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Archive for October 18th, 2006

I missed the Friday post

One of my favorite dirty little pleasures is taking a nice warm bath with a good book. Preferably a book about the environment that inspires me. The best book I recently read and highly recommend is Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. I only wish it was waterproof. Well [...]

October 18th, 2006
Topic: Fun Tags: , ,

Environmental Debt

E Magazine is reporting that Guatemala and the United States of America have signed a landmark agreement that switches debt into forest conservation.
“Environmentalists around the globe are toasting a deal announced last week in which the U.S. government has agreed to forgive $24.4 million in debt from Guatemala to free up the [...]

October 18th, 2006
Topic: Environment, International Events Tags: , , , , ,

Disney Ditches Unhealthy Diets

The Walt Disney Company has said no to unhealthy food in marketing. No longer will Disney use foods that are too unhealthy and have created guidelines that define what they will sponsor and what they wont.
“For instance, added sugar in those foods will not exceed 10 percent of calories for main and side dishes and [...]

October 18th, 2006
Topic: Body & Mind, Good Fact Tags: , , , ,