According to E! Online, Russell Brand will be this year’s host of the MTV Video Music Awards. If you’re like me, you probably have little to no idea who Russell Brand is… so I did a little digging and here’s what I found.
The Good: Brand, 33, has been a vegetarian since he... Read more...
We love the less-is-more aspect of sheds and cabins, packing so much into such small spaces. Australian architect Casey Brown just won the Australian Institute of Architects Small Project award for Permanent Camping, a ten-foot square by 20 foot high getaway with... Read more...
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At a properly run farm, "nothing is waste. Everything is a resource. It's just a matter of harvesting." With 750 cows, Laurie Stanton's farm has a lot of manure to harvest. Martin Mittelstaedt writes in the... Read more...
Brighton based print management company Four Corners has created a free reporting service for print buyers which highlights environmental benefits for print jobs. This service, called Responsible Print, is being used for the first time by Ecover, with whom Leonora just spent the day perusing the Read more...
The word organic today means so much more than the “organic” derived from the Greek word “organikós," meaning something related to an organ of the body. Today the word has been generalized to relate to something derived from a living organism. If you... Read more...
With the root cause of autism still only speculated upon, and everything from prescription drugs in the water supply to pesticides used to grow food and the manner in which vaccines are constructed potentially to blame, a new study shows socially aloof couples with a small circle of friends are more likely to parent autistic children. Suggesting genetics... Read more...