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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine, “an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health,” declares that genetically engineered foods “pose a serious health risk” and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods.

I’m excited to announce the winner of the free Belkin Conserve Surge Protector — a really neat gadget that can help you save lots and lots of money each year on your electricity bill.
Before I tell you who the winner is, I want to let you know that Belkin is offering 15% off on the [...]

The Belkin Conserve giveaway ends tonight, April 3rd, at midnight Pacific time!
You could win a Belkin Conserve energy-saving surge protector, retail value, $49.99. — to help you save electricity by conveniently unplugging up to 8 appliances with the press of a single button.
Go and enter now — before it’s too late!
Check back tomorrow to find [...]

Most home electronics continue to use energy, even when you’ve turned them off. This wasted energy is called “standby power,” which adds up fast and impacts the environment. Belkin’s Conserve Energy-Saving Surge Protector makes it easy for you to reduce this standby power.

Belkin has offered to give away a free Conserve Power Surge Protector to Cheeseslave readers. All you have to do is enter the contest and you can win a Conserve Power Surge Protector — retail value, $49.99.

This is pretty impressive.
Two weeks ago, Crunchy Domestic Goddess blogged about an offensive online ad for Motrin which made fun of babywearers.

She went beyond blogging: she tweeted about it on Twitter.com, emailed the VP of marketing, and she advised her readers to blog, tweet and email as well. And she threatened to boycott, noting [...]

These videos made me cry.
I’m not opposed to hunting, nor am I a vegetarian. But aerial hunting?!
If you care about the environment and the welfare of animals, I don’t know how you can vote for this woman.
“Pilots chase the wolves through the deep snow, sometimes for miles, until the exhausted animals [...]

I’m always reading about people eating less meat in order to reduce their carbon footprint. These people say that the most important thing you can do to help the environment is to go vegetarian.
For example, Kelly Freston wrote this article last year in the Huffington Post: Vegetarian is the New Prius:
Last month, the United [...]

I finally got some clotheslines rigged up in the backyard. I found some rope at the local hardware store — I just tied it to some trees. Nothing fancy — but it works. They had clothespins at the store, too.
These are Kate’s cloth diapers and cloth wipes. The sun really does bleach out the stains.

I met these folks today on the street in front of my office. They are trying to save 50 trees in Santa Monica from being ripped out.
Certain people (a few local store owners, from what I gathered) want to rip out perfectly good trees and plant new trees. It’s crazy!
Anyhow, these good folks were out [...]

I got a new book from the library. It’s called “Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community”.
Here’s what the author writes about her upbringing:
For the first twenty years of my life I never thought about where my food came from; nor did I question the [...]