photo: lacp.orgFor Californians, June 8, 2010, primary day, is quickly approaching. As it does advertisements are flooding radio and TV about Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown and Proposition 16. Proposition 16 has been labeled by proponents as the "Taxpayers Right to Vote Act," but as TreeHugger readers know, names can often be misleading. Opponents have labeled the measure the "Monopoly Protection Act.'
Credit: Flickr via Ian Webb.You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American Academy of Dermatology. The most sun-dumb? Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Three Mile Island. Image credit:WIkipediaI'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in all the scenarios, a very weak decision only in one, and so on. The Big Picture blog has a wonderful article, called Oil Slickonomics, in which thre
Image credit: Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon/University of IdahoThey said that it spit in self defense. They said it smelled like lilies when handled. They said it grew to be over three feet long. They said it was extinct. But a recent discovery of the Giant Palouse Earthworm has dispelled all of these myths—and is helping researchers and conservations gain basic knowledge about the elusive specie
Green tea flavored Guava Cactus Mask and detoxifying Cranberry Mud Mask. Photo by Neeta Lind Lead on my lips and mercury on my eyelashes, carcinogenic and endocrine disruptive creams on my skin. We have a long history of doing dangerous things in the name of beauty. The Egyptians applied copper for skin tone, Romans used chal...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image from the Evening StandardA year ago, Innocent drinks, the little British smoothie business that grew and grew, sold 18% of their company to Coca Cola for £30M. Started up by three young students a decade before, they were adamant that their principles would not change with the sale.While some were sceptical about the sale of an ethical healthy smoothie business to Coke...Read the full stor
Image credit: Frank Glaw150 million years ago, a supercontinent—comprised of most of the landmass that now makes up the southern hemisphere—known as Gondwana began to split apart. Along the way, Madagascar broke free from India and, according to new genetic research, ancient blind snakes hopped aboard for the ride....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image credit: GoodKnowing what should be done to make your office a more environmentally friendly place, it's easy to let your enthusiasm take over—at the expense of your co-workers' patients. To help out, Good has compiled a quick set of tips for "going green at the workplace without driving your co-workers nuts."...Read the full story on TreeHugger
photo: Enricco Strocchi via flickr.You read it right. Later today at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce new plans to expand offshore oil drilling in several areas of the country. Obviously the exact details will be forthcoming, but the New York Times, the
Photo via FlickrAs anyone who has ever left an open can of soda out too long knows, some things are just better with a little fizz, and the world's oceans may be no exception. One physicist from Harvard University thinks that he's found a solution that may help curb the rate of global warming--and it comes in the form of tiny bubbles pumped into our planets ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
