TED Talks- Blue Zones
I found out about these Blue Zones a month or so ago. Went on the expedition with them to a Greek Island (virtually), read the info on their website, was
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Category: blues from a red state
Wall Street Must Be Clueless—Bonuses At Big 3 Set To Be $30 Billion
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this
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Ground Beef Recall Expanded – Slashfood
Another reason to change our methods… A ground beef recall for more than 545,699 pounds of meat has been expanded to states from North Carolina to Maine on fears of
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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman
To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.
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Corporate “Free Speech”, or The Buying Of America.
It’s understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the
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Monarch Butterfly Reserve – Another Victim of Climate Change?
The world’s largest reserve for migrating Monarch butterflies, located in the Mexican highlands, is suffering from an infestation of bark beetles similar to outbreaks that have killed millions of acres
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Global Warming? Climate Change?
The globe recorded its second warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The combined global land and ocean temperature anomaly was 0.62°C
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Just For The “Record”…
Record heat is forecast for today in the Houston area, but by late this afternoon or early evening a blast of cooler Canadian air is expected to drop temperatures through
