Pick of the Crop

A Platteville, Colorado farm couple say they got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick free vegetables left over after the harvest."Forty thousand people showed up. Joe and...

ACLU wants prisons to become polling places

"There are few radical left-wing organizations more obnoxious than the American Civil Liberties Union. That’s because the ACLU doesn’t just pack a tie-dyed Volkswagen full of leftover San Fransisco hippies and drive to your area to protest, they pack a private jet full...

Megawaste to megawatts

Anaerobic digesters have been on the backburner essentially because of their reliance on animal slurry that has had urban communities turning their nose up at the idea even though welcoming it in principle....

Evo Morales: give food to people not cars

Making a stand on world food crisis Bolivian President Evo Morales suggested limited use of bio-fuel production. Morales stated food were first meant for people. Only left over were to be used as bio-fuel. "Evo said agricultural products were for human being and not for...

Government launches leftover plea to fight world food shortage

A new report on the growing global food crisis will call for people in developed countries to stop throwing away edible leftovers."FAMILIES can help ease world food shortages by being less wasteful, a Government report will claim today. As Gordon Brown arrives at the G8...

Indonesian homemakers turn trash into fashion frills

Interesting way to do a business... " Used detergent labels and toothpaste tubes from Indonesia are going from landfills to fashion frills on bags and wallets sold in Singapore, Australia and the United States. ...

Today is Love a Tree Day!

Today is Love a Tree Day!  Trees are very important for the environment.  Planting a tree can be one of the most efficient ways to remove excess levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, therefore...

Ban bread as bird food - it does more harm than good

Apparently spending a lazy afternoon in the park feeding the birds and lying on the grass is not a great way to spend the day. Bread should be banned as a bird food because it is unhealthy and dangerous and can...

The Point of No Return for Immigration Reform: The Proof is in the Pizza

"By now, we've all heard of the special promotion that a Dallas, Texas-based pizza chain called Pizza Patron, was doing. For a limited time, they are allowing their customers, who are primarily Latinos, to pay for their pizza orders with pesos. The rationale behind the...

Hungry? 10 Jobs That Let You Sample Food

"Most of us sample plenty of food during our work weeks -- leftover pasta from working lunches, mousse cakes from baby showers, and fistfuls of miniature candy bars from a co-worker's candy jar. While some of us are content with eating bags and bags of chips, these 10 jobs...

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