Momentum: 2012

The Book That Changed The World |EMagazine.com Excellent article full of insight about Rachel Carson, the polluted Pittsburgh she had lived in for decades, changing times and context. Read it.

Sep 20, 2012

Finding outdoor art in New England — by bike

Finding outdoor art in Maine — by bike

Sep 19, 2012

Is It the Diet, the Exercise, or Both that reverse cancer cell growth?

Is It the Diet, the Exercise, or Both? | NutritionFacts.org

Sep 18, 2012

How to eat to develop tough cancer-killing blood cells

Sep 15, 2012

Detroit Vegan Soul Food Cafe opens

Wow moments on animal farms - great new film

Sep 12, 2012

Today you can choose to care

Powerful Tool to Fight Wildlife Crime Unveiled

Sep 4, 2012

Brutal murdering of elephants for China trade and raising money for rapist regimes

http://nyti.ms/NIVof5

Johnny Appleseed: Pioneer, Humanitarian, Vegetarian

Click here: Johnny Appleseed: Pioneer, Vegetarian

Aug 27, 2012

Tennessee Underground: Exploring Caves

Aug 22, 2012

How can anyone support this horrific cruelty to animals? Watch and decide

Aug 19, 2012

Ag Giants Spend Big to Defeat Labeling Initiative - ABC News

Aug 16, 2012

Laurel Roth's Weird, Wonderful Hand-Knit Pigeon Sweaters

Artistic elegy to extinct bird species and some humans' feather-brainedness .. Renwick's 40 under 40 winner: Laurel Roth's Weird, Wonderful Hand-Knit Pigeon Sweaters

New Year for Animals: The Time Has Come – Jew and the Carrot – Forward.com

"When you juxtapose our Torah against the horrific treatment of farm animals in our industrialized agricultural system, you will see a yawning gap. BEH refers to it as a “yawning gap” not just because the gap is wide, but because we seem to be collectively sleeping while animals suffer. We don’t hear their cries or screams."
Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/161159/new-year-for-animals-the-time-has-come/#ixzz23jANZ0uE New Year for Animals: The Time Has Come – Jew and the Carrot – Forward.com

Aug 15, 2012

Xtreme Athletes Powered by Plants

Frank Medrano: Powered by Plants

Meat's Place on the Campaign Menu: How U.S. Environmental Discourse Negotiates Vegetarianism | HumaneSpot.org

Meat's Place on the Campaign Menu: How U.S. Environmental Discourse Negotiates Vegetarianism | HumaneSpot.org
A drastic reduction in meat consumption is needed to mediate the effects of climate change. However, environmental organizations tend to only advocate modest reductions, even when they recognize the greater sustainability of vegan diets. The author recommends working towards including vegetarianism and animal protection in environmental discourses.

Aug 8, 2012

Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee offers retreats from the heat | Travel | Dallas-Fort ...

Aug 7, 2012

"The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals"

Jenny Brown: "The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals" - Good radio interview...NPR's Diane Rehm show.

Aug 6, 2012

Helping Pets in Need, And Also Fighting Large-Scale Cruelty

Keeping Chilly Lab Mice Warm: Key to Better Science?

Keeping Chilly Lab Mice Warm: Key to Better Science?: (Image Credit: Brianna Gaskill, Purdue University) Joseph Garner imagines how much happier and healthier lab mice would be in a kinder, gentler environment than the stark cages in chilly laboratories – and how that, in turn, might improve the outcome of research that underlies...

Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau is so cool | CapeCodOnline.com

Eat Like An Athlete: 8 Amazing Plant-Powered Foods

Environmental groups say 10,000-hog farm pollutes waterways - Health/Science - NewsObserver.com

Activists grill producers of modified corn

As the Midwest crunches into sweet cornseason, a new type will be appearing on grocery store shelves — even though shoppers have no way to recognize it. It's genetically modified sweet corn from the

biotech

giant MonsantoActivists grill producers of modified corn

Aug 3, 2012

Gritty and Pretty City: Bike St. Louis

Gritty and Pretty in This River City

Jul 28, 2012

Echo, the amazing teacher...an elephant in Africa

Video: Full Episode

The Complicity - will you keep looking away?

Jacksonville Jag shares his winning secret and it's not what you would expect

Jul 26, 2012

Eating to prevent and reverse the leading causes of death

What agribusiness and Rx / med industry doesn't want you to hear: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death | NutritionFacts.org

Western fires killing cows, calves and livestock ranches

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/dead-cattle-and-burned-pastures-pose-long-term-challenge-for-ranches-hit-by-wildfires-in-west/2012/07/26/gJQAZc8fAX_story.html

Jul 24, 2012

New meta-study links soy foods in diet with surviving breast cancer survival

http://www.ajcn.org/content/96/1/123.abstract

Jul 20, 2012

Elephant protecting fallen friend from predator

Outdoor Scenes - Week 14 Voting - Traveler Photo Contest 2012 - National Geographic

Jul 17, 2012

Rep. Steve King Attempts to Slash Protections for Animals, Workers, and the Environment

Jul 13, 2012

UTI infections - another reason not to eat chicken

http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/07/12/supermarket-chicken-could-give-you-drug-resistant-infection?cmpid=tp-FI-FB

Jul 12, 2012

Smart Ways to Encourage & Monetize Recycling - Reversing the Throwaway/Waste Mindset

Throwaway Economy Headed for Junk Heap of History -- book excerpt worth reading and reading - smart ideas for individuals, business, companies & government.

Rethinking leather: why not?

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/07/the-value-of-skin-rethink-wearing-leather/

Jul 10, 2012

On Greed, Kindness, Ahimsa: Interview with global philanthropist Philip Wollen

Kindness is King: Interview with Philip Wollen

Jul 8, 2012

Afghanistan war - new book

Excellent new book on the war in Afghanistan - is it worth it? Was the choice of base the right one?

Jul 4, 2012

The Leaky Gut Theory of Why Animal Products Cause Inflammation | NutritionFacts.org

Jul 3, 2012

What Really Happens After You Flush the Toilet

Jul 2, 2012

Tiny Houses - cool and inspiring

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/07/tiny-homes-part-2/

Jun 28, 2012

The New Frontier in Food Science: Replicating the Nutrition, Texture and Taste of Meat and Eggs

Early Human Diet Shows Surprises

Early Human Diet Shows Surprises Early relatives of modern-day humans, enjoyed a diet of leaves, fruits, nuts, and bark, which meant they probably lived in a more wooded environment than is generally thought, a surprising find published in the current issue of Nature magazine by an international team of researchers that includes a Texas A&M ....

Jun 27, 2012

Smart Cuisine in the Rio Grande Valley

McAllen gets and eats smart! Cuisine in the Rio Grande Valley

Jun 24, 2012

Global philanthrophist on animal cruelty and social injustic

Jun 23, 2012

Lab meat about to happen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/22/fake-meat-scientific-breakthroughs-research

Jun 21, 2012

See how your meat and chicken is produced

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZXOdpU1j8&feature=player_embedded#!

Jun 1, 2012

Book Review: 'The Lean' by Kathy Freston

May 29, 2012

Bird-Watching on the Border

People and birds making it happen along the Lower Rio Grande -- read about it in Bird-Watching on the Border

May 25, 2012

Canada's mass firing of ocean scientists brings 'silent summer' — Environmental Health News

Stopping wildlife poachers

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/how-to-stop-wildlife-poachers.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212_20120525

May 24, 2012

Time to Ban Foie Gras

Time to Ban Foie Gras What kind of chef needs to depend on cruelty to lure customers?

May 22, 2012

Why body odor reveals your true health habits: Here's how to reduce odor and enhance health

May 21, 2012

More Ways That You Can Help Animals in Labs Right Now!

More Ways That You Can Help Animals in Labs Right Now! How does cutting off a live goat's legs 'train' military members...or anyone?

May 19, 2012

The Vital Chain: Connecting The Ecosystems of Land and Sea by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360

May 16, 2012

Tennessee Walking Horses Abused? - ABC News

I've got this...straight from the Garden State

May 14, 2012

Muscle man actor all around smart guy talks veg

May 12, 2012

Horrid cruelty on Tyson supplier pig farm

May 5, 2012

Mammoth Tracking in Waco

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/05/mammoth-tracking-in-waco/

Apr 27, 2012

Gridlock is mostly the GOP’s fault? Ideology trumping solutions?

Fascinating article http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html

What a Wonderful World - tour in 2 minutes

New children's book on living without cruelty

Apr 22, 2012

Obesity? No - O Green City in South Texas

Urban bird sanctuary, hike bike paths, hot new veg-centric eateries, old water treatment plant turned into a park, old buildings turned into recording and art studios - a bier's tour of McAllen. http://www.theurbn.com/2012/04/obesity-no-green-city/

Progress in faux meat craft

How do you like your meat? New progress in cruelty-free meat craft @financialtimes http://on.ft.com/HYjV7a

Apr 21, 2012

Is This Animal Research "Ridiculous" or Warranted? | Parade.com

Apr 20, 2012

San Antonio: Good Golly Tamales!

San Antonio: Good Golly Tamales! Check out the yummy photos!

Apr 13, 2012

Cruel Cuts - Illegal Slaughter Exposed in Los Angeles - Mercy For Animals

How to Curb Discharge of the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas: A 50 Percent Reduction in Meat Consumption and Emissions Is Needed

Mar 28, 2012

New Test Found for Effectiveness of Baking Soda as Breast Cancer Therapy

Mar 25, 2012

Deaths at the Horse Races: Deception, Drugs, Greed exposed

Important expose and videos - watch.

Mar 22, 2012

U.S. Scientist Helps Lead International Study of Ocean Value

Mar 19, 2012

Mountain Prison Camp Now a Heritage Center

Wyoming was no destination of choice for Japanese-Americans in the 1940s....
http://www.theurbn.com/2012/03/heart-mountain/

Mar 18, 2012

Honeybee Deaths Linked to Corn Insecticides

Honeybee Deaths Linked to Corn Insecticides: What was killing all those honeybees in recent years? New research shows a link between an increase in the death of bees and insecticides, specifically the chemicals used to coat corn seeds. The study, titled “Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter...

Mar 16, 2012

Amazing whale photos, troubling trends in fish kills

Balancing the Pacific Ocean Scales

Roadway with Recycled Toilets Is World's First Official 'Greenroad'

Roadway with Recycled Toilets Is World's First Official 'Greenroad' Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington, has awarded the first official certification for a sustainably built road to a project that incorporated porcelain from discarded toilets in its sidewalks.

Mar 15, 2012

Are Humans Really That Special?

Are We Really That Special? ....why people feel the need to say "Humans are the only animals …." It's a way to set us apart, to make our species special, to show a little species pride. Sadly, this distinction is often used to justify inhumane treatment of animals.

Mar 14, 2012

Acceptance & support of cruel food-animal practices degrades societies, including USA's

Mar 9, 2012

Gas industry paying for influence at Penn State

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/gas_drilling_industry_paying_p.html

Mar 8, 2012

Surge in interest in vegan and vegetarian eating

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nil-zacharias/vegan-food_b_1324363.html

Peak meat: consumption going down

http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2012/highlights25

Who are the true top multinationals?

Multi-national giants -- bet you can't name the top 6....

Mar 5, 2012

Cola's caramel coloring linked to cancer

Cola's caramel-coloring proven to be carcinogenic ... "it's created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure."...yum! http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/03/05/cancer-cola-linked-again

Mar 2, 2012

Enjoy winter days on Lake Erie | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN

Mar 1, 2012

Shocking New HSUS Investigation Leads to Arrests, Horse Rescue

Excellent diet & dietary advice...fad diets debunked

From a nutrition doctor who actually keeps up on science and evidence. http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/vegan/ask_dr_wilson.html

Feb 29, 2012

Solar panels resembling fruit roll-ups

http://grist.org/list/peel-off-solar-panels-could-make-solar-competitive-with-coal/

Feb 22, 2012

Ocean life: the true underworld

5 Steps to Stop Overeating

5 Steps to Stop Binge Eating

Whales trying to escape sonar testing: video

Feb 20, 2012

Breakthrough: creating red meat without killing cows

http://www.livescience.com/18558-scientist-cooks-meatless-product-meat-lovers.html

Feb 17, 2012

Hockey's Zigomanis on vegan diet

'there's bodybuilders, there's MMA fighters, football players, basketball players. Triathletes, a lot of them are vegan. All the ultra-marathon runners are vegan."

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Mike+Zigomanis+stakes+health+vegan+diet/6162228/story.html#ixzz1meAH053g

Feb 16, 2012

China Poised to Condemn More Cows to Factory Farms

PETA Prime: China Poised to Condemn More Cows to Factory Farms

Feb 15, 2012

Mobile App: Urban Times guide to London

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/02/travel-london-mobile-app-urban-times/

Lead in 400 popular lipsticks

Feb 14, 2012

Las Vegas: Art of Neon and Conscience

Touchscreen typing gloves that work

http://www.theurbn.com/2012/02/touchscreen-gloves/

Feb 12, 2012

Hirst: Money is his medium

Art Thoughtz NailsIit: Performance Art

Feb 9, 2012

Curing Diabetes: How Type 2 Became an Accepted Lifestyle - The Atlantic

Read the article to the end, then look up pcrm.org for a proven diabetes reversal eating plan.

From the Atlantic expose:

"What may surprise you is the food industry's role in manipulating our eating habits and undermining the most determined of our New Year's resolutions to lose weight.

Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Koplan and Kelly Brownell, from Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, observed: "Billions of dollars have been spent convincing individuals (children in particular) that highly sweetened beverages and cereals, salty snack foods, and a vast array of products high in fat, sugar, and salt are fun, athletic, sexy, popular, healthy, and even have beneficial properties."

Geralyn Spollett calls the ramped-up fat, salt, and sugar the food industry's "Golden Triangle." The American Diabetes Association president said: "You get enough fat, salt, and sugar in something and people will crave it." In fact, a 2009 Scripps Research Institute study found that over-consumption of fast food "triggers addiction-like neuroaddictive responses."