Photo: Kelly Rossiter I don’t normally serve bread or biscuits with dinner, but our vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner was going to have sauces and gravy and no mashed potatoes to catch all that good stuff, so biscuits seemed like a great idea. I could have made plain butter biscuits , or sweet potato biscuits , but there were a lot of b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: TreeHugger Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this is one holiday where food is king, queen, court…well you get the point. TreeHugger writer Kelly Rossiter has whipped up (and sampled!) eight delicious vegetarian recipes — so you can pack your menu full of tasty delights and give your guests a Thanksgiving feast to remember. You’ll see options for vegetarians, vegans, and just plain foodies — and the remaining recipes will launch throughout the week, so check ba… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Visions Statements Are Not Enough. Backcasting a Pathway to Sustainability.
November 17, 2010 No Comment
Image credit: WTL Photos , used under Creative Commons license. I’ve never liked vision statements. All too often they smack of wishful thinking and fantasy. Yet the environmental movement is rife with them. As I have argued many times before, the green movement needs a concrete plan , and that plan needs to embrace strategic thinking … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter A lot of good cooks find making pastry a daunting proposition, but this galette is very forgiving. The rustic appearance is part of the charm of a galette so you don’t have to worry about how the pastry looks. This delicious savoury pie was a perfect addition to the big Thanksgiving meal …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images via Plastiki We’ve heard of Meatless Monday . We’ve heard of Weekday Vegetarian . But there’s a new one to add on to the calendar — Fish Free Friday . A project of the Plastiki gang, the new non-menu item brings awareness to our bad habit of overfishing as well as which species are under p… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Gorgeous, Dumpster Diving Male Model Uses Beauty to Achieve Food Forest Dream (Photos)
November 17, 2010 No Comment
Anderson in a Paul Mitchell ad. Photo: Anthony Anderson Can being beautiful help promote a sustainable lifestyle? Living in a self-proclaimed dichotomy between the fashion world and sustainable living, dumpster diving and wild food forager Anthony Anderson uses his male modeling career to supplement his mission to live sustainably, launch an organic chocolate company, and plant food forests…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …"Crazy Weather" iPhone App Teaches Kids About Climate Change with Gorgeous Art and Rhymes
November 17, 2010 No Comment
Images via Crazy Weather It’s tough to resist the absolutely beautiful artwork put forward by Crazy Weather, a new app for the iPhone and iPad that teaches kids about the impacts of global climate change on weather. The interactive app is a fairytale that tackles the problems of our warming planet, and all in an adorable rhyme. While the text is great, its the images that captivate. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: cuencadelplata After great pressure from the Paraguayan government and local campaigners, an expedition to a remote part of the Amazon by the prestigious Natural History Museum in London has been suspended. A team of one hundred scientists, botanists and biologists were planning an expedition to isolated parts of Paraguay in their search for new species of plants and insects. However there were fears that they would meet up with tribes of natives in the area who had never been exposed to people outside the Amazon. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan That whole sustainable, comfortable, and high-speed transportation thing was overrated anyway. Who needs high-speed rail? See, as the Onion proposes above, all we have to do is paint over the shoulder lanes on ou… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Samuel Mann , Flickr, CC It’s likely to be the largest plastic bag ban to hit the US yet — enacted in parts of the sprawling LA county, disposable, single-use bags will now be off limits to 1.1 million people. In addition, paper bags will now cost 10 cents a pop for shoppers — providing yet another incentive for southern Californians to start adopting reusable bags. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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