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UNH: My alma mater goes trayless

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

My alma mater, the University of New Hampshire has recently taken the step of removing trays from one of the dining halls. Why would they want to do that you ask?

Well, it turns out it takes quite a bit of water to clean each of those trays. And they also encourage food waste in accordance with the adage about one’s eyes being bigger than their stomach.

The story in The New Hampshire, the University’s student-run paper, gives some impressive numbers in this regard. However, as you can tell from the comments, it’s not exactly a popular measure.

The seacoast’s local print news, Foster’s Daily Democrat, also reported on the story. They predict the trend will catch on at other institutions of higher education.

I was rejoicing the move, but reading the student’s comments — one from a fellow vegan — reminded me what it was like. So, what do you think? Good idea or not worth the inconvenience?

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Vegan Calorie Restriction Recipes

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

OK, let’s kick this project back off. If you’re a long-time reader, you may recall, a little over a year ago, I floated the idea of a collaborative cookbook of vegan CRON recipes.

So, I took a poll. The response was positive and the results were informative as to the desired criteria for recipe inclusion.

Then… <queue crickets>

Things got quiet. I received a recipe or two, but the rest of the promised contributors fell silent. Maybe I’m crazy to try again. But, here goes. Let’s assume the poll results are still valid, and we’ll take it from there.

Netflix sent me some first-month-free cards the other day, so I was going to award those to the first four entrants. But, it looks like they offer that deal even without the coupon code, so what’s the point? Silly!

Anyway, what I can do is give away a one-year subscription to E – The Environmental Magazine. This will be awarded via a random draw on October 19th. (I found this really cool “atmospheric” randomizer on-line I’ll be using to select the winner.)

So, read up on the idea and poll results thru the links above and submit your original recipe before the deadline for your chance to win. It’s a really cool magazine.

And by all means, if you miss it, don’t let that stop you. Remember, if you make it into the book, you still get a copy of the final compilation. :)

By the way, that cover is rather timely considering a recent initiative at the school from which I graduated. More in an upcoming post.

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Safe Drinking Water

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Check it out! Amazon is offering a free download of a beautiful coffee table book all about the global issues regarding safe drinking water.

Filled with amazing photographs and fact sheets that’d make great posters, the hardcover would normally cost you upwards of $30. But, at least for now, it’s free! :)

To get your copy, just click on the image above, then scroll down a tad to where it talks about a PDF. That’s the ticket. I hope you enjoy the pictures and learn a lot from the text, in particular how non-profit organizations (NPOs) are working to make a difference.

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PETA’s Test Tube Meat Challenge

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Not known for shying away from controversy, PETA’s latest proposal doesn’t even have full support within their organization. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering $1 million for the

“first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”


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Speaking of challenges, there’s another pretty cool one going on right now that fits right in with the spirit of Earth Day. The X Prize Foundation has added another technological contest to their line-up. This one’s for the first to design an affordable car that gets 100 MPG.


 
Get your body care from one of the good guys. Tested negative for
1,4-Dioxane in the Organic Consumers’ recent Coming Clean study.

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Al Gore Redux

Monday, April 14th, 2008

With Earth Day right around the corner, I want to share Al Gore’s latest presentation on the environment. Using similarly impressive graphics as in his award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, he suggests the situation may be worse than we’d originally thought.

By the way, his latest book, The Assault On Reason, looks really good. It’s now available in hardcover, and, oddly enough, it actually costs less than the soon-to-be-released paperback. Weird. Anyway, I’ll probably add it to my growing stack of future reading.

So many books, so little time! :)

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