Adding more evidence to indicate that people are getting more and more removed from the natural world, healthy eating and any concept of exactly what food is made up of or how it's made, comes a new study out of the UK that shows 11-13 year old...
Topics: diet, food, health, nutrition, society, sugar

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I'm always somewhat pleased when my interests collide, so I was pretty amused when in the middle of the novel I'm currently reading, A Free Life , there is a chapter pretty much entirely dedicated to the main character's interactions with and.
Topics: biology, ecology, fiction, nature

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I'm working on a group of topics I'd like to post about here, but it's become sort of overwhelming. In the meantime I checked in on newly posted TED Talks and found this time appropriate clip . Federal elections are scheduled in the next...
Topics: nature, politics, psychology, society

{"title":"TED: Understanding the Political Spectrum through Psychology, Evolution","post_url":"http:\/\/www.thegreenfilter.com\/2008\/09\/understanding-political-spectrum.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/thegreenfilter.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"ecophile","date":"2008-09-21 20:16:00","summary":"I'm working on a group of topics I'd like to post about here, but it's become sort of overwhelming. In the meantime I checked in on newly posted TED Talks and found this time appropriate clip . Federal elections are scheduled in the next..."}

I'm not a big fan of buying cosmetics and skin and hair care products (because I'm cheap, because they often come in packaging that isn't recyclable and because they're full of chemicals and even plastic in some cases), but summer is...
Topics: plastic, products

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One of the issues that still hasn't broken through in the mainstream, as far as I can tell, is the problem with plastic. Plastic is light, durable, cheap. These qualities make it an attractive material for all sorts of products. Unfortunately, these..
Topics: environmental impact, plastic

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