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A Cool Tool for Choosing Backyard Chicken Breeds
As more people seek fresh, more healthful food and a sense of self-sufficiency, interest in keeping backyard chickens is growing. Chickens are the perfect "gateway" livestock, often showing would-b…
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A Burger With a Conscience?
The ethical line used to be pretty damn clear: either you abstained from eating meat and animal products thus honoring all living creatures, or you were an unabashed omnivore willing to cattle-prod yo…
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Meat Industry & Global Warming: What’s the Link?
Why Don't More People Make the Link Between Animal Agriculture and Climate Change? By Kamal Prasad and Marilyn Cornelius Scientific evidence that animal agriculture contributes significantly to…
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Can We Get Antibiotics Out of the Meat Industry?
I have a distinct memory from a few years back, when anti-bacterial soap and the like first became popularized, involving the Utopian promise of wiping out all bacteria (good and bad) from hands, feet…
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Vegan Lifestyle Fights Global Warming (video)
The biggest contribution we can make to fight global warming is to eat less meat and dairy products. Here are some facts from a 2006 United Nations Report: The U.S. population is about 300 mil…
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8 Reasons To Rock-On With Meat-Free Monday (with Paul McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow)
I don't generally get star struck, and food is not one of my writing niches, as the cook in the 'ol EcoNest is my husband, but when a Beatle and an Oscar-winning actress get involved in something I …
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Can Garlic Stop Climate Change?
From Ode Magazine Over 20 percent of methane gas, a greenhouse gas, is emitted by cows. There are about a billion cows in the world, and their methane emissions total more than the methane gas prod…
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Climate Change: It’s What’s for Dinner
We all know that driving a gas-guzzling SUV contributes to climate change, but did you know that what you put on your plate could too? Here’s how your food choices affect climate change and what you, …
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on The Simple Truth About Weight Loss
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Well, okay. Not especially helpful though.
on 3 Theories on Why Alzheimer’s Hits Women Harder Than Men
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Good idea, hope it works to make low cost energy. Would also help if people would try not to waste …
on Food Composting Comes to NYC
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Possibly very effective! Please --actions like this may need to be repeated -- probably about 8 time…
on ‘Oily Mary’ Cocktail for Royal Dutch Shell
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It was supposed to say "Do I really have to GO out!, etc. I so enjoyed everyone's comments!!!!
on Dog’s Lazy Day — Caption This Cute Photo!
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