General Interest (18 links)

Generally Useful

• We havnt vetted this, but if its true, its a powerful way to know if you are buying GMO foods.
• Road map by the Post Carbon Institute.  Good informative watching. 
• Page with a wide variety of chicken coops.  Some really great inspiration.
• Here is a page of clever tricks.  Some of them are even useable by hard core greenies. 
• What did you say is in Mountain Dew????
• Chris Martenson's presentation at the Gold and Silver markets in Madrid.
• How it looks inside a Amazon where house. 
• Products R Us:  are we brandwashed?
• Fascinating article about the things you never thought plants could do.   Hopefully it will give you even more respect for mother nature.
• How can we build bridges that only get stronger over time?  500 years old an just hitting their stride?  People have known for ages but we have lost our birthright.  Rediscover it here.
• How safe is your garden soil?  Here is an article to help you take a look.
• This page has a better than most list of make your own household cleaners and gardening projects.
• Green Dean of EatTheWeeds.com is a personal hero.  Check out his YouTube Channel.
• Sometime plastic containers sneak into our lives.  Ever notice that the water dosnt taste as good if you refill you plastic water bottle?  Turns out that there is some evidence that as they get crumpled, the amount of toxins they leach into the water increases.  Choosing containers made from #2, #4 or #5 plastic for reuse and #1, #3 and #6 for recycling may decrease the potential harm from reusing containers.
• How Can I Recycle It? is a great resource for ideas on how to reuse or remake your unwanted items.
• A few months ago I happened across National Geograhics article on the carbon foot print of shipping wines across the US and around the world.  It impressed further on me the importance of how things get to you, not just how far they have come.  My most recent experience with this concerned toilet paper.  Almost all recycled toilet paper comes out of Canada (thats a lot of truckin).   We are now buying tree free toilet paper from China.   They also made disposable plates etc.  That at least is a huge improvement over corn based disposable plates.
• This website is really heavy on the marketing but they have some great ideas for greening your holidays. http://www.celebrategreen.net/
• The Story of Stuff is a must watch move about stuff and the role it plays in our lives.  We have watched it with our son a few times.