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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren't

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palm oil orangutan poster Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted."

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Don't Expect a Grand Solar Minimum to Save Us From Global Warming

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photo: chantrybee via flickr.

Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum--like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age--it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of green

Are You Being Lied to About Recycling?

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Image credit: Ivan Prole

Look at the bottle of juice you just drank. The detergent you're going to use. The plastic backer on the desk calendar. What's on all of them? That familiar "chasing arrows" graphic with a number in the middle.

Best of Ecouterre: 7 Celebs Spotted Wearing Eco-Fashion

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+ Is Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory.

+ Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.'s Robert Kenner, Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just