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Here’s what caught our eye this week!
CURRENT EVENTS
What Medals Should the London 2012 Olympics Get for Sustainability?
No one can deny that the London 2012 Olympic Games were a brilliant success. The athletes were magnificent, the crowds were enthusiastic, the trains ran on time and the place looked great. London’s claim to fame was that…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
PARENTING
Dressing our Kids into Bankruptcy
With heat and drought still smothering the Corn Belt, we may well see more all-time highs in coming weeks as the extent of crop damage becomes…Read Full Article
From Washington Post: Lifestyle Blog
POLITICS
Churches Speak Out on Northern Gateway Oil Sands Pipeline
The vast majority of mothers admit to spending more on their kids clothes than on their own wardrobes this time of year…Read Full Article
From The Financial Post
ENVIRONMENT
Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices
With heat and drought still smothering the Corn Belt, we may well see more all-time highs in coming weeks as the extent of crop damage becomes…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
FOOD
Can’t-miss Summer Reading for Sustainable Food Fans
Whether you’re bed and breakfasting it on the farm, biodieseling to a beach picnic, or touring the eco-vineyards of South Africa this year, you’ll need a sustainable food book or two for the journey. Here we rounded up to a list of some of our favorites…Read Full Article
From Grist
IN THE NEWS
Stranded Jet Skier Breaches Multimillion Dollar Security System at JFK Airport
New York’s John F. Kennedy airport failed a security check Saturday night, in a public and surprising way…Read Full Article
From The Two-Way: NPR
HEALTH
To Boost Memory, Shut Your Eyes
Forget brain-training exercises, 12-hour shifts and those long, uninterrupted, caffeine-fueled study binges. When you really need new information to sink in, you can’t skimp on taking breaks, new research suggests. That’s the message from a study…Read Full Article
From CNN Health
STYLE
Helen Gurley Brown’s Influence: All the Single Ladies
There were single girls before there was Helen Gurley Brown, and there was sex, too. But not until her 1962 manual “Sex and the Single Girl,” which debuted a year before “The Feminine Mystique,” was there a path to becoming the single girl…Read Full Article
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