Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees

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The Search For Local Organic Food In The Arizona Desert, Or Shell-Shocked California Girl Goes Foraging in Phoenix

Photo by cogdogblog Locally raised organic food — it’s what anyone who wants to eat the healthiest foods with the smallest environmental footprint hunts for, right?

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So Why Can’t We Bother to Buy Carbon Offsets for Our Flights?

photo: jon smith via flickr If you buy a carbon offset for the flights you take, you’re in a small minority–at least according to a new survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority carried out at Stansted airport last September. As reported by The Guardian , only 7% of flyers surveyed bothered to buy at offs…

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The Secret Life of the Sun (Slideshow)

Photo via MinnPost We rely on the sun for everything from powering up our electronics to basic heat and warmth for survival, but this massive star does more than just send light our way: It’s a huge nuclear reactor with explosions, eruptions, storms, and magnetic fields that affect both itself and Earth.

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China’s 45 Billion Disposable Chopsticks Require 100 Acres of Forests Every 24 Hours

Photo: Flickr , CC That’s a Lot of Chopsticks Apparently China’s Ministry of Commerce has had it with disposable chopsticks.

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Egg Co-ops Take Community Gardens to a Whole New Level

photo: Sara Novak Yesterday’s piece on salmonella shown a pretty negative shadow on our nation’s egg producing industry. The recent salmonella outbreak is a clear example of the downfalls of an out of control globalized food system.

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Salmonella, What it Actually is and How You Can Avoid Getting Sick

photo: Sara Novak You’ve likely heard about the latest salmonella scare . This time it revolves around eggs, 550 billion of them in all . Nearly 2,000 people in 17 states have already gotten sick as a result of the recent outbreak

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Tequila Industry to Tackle Its Huge Waste Problem?

Image credit: GreenHouse International & Mickou (Creative Commons) No sooner do we hear that the Scots have developed a biofuel from whisky distillery byproducts , that the tequila industry announces it wants in on the waste-to-energy act too. This is not without good reason— the growth of the tequila indus..

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Prettiest Travelling Bike Ever. But At What Price?

images from Wallpaper* Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things.

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Vanishing of the Bees: Film Documents Ongoing Honeybee Decline (Video)

Image credit: Vanishing Bees Honeybees have had a hard time of late. Yet while Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was all over the news last year, this year the media have found other crises to focus on. Sadly, that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away—in fact, Planet 100 reported only this week that h oneybee colonies are continuing to disappear at alarming rates

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