• Zoo Babies to Hug and Squeeze!

    The closest many of us will come to adorable zoo babies is checking them out in pics, but you can give a whole book full of those adorable images while also supporting animal conservation. ZooBorns is one of my favorite websites. And now they’ve published a new book, ZooBorns In case you’re not familiar, ZooBorns…

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  • Blog Action Day: Biggest Killer Is Lack of Water!

    Don’t worry so much over war or hunger, the thing that’s killing more people than anything else is lack of water and basic sanitation. Of course, we need to act on many issues, including poverty and diseases without cures, but it’s water that should be tugging at your heart. Perhaps you live in the U.S.…

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  • Say Farewell to SunChips Compostable Bag

    It’s finally happened. All the complaining about the loud SunChips compostable bag has led to its untimely death. Frito Lay is discontinuing the bag, but they say they’re looking for the next generation of compostable bag — a much softer-sounding generation, I’m sure. Read more at the Grist SunChips post. Do you think Frito Lay…

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  • Gain Greeness the Easy Way

    If you stop wasting food, you can be a green god. (And save money.) That’s what scientists* are suggesting. The facts on how food waste affects oil use: The United States wasted the equivalent of around 350 million barrels of oil (2030 trillion BTU of energy) in 2007 — all cause we poured unused food…

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  • Eat at Chili’s and Help Kids Today

    Eat at Chili’s today. They’re donating all profits to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! Find your Chili’s and chill with some good food.

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