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Home & Garden
The Recycled Houses
Michael Stravato for The New York Times
Published: 20090902
Dan Phillips has built homes in Huntsville, Tex., using salvaged materials.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/02/garden/20090903-recycled-slideshow_index.html
Hah, after years of hearing how eating dead cow meat is bad for you, bad for the environment, and having the glories of soy-based products extolled everywhere from Oprah to the wanna-be hippie commune at College, the seedy underside of Big Tofu is exposed:
Tofu linked to poorer memoryÂ
That’s right folks, consumption of tofu has been linked to the mental decline of elderly Indonesians. It’s the news the global Soy cartel doesn’t want you to hear!
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series. I read Ender’s Game Wednesday evening and Speaker for the Dead last evening. This morning I was mucking about on the Canton Repository web site and found this article on the Foxfield Preserve, a new nonprofit nature preserve Cemetery. One quote in particular resonated with me:
“We’re considering the slogan, ‘Become a tree,’” said Maupin with a laugh. “For us nature buffs, that sounds pretty good.”
The Lusitanian Pequeninos would agree with the sentiment. But hopefully it’s a more metaphorical metamorphosis than the Pequeninos’. The article also points to the increasingly religious nature of environmentalism…
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