As people everywhere become more conscious of what they’re eating and lawmakers work to find a way to combat high rates of obesity and diabetes, calorie counts are beginning to show up in many fast food and family restaurant chains around the country. And now these numbers are making their way into some school cafeterias. [...]
I don’t have a dog, but I imagine picking up their poop is probably the least enjoyable aspect about owning one. But would the cleanup seem a little less burdensome if the poop could be made useful? A new project funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is giving dog waste a second life [...]
We’d all love to give to various charities, but times are tough and money is tight. So what if it were a lot easier to donate money, in amounts so small you’d never notice it was gone in the first place? That’s the idea behind SwipeGood, a new organization that helps users give a little [...]
By now we’ve all seen those commercials for High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) on TV — you know the ones where someone offers their friend a beverage or a bite of their food and then the friend turns it down noting that the offered item contains HFCS. The person then replies that HFCS is made [...]
In the past I’ve written about overfishing and how a computer application in Italy was working to ensure that fishermen were connected with consumers, so that none of their catch would go to waste. Now a small fishing village in Maine is taking a low-tech spin on this idea of connecting potential buyers to the [...]
FarmVille is one of the most frustrating megatrends on the Internet today. 60 million people log a mind-boggling 70 million hours each week (or almost 8,000 years) tending to their virtual crops. What could be a massive teaching opportunity — FarmVille commands a huge captive audience of people who are have at least [...]
Although most body care products are completely unnecessary, many of us would have a hard time giving up our favorite face wash or shampoo. The problem is body care products tend to create a lot of waste, and because we use these items so frequently, the waste adds up. To help reduce the amount of [...]
Owning a car is an expensive luxury not everyone can afford. And not everyone needs a car all of the time. If you live in a large city or on a college campus, chances are you’ll only need a vehicle when you’re trying to leave (or return to) the city or campus. Well now Daimler [...]
The food and beverage industry in the United States spends $10-12 billion each year advertising to children, and according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study, 44% of television food ads targeting kids are for candy, snacks, or fast food. None are for fruit or vegetables. Many think this has a lot to do with [...]
Ah the American Chemistry Council (ACC) is at it again. On Tuesday I wrote about how the trade association fought against Canada’s ban of BPA, and now the organization is (at least partially) responsible for Californian lawmakers rejecting a bill that would have banned plastic shopping bags statewide.
Although a number of cities in California have [...]
