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10 Ways to Be More Green
Helping to change the world isn't that hard. It begins with these small acts that become habits. As they gain momentum, soon you're not doing just one thing; you're revolutionizing your life in a way that can, in fact, save the planet.
Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit
by Bill Maher// http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/24-8 How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to our nation that they were exempt from market pressures. Some things we just didn't do for money.America’s Unhealthiest Restaurants (Eat this, Not That)
America’s Unhealthiest Restaurants by David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding a Yahoo! Health Expert for Nutrition http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/26542/americas-unhealthiest-restaurants Your favorite fast food restaurant is often like your favorite city: Visit some neighborhoods and you live the high life. Visit others and you’re just plain asking for trouble.Providers to the poor try to stretch meager resources to meet growing need
SEATTLE - As snowstorms blew into this Northwest city and the economy iced over in December, the occupants of a shelter nestled among industrial buildings on the north side prayed for divine intervention. “We were hoping for the Christmas miracle,” says Glen Dennis, 41, who was working his way through a residential drug-treatment program at the CityTeam Ministries shelter. Dennis and the other 11 guys in the long-term program —dubbed the “disciples” — also worked each day to prepare for some 50 to 60 overnight shelter guests, and dish up free hot meals to about 100 people.America's Healthiest Restaurants
David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding - Posted on Mon, Mar 02, 2009, 12:37 pm PST Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit-down or drive-thru? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust?Cooking with my Grandmothers
So I was with the grandmothers today so I could finally learn how to cook Haitian and Vietnamese meals. I learned how to make Griot, which is a staple Haitian meal that's made with Fried Plantains, Fried chunks of pork and it's served with something called Pikleze, which is basically a really spicy coleslaw, and rice & beans. I also learned how to make Vietnamese Spring Rolls, Beef Noodle Pho, and Go Ro Ti.
Look Out its the Incredible Bulk, Statezilla, Governmentuan
Latest superhero of Big Government replaces Bailoutman, Mister Stimulus and Captain Recovery By Mark Steyn The superheroes I always found hard to keep track of were the ones who kept relaunching themselves. I mean, Batman's been Batman for 70 years and Spider-Man's been Spider-Man for the best part of 50. But I'm thinking of chaps like Ant-Man.Full list of Grammy winners
Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say” Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter” Best New Artist: Adele Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman” Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida” Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay” Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer) Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse” Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra” Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire” Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity” Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida” Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements” Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War” Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood) Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E.Oh today was "cheat day" for the ABS Diet
and it did not go well. Every week I have to schedule one "cheat meal" in my cheat day. I am thinking of dumping this day altogether.My Eco-Favorites! Fair Trade Coffee
Ethical Bean is a great coffee roaster: A bit about the company from their website:
We believe in global responsibility. Ethical Bean purchases only Certified Fair Trade and Certified Organic coffees. It is important to us that coffee farmers are paid a living wage for their efforts, and that they can afford the basic necessities of life, like food, shelter, education and health care.
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