LocalHarvest Web Site
The LocalHarvest web site helps you “find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area” and contains a lot of good information on this topic.
Author: spunkycarol
Deconstructing Buffalo: Reusing Materials from Abandoned Houses
I think the most amazing sentence in this story is that there are 10,000 abandoned houses in Buffalo.
via TreeHugger on Aug 13, 2007
“There are 10,000 abandoned houses in Buffalo, New York; instead of just wrecking them, non-profit Buffalo ReUse is taking them apart and selling the materials and components.”
The Paper Alarm Clock
via TreeHugger on Aug 13, 2007
“Designer Miquel Mora looks at the new techniques of printing electronics and wonders “What if we could ‘enhance’ paper instead of getting rid of it? What if we could merge the printed world with the digital one?”
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Passing of Brooke Astor
The passing of a truly amazing and inspiring woman.
New York Socialite Brooke Astor Dies at 105
Her words to live by: “Power, for me, is the ability to do good things for others,” she once told Harper’s Bazaar magazine. “I have the means to do it, thanks to Vincent’s money, and the act of giving makes me powerful inside. I would tell anyone, if you have enough money for three meals a day and you’re not too busy, you ought to do something for others.”
Busy News Day for Freaky Animal Stories
the trees start dying from the top down, then animals begin to turn on humans…
First up: the story about the feeding frenzy that happens when the owner of 130 cats brings in the Kibbles & Bits
Next, the story about the woman who strangled a rabid racoon
There was another animal story I saw at one point but I couldnt find it when I went back to look (and can’t remember what it was) but I did find this elephant story from last month.
Return of the radioactive boy scout
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 08, 2007
Mark Frauenfelder: A couple of years ago, Rudy Rucker posted an entry about the boy scout who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his garden shed. Years later, he’s been caught again trying to do the same thing.
Now, it seems as if he has yet to learn his lesson, as he has been busted once again, this time for stealing smoke detectors in an effort to experiment with radioactive materials.
10 Things
From the “Inconvenient Truth” web site, a list of 10 things to help solve the climate crisis (don’t print it, though!)
http://images.rodale.com/readthetruth/pdfs/readthetruth-checklist.pdf
Weird treadmill may help stroke survivors
via MSNBC.com: Health on Aug 06, 2007
A weird treadmill is pushing people at a Baltimore research hospital into sloppy versions of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, in hopes of training stroke survivors and others with brain injuries to walk normally again.
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Art Masterpieces Stolen in France
via washingtonpost.com – World News and Analysis From The Washington Post by Molly Moore on Aug 06, 2007
PARIS, Aug. 6 — Five armed, masked thieves sprinted into an art museum on the French Riviera during opening hours Sunday afternoon, snatched a Claude Monet and three other masterpieces off the walls, stuffed them in bags and made their get-aways by motorcyle and car, French authorities said Monday. Visit the original item