By Brandon Griggs and Jeff King

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You’d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point.

De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.

Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.  Read full article »

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Much High Fructose Corn Syrup Contaminated With Mercury, New Study Finds
Brand-Name Food Products Also Discovered to Contain Mercury

Minneapolis – Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples
of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient—including products by Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smucker’s.

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However the Cambridge University based Centre for Gallium Nitride has developed a new way of making GaN which could produce LEDs for a tenth of current prices.  Read Full Article

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It’s time to replace that tangled string of holiday lights with something better — LEDs. LED — which stands for light-emitting diode — lights are small, long-lasting and up to 90 percent more efficient than incandescent bulbs. LED strings come in all shapes and colors and are incredibly efficient – so you can light up your yard without fear of the electricity bill in January. These bright little ‘bulbs’ last up to 60,000 hours — five times longer than compact fluorescents and 50 to 60 times the lifespan of an incandescent bulb.

LEDs use so little energy that some don’t have to be plugged in at all, relying on solar or a single battery for power.

I’ve personally switched many of my strands to the LED’s & I really like them!  The colors are beautiful!

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Magazine Gift Bows

Click here for the tutorial… Too cool!

Don’t have the time to make bows, but want an eco friendly alternative to plastic gift ribbon?

Shop for biodegradable cotton curling ribbon here.

Biodegradable Holiday Stripe Curling Ribbon

Unlike the plastic ribbons these ribbon are not made from petroleum products & are completely biodegradable, which means they can even be composted

They are made from cotton fiber strands, dyed with soy inks and have a springy texture making them very versatile plus they are made in the USA!

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Atmospheric brown clouds, formed by the burning of fossil fuels, biofuels, wood and plants, absorb sunlight and heat the air, experts write in the study released today in Beijing.

The clouds also mask the actual warming impact of climate change by anywhere between 20 and 80 percent because they include sulfates and other chemicals which reflect sunlight and cool the surface, according to the report.   read full story