What's Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?

[from National Geographic, pointed out by D. W. - thanks!]

As the U.S. taste for bottled water grows, environmentalists have been trying to sell people on good old-fashioned—and free—tap water.

But tap water's place in schools is thorny, since some experts say children should actually be drinking more bottled water to head off two stubborn health threats: obesity due to sugary drinks and lead poisoning.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100303-bottled-water-tap-schools/

Month Without Monsanto: One Woman's Attempt To Avoid GMOs

SUMMARY: Describes her experiment and gives a website to follow it on. It seems GMOs are more embedded in our lives than we think and could be pretty harmful.

URL: http://www.care2.com/causes/trailblazers/blog/month-without-monsanto-one-writers-attempt-to/

Fighting the Subversion of Our People's Sovereignty

SUMMARY:  Here's High-Horse Hightower on the dastardly Supreme court
decision which will make all legislation worse (including enviro,
peace, health care, GLBTI issues, women's rights, and on & on, for
the foreseeable future until enough of the 9 die or retire.  It's
rhetoric, but good rhetoric.  NEXT: a guide to the history of this
legislation (if I can find a post) and how to undo the damage (ditto).

http://www.truthout.org/jim-hightower-fighting-subversion-our-peoples-sovereignty57194

CFLs and LEDs

SUMMARY: This article lays out nice and clearly the pros and cons of incandescent, CFL, LED, and nanofiber light bulbs. I did not know that CFLs (as well as containing mercury which usually gets into water-tables) emit harmful levels of UV light which you shouldn't sit close to -- as I do when reading (aaaargh!). I found LEDs at the Marquette Menard's -- not too expensive considering the savings over time. Neat LED night-lights too.

URL: http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/alternative-lighting/