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...Whatever she might have imagined, it's a safe bet it didn't include going on a diet. But that was before she went to the movie's website (www.climatecrisis.net) and discovered a calculator where she could determine her carbon footprint - a measurement of how many pounds of global-warming-causing carbon dioxide she and her family were emitting annually into the atmosphere from their daily lives - energy they used to power their home, to get around and the energy used to make all the products they consumed. Then she began to figure out ways they could cut back...
...come up with her regimen, Spencer consulted a myriad of sources on-line. There are calculators to help assess how much pollution you contribute, along with a variety of sites that tell you how to go on a diet, and still others with carbon-dieting support groups, like those found on the Sierra Club site. Terrapass, a company that sells carbon-offsetting investments to individuals, sends an email to 19,000 people a week with carbon pound weight-loss tips. They also have an active blog where people post their own tips, vote on their willingness to make certain changes...
...Jimmy Carter in a cardigan urging the nation to be more energy efficient during the OPEC crisis in the 1970s. "People who care about the environment are trying to reframe the issue," he says. "If that means making the ideas a little more sexy and marketing it as a diet, then we'll do it. We say low carbon diets are like a gateway drug, a voluntary initiative that will help people realize that we must change our energy infrastructure...
Royal jelly Adult bees secrete this protein mix, and all young bees are fed a portion of it. But an exclusive diet of royal jelly can transform an ordinary bee into an egg-laying queen...
Honeybees are responsible for up to 30%* of food in the U.S. diet that relies on pollination--and that includes alfalfa-fed beef ?ORANGES 17.8 billion lbs. ?GRAPES 15.7 billion lbs. ?APPLES 9.9 billion lbs. ?WATERMELONS 3.8 billion lbs. ?CUCUMBERS 2.2 billion lbs. ?ALMONDS 915 million lbs. ?SQUASH 815 million lbs. ?CHERRIES (sweet) 502 million lbs. ?HONEY 175 million lbs. *2005 production...