Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com
>> Your house without you, or nature’s demolition job. Visualize your house without you via this 2-minute animation. How long do you think it would take your house to disintegrate, leaving no trace of your having lived in it? Pick a number (of years), then watch this:
>> Soy story: Adventures in organic soy milk. What is “carrageenan” and why’s it in my soy milk? That’s what I asked Twitter after getting home with my Silk organic soy milk, bought at Vons yesterday after much indecision.
And a couple linky posts:
>> A.M. Greenlist: Last minute eco-Mothers’ Day prep
I remember carrageenan as one of the ingredients in my milk in elementary school. Or maybe it was in the chocolate milk. It’s a seaweed derivative (I originally learned this from The Black Stallion, believe it or not–the book, not the movie) and is used in a variety of products so wide that it might as well be the SNL product Shimmer.
Comment by KateNonymous — May 12, 2008 @ 8:50 pm