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Category Archives: Green Living
Freak of Nature Thursdays: Mantis Shrimp wants to eat your Face
Meet the mantis shrimp; a spectacularly colorful crustacean which would merrily eat your brains with a nice chianti and a side of fava beans if it had half a chance. In the high school crustacean class of 5 million BC, the mantis shrimp was voted crustiest crustacean.
Let Them Eat Dirt! Why Dirty Kids are Healthy Kids
Superbugs and flesh-eating viruses may have you liberally basting your children with hand sanitizer, and cleaning your home with chemicals that promise to send bacteria packing. But, as it turns out, dirt is actually good for our kids!
Trees can Talk, See and Even Fight Enemies
The hills are alive! Ground-breaking research into trees and plants is revealing that they are much more complex and intelligent than we originally thought. Trees and plants can talk to each other, see, share food and even go to war.
The Seven Toxic Cleaning Chemicals You Should Avoid
Artificial substances such as surfactants, carcinogens and fragrances are all too common in the cleaning industry, and have been linked with a myriad of health issues including cancer. Here are the seven chemicals you need to avoid using in cleaners and cosmetics.
A Standing Desk can add Years to your Life
Do you sit for more than six hours as day? Your sedentary work environment is wheeling you and your office chair to an early grave. (Postulations that work is actually killing me? Confirmed!) The answer? A standing desk!