Green Options

Author, activist and eco-crusader Bill McKibben visited the Colbert Report last night to bring attention to the 350 campaign to limit carbon emissions and the October 24 day of action in support of the goal.

I’m well aware that poring over the details of cap and trade can be a little boring. But thanks to the folks at Auto-Tune the News, all that has changed.

Look at you, ya beautiful pregnant woman! You glow! There you are, ready to bring life into this world, waddling through grocery stores and Farmers’ Markets. Feeling beautiful and just a little spacey.

Well, what do you know? Turns out that holding the gift of life in your womb makes you a trash receptacle for other peoples’ baggage.

I have had some—shall we say?—interesting comments during my pregnancies. But I also turned to Twitter and Facebook, as well as my friends in real life. Here are some of the funniest and most disturbing comments women have gotten during their nine months with child.

Stephen Colbert delves into the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act and the choice words House Minority Leader John Boehner had for it last week.

From the folks over at ProMoM, “promoting the awareness and acceptance of breastfeeding,” comes this fabulous, hilarious advertising spoof that I simply had to share.

With ongoing news of moms having problems breastfeeding in public, confusion over breastfeeding-friendly symbols, toxins being passed through breastmilk, miscalculation of growth patterns, and anti-lactivism “mommy wars”, I think we could use a laugh about our boobs

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Interview Jon Stewart did with EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

The pika, a relation of the rabbit, is blamed for desertification. China’s authorities have scattered 200kg of rodent contraceptive pellets across the Tibetan plateau to control what they describe as a “plague of desert rats”.

Discover what really happens with your recyclables. It’s time for another round of That’s Just Weird.

In India, the Hindu political group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha will soon market cow urine soda as a health elixir. From our friends at ZapRoot.

Jay Keasling of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California visited Stephen Colbert last night, explaining that the same yeast that we use to produce beer and bread will soon be fueling our cars and planes.

Jon Stewart covers the bank bailout hearings on Capitol Hill.