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In the great spirit of last minute Christmas gifts, I’ve decided to build vermicomposters for my family. I already checked with my mom, and she’s down with the worms, but I still need to make sure my brother and father are okay with it. I’ll be using a method like the one described […]

That’s right, the United States Military is asking wounded soldiers to return portions of their signing bonuses. I bet they don’t put those “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their government SUVs either! But really, instead of asking for the money back, why don’t they just totally provide inadequate medical care and compensation for […]

An old friend emailed me the following quotation, which I found pretty fascinating:
“A vegan driving a Hummer produces less greenhouse gases than an omnivore riding a bicycle.” –Howard Lyman
This is especially interesting to me, because my reasons for being vegan mostly have to do with personal choice, not some sort of political imperative, but I […]

Amy Youngs media art delights and disgusts with a composting “digestive” indoor table. This is actually a really great idea for city dwellers without the proper outdoor space for a compost heap. It’s basically a table with a big ol’ udder on the bottom full of worms. You drop the food scraps […]

New scientific review shows vegetarian diets cause major weight loss
(thanks BoingBoing). Kind of obvious to me, but it’s good to see it backed up with data. When I first went vegan, I lost about 15 lbs. After about 9 months, I went back up maybe 10 lbs, but the huge thing […]

Treehugger reports on a new New Organic Vodka that should be hitting the shelves soon. It’ll be rough, but I think I’ll do my civic duty and buy some of this. You know, for the good of the planet, and science!

I may be overly obsessed with illumination technologies, but a couple of weeks ago when I was driving to Philadelphia, it was all I could think about. I was staring at this skyline covered in skyscrapers and industrial building, and they were all glowin’ like the frickin’ sun, and it struck me how much […]

Rob Carlson and I got into a discussion the other day about the practicality of having illuminated street signs at night. I said it’s something that we’ll see in the next 5-10 years because of the increasing practicality of solar power for low-energy applications. He disagreed.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough in Spray-On Solar-Power […]

So there’s this new concept car called the Aptera. It’s a 2-seat, 3-wheel bio-deisel hybrid. It gets 330 mpg. Of course, there’s a drawback. The thing is tiny. It would get run over by an SUV and they wouldn’t even notice. So it will never happen, but there’s a […]

I have no idea how I feel about this victimless leather jacket prototype from Tissue Culture. Technically, it’s meat. It’s made from a combination of mouse and human tissues, then grown in a test tube (not stitched, actually grown to shape). Is it vegan? I’d say no, because of the mouse […]