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You may have powerfoods in your kitchen right now and don’t know it.By eating powerfoods everyday you can energize and balance your body without costly vitamins and medical bills. Foods affect us on many levels and understanding these factors can help you make better health choices.Before understanding the power of the foods around me, I was unhealthy, unhappy and confused. Constant visits to doctors and health food ...

I know, I know, cooking beans from scratch is much less expensive, but for a quick, cheap vegan meal you can’t beat a can of beans sauteed with garlic, onions, and spices over some steamed brown rice. Easy and delicious! But what do you do with the can after you’ve eaten the contents?Sure, you can toss it in the recycle bin. Metal is one of the few materials that doesn’t get downcycled in the recycling ...

According to the EPA, scientific evidence indicates that indoor air can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air in even the largest and most industrialized cities. Other studies indicate that people spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors. The math isn’t so great–for many people health risks may be greater due to indoor air pollution rather than outdoor pollution.Ill effects may arise after just ...

(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET)Designing Windows 8 for virtually any device from smartphone to PC, Microsoft says it's had a key goal in mind for all hardware platforms--energy efficiency.With laptops and mobile devices slurping up battery power and desktops and servers chewing up electricity, Microsoft has wanted to ensure that any device running Windows 8 can tap into better power management."Very small ...

With the economy tanking and unemployment skyrocketing, where are the green jobs?What is a green job?According to the United Nations Environment Program a green job would be “work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development, administrative, and service activities that contribute(s) substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality.”Can green jobs help our ailing economy and bring us ...

A Boeing 747-8 freighter taking off from Paine Field, in Everett, Wash. The plane was one of the first to fly a biofuel blend, and on Monday, Continental Airlines flew the first-ever U.S. passenger flight with an algae-biofuel blend.(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) The era of American commercial airliners flying on biofuels is here. A Continental Airlines Boeing 737-800 from Houston yesterday became the first U.S. plane ...

eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr/CC BY 2.0 Scientists are finding that traffic exhaust might be going right to your head. The particulate pollution that vehicles emit has long been known to cause a host of respiratory woes, like asthma and lung disease, especially in heavily congested areas. Now, as detailed in a disturbing report in today's Wall Street Journal, researchers are finding that a growing body of ...

Jimmy Baikovicius/CC BY-SA 2.0 Reinforcing the wisdom that feed-in tariffs are the best, most cost-competitive way of deploying renewable energy: Wind-works highlights a new report from the IPCC working group on renewable energy, specifically Chapter 11, Policy, Financing and Implementation.Though certainly not all places that have adopted feed-in tariffs are renewable energy success ...