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Buying Green Can Be License For Bad Behavior, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...

But buying those same products can have the opposite effect. Researchers found that buying green can lead people into less altruistic behaviour, and even make them more likely to steal and lie than after buying conventional products. Buying products that claim to be made with low environmental impact can set up “moral credentials” in people’s minds that give license to selfish or questionable behavior.

I can see this research with some merit, but at the same time, could I dare to say, not everyone acts or behaves that way.  I would not go and think about the consequences everyday, but what does steal or lie or what does being green really have to do with the research?   Unless you lie to the researcher, or it is hip to be green, or its a trend to be green with the people around you.. Are you having some societal pressures for being green, so that you are resorting to lie?  I do not really understand, I hope someone can post some answers.  Thanks:)

The Most Dangerous Foods (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10...

A new study put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has ranked the ten foods that the FDA regulates which have caused the most foodborne illnesses. Noticeably absent from the list are meat products. The reason: this list only includes what the FDA regulates -- produce, seafood, eggs and dairy products. The USDA oversees meat, which is why it's not included on this list.

I really have to say, wash your vegetables and clean it throughout.  Nothing are foolproof!  Btw, does the FDA knows what the USDA does?

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Today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change.  I wished every single day would be awareness for climate change.  For a while already, I did not use the word, "global warming".  Why?  If you read my blog entries in the past, you will know that the climate each year have been warm one day, the next cold, the next storming or chaos.  Now lets get to the ways we can keep our Earth happy yet enjoy our lives.
Lately I came across the freecycle group, some are really good stuff, some really were I wished, didn't end up in freecycle, but to let you know what they have: eg: a baby stroller, a stack of magazines, a series of cords for computers?, past issues of magazines, and more you can imagine.  
A few more ideas: I find that 2nd hand stores can be a good find if you keep going in devotion, and sometimes you can get brand new stuff from there, according to some devoted customers.  Those aren't the best but at least they are in 2nd hand.  Do you like gardening?  If you can garden your own food, it would be the best.  You can compost your own garbage for the soil for the garden.  For you gardeners, you know what to do!
If not, here is a start guide.  After your food are grown, there are 50 ways to remind you how not to waste your food!
Enjoy! 

The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/m...

Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with controversial, game-changing propositions. We found a prison reformer who wants to empty jails, an economist who thinks foreign aid hurts more than it helps, and a military theorist who believes the US should launch preemptive cyberattacks, right now. Then there's secretary of defense robert gates, who wants to win wars, not just prep for them. Risky? Sure. But this is no time to play it safe.

Ideas that shocked the world are not really shocking @ all.  I think what we should note: end aid to Africa is not a new idea at all. Ending long term aid would be a goal,but far from ideal for some countries now. 
I don't know the idea of autistics would be appealing to most people.  Personally, I think some merit must be placed on their ability to choose what they would like to pursue instead.  IT fields usually called as ideal for autistics, but I cannot conclude all are created the same.  Lets those folks decide for themselves.
Human cloning: I would like to say, I am not too keen on human cloning, I am more into the idea of: Cryonics.
In terms of taking risks, it all depends on your own personality and your situations or your disposition!  Are there ever  such a term as: smart risk?  I wish!     

Google Street View goes live in Canadian cities

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009...

Google Street View is also available in the Ontario cities of Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ottawa and Windsor, as well as Calgary, Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta, Montreal and the surrounding area, Quebec City and Halifax.

Privacy is an illusion!  I don't know how to break this news at first!  When you enter to your apartment building, if you do live in one, you are being monitored!  How about when you head to your office building each and every day of the working week?  The security cameras!  Yet again!  In the big cities, I don't know about yours, but in downtown Toronto, there are security cameras in parts of Toronto, and its part of our daily lives.  In parts of London, England, its part of their lives too!  I don't know how we can stop this invasion yet or there are ways to stop it besides signing petitions!  I would say, despite of these measures, sometimes, there isn't a feeling that I do feel any safer.  Do anyone feel safer?  I still at times, have to look behind my back and be as alert as I should be!    

16 Antioxidant Drinks: Nutritious Or Suspicious?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09...

Antioxidants are fast becoming the new superheroes of the health food movement.

I could say that energy drinks do work in a limited way.  I tried a number of them.  Some of them are really more of sugar rather than nutritious.  For example: Vitamin Water, FUZE, (not my fav) and anything that doesn't have too much juice content in them and loads of sugar. 
I do like to make my own energy drinks in a shake form, 100% juice with what I need with what I want. 
There are of course some good stuff to drink on the go: Ito En’s Tea’s Tea and Purple (I do not drink this on its own, I mix this with my shakes)

9 Environmental Boundaries We Don’t Want to Cross | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/200...

Climate change threatens to turn the planet into a stormy, overheated mess: That much we know. But according to 28 leading scientists, greenhouse gas pollution is but one of nine environmental factors critical to humanity’s future. If their boundaries are stretched too far, Earth’s environment could be catastrophically altered — and three have already been broken, with several others soon to follow.

Nine boundaries were identified including climate change, stratospheric ozone, land use change, freshwater use, biological diversity, ocean acidification, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to the biosphere and oceans, aerosol loading and chemical pollution.
I do not know typical people would understand the mixed results that scientists come out with. 
Global Warming Could Cool N. America in a Few Decades? http://ow.ly/qMbw (via National Geographic)
Earth is a complex planet that constantly are changing, true are our environment are in need to be cleaned up, but without the whole world's cooperation, or understanding the fact that it would harm our overall health, our food supplies, until then, our Earth would remain questionable. 
For the whole article read: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/planetary-boundaries

This Book May Make Your Child Say That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals | GeekDad | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/...

Author and Artist Ruby Roth’s That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians and All Living Things is one of the more challenging books I’ve read with my daughter.

I find this page when I randomly read my news of the day.  I would like to see if I can find it in the library.  It would be nice to know how this book was written and would it really lead me to vegetarianism.  What do you think of this little kids book? 
Yep, there are lots more books like these that are more political then vegetarianism.

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