Oct/090
Demand Organic – Rodale Institute’s Consumer Guide to Healing the Planet
Demand Organic – Rodale Institute’s Consumer Guide to Healing the Planet | Demand Organic.
Jul/090
UGO FlameDisk – The Charcoal Alternative.
Here’s a nifty new product. I haven’t tried it yet but the propoganda looks neat.
uGO™ FlameDisk™ is FAST, EASY, CLEAN & ECO-FRIENDLY! Great flame-grilled flavor and no need for messy charcoal or nasty lighter fluid.
Jul/090
Water temperature irrelevant to effective hand-washing
Q. In your column, you said that warm water is no more effective than cold for removing germs. You are way off the mark.
We wash to remove germs, not kill them. Dirty hands are oily, and oils are more soluble in warm water. So is soap. Warm water works faster and is more effective than cold water for rinsing off germs.
A. Other readers also took us to task for suggesting that warm water is no more effective than cold for removing germs. To try to get a more objective answer, we checked with Charles Gerba, Ph.D., professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona. He is one of the country’s leading researchers on germ contamination. Dr. Gerba told us that he has “not seen studies comparing hot versus cold water for hand-washing. Warm water might be somewhat more effective, but the difference is probably so small as not to make much difference. Washing is too quick for the heating to kill much or the soap to dissolve better.”
Jun/090
Pennycress as source for biodiesel oil?
Can we use stinkweed seeds for oil? Maybe, maybe not.
