan
When I was four years old, my mother decided that she didn’t want to cook meat anymore because she loved animals too much. She didn’t understand why it was accepted to eat cows, pigs, and chickens but not other animals—after all, weren’t they just as worthy of their lives? After some deliberation, she stopped purchasing […]
Learning from the Whale Could Change our Industrial Process
I usually do not post on Saturday, but this short video about how we as a society could a learn from whales just took my breath away. Gunther Pauli narrates this short video. It is only a one and one-half minute video that brings home the theme that if we could just learn what Mother […]
BP Clean up the F’in Gulf says UnF’ktheGulf.com
There is nothing like a great video that tells it like it is on a Monday morning. UnF–kTheGulf.com says it all. Kind of like a cup of Joe to get the blood running through your body. In this case, F’in mad blood since our gulf is running black not blue because BP can’t shut the […]
PACE Financing, Hybrid Tankless Heaters, Green News for 7.05.2010
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Welcome to this week’s edition of Green News via my email box. Loads of great green articles this week. In the first article that I posted, Readers, please vote for Lisa of Condo Blues as the First Salada Green Tea Spokeperson. She is a fellow Green Mom Carnival participant, friend, […]