Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet’s climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced- a catastrophe of our own making. Continue reading “Green Documentaries: An Inconvenient Truth”
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Artificially Sweeteners or Natural Sugar Replacements?
The number of sweeteners available today is staggering. We see high fructose corn syrup, sorbitol, dextrose, xylitol, and sugar in our packaged foods along with white, blue, pink, brown and now green packets to spruce up that iced tea in restaurants. If you are keeping up with the trends, agave nectar and stevia are all the rage. But have you ever stopped to wonder what all the sweeteners really are? Regardless of where you ended up on the flowchart or what you think of your choice, understanding what the sweetener is and where it comes from is the first step.
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Food Waste – A Story of Excess [Videoinfrographic]
Half of the food produced in the United States is wasted between the farm and the fork, discarded as result of the inefficiency in the human managed food chain.
Holiday Waste [INFOGRAPHIC] via @InfographicAll
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