Pumpkin Spice

Fall is my favorite season. I took this picture hiking last weekend in the Shennandoah national park. :)

A link to the Environmental Working Group. "At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know."

The Alexandria-Arlington Extra from the Washington Post

The Washingtonian Website..I like searching for restaurants and spas on this site

TED Ideas Worth Spreading. Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers. I posted this earlier but I think its worth repeating!

I want one of these. A link to the page for Kyu Che, an architect/artist based in San Francisco. His architectural research involves high tech portable capsule habitats that explore the relationship between man and nature from an eastern philosophical point of view while utilizing 21st century technologies to create bionic systems that are ecologically harmonious.

Express Night Out from the Washington Post. I love looking for cool events and stuff to do!

Wiki link of the day: Luke Vibert. Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronica. -thanks Bloom

Wiki link of the day 2: Damien Hirst is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs).

I thought this was funny: Homeless Polar Bears converge on Washington DC

Blogging God Steve Pavlina Interview, by the author of one of my other favorite blogs, Zen Habits! I was excited about this :)

A superfood I hadn't heard about previously, Mesquite Powder. The website, Live Superfoods, seems like a good resource to learn more about superfoods as well.

Our organic mesquite is a nutritious powder with a sweet, nutty flavor, suitable for use in baking or as a seasoning on food and in drinks. The powder is ground from the seed pods of the mesquite plant, also known as algorroba (Prosopis juliflora), a leguminous plant found in arid areas around the world, including parts of South America and the southwestern U.S. In desert areas of the Americas, mesquite seed pods have long been used as a food source by the indigenous peoples, who traditionally ground them into a powder to be used as a flour or processed into a sweetener, a sweet beverage, or a fermented alcoholic drink. Mesquite is also highly effective in balancing blood sugar. Because its sugar is in the form of fructose, which does not require insulin for metabolism, mesquite helps maintain a constant blood sugar level for a sustained period of time.

Forecast Earth Videos from the Weather Channel. "News, science and debate advancing sustainable life on a changing planet.
This particular video details how one citizen was able to actually cause his power meter to run backwards and put power back ON the grid. He produces more energy that his family uses. This is exactly what the article I read in Ode magazine this summer (see the "Power Shift" post) was talking about as the future of energy use in the country. This is a very exciting video, and there are tons more good ones on this site, as well as other information about sustainability. Here's the link to the Forecast Earth main page.