Meatless Monday Recipe For Snobby ‘Sloppy’ Joes
By · CommentsHappy Meatless Monday! Another week another vegetarian recipe. As you may or may not know, we support the Meatless Monday campaign – a non-profit initiative in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It’s part of an eco-friendly worldwide movement to reduce consumption of animal products in favour of more plant-based meals to fight global warming and improve our personal health. This week we bring a popular dish made vegetarian for you to try.
Lentils are full of nutrients and combine for a healthy (and fat-free) source of protein and complex carbohydrates. This is a great vegan take on an old classic recipe courtesy of Post Punk Kitchen. Serve open-faced on a Kaiser or sesame roll (whole wheat or multigrain preferably) along with a side salad for a healthy satisfying lunch or dinner.
Snobby Joes Ingredients:
- 1 cup uncooked lentils
- 4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion, diced small
- 1 green pepper, diced small
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 Tablespoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 oz can tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard (wet mustard)
4 to 6 kaiser rolls or sesame buns (optional – for serving)
Directions:
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The Climate Killers Part Two - Rupert Murdoch
By · CommentsRolling Stone magazine is taking an eco-friendly political stand by pointing fingers and laying blame on those they feel are the worst offenders to the environment. Rolling Stone’s political columnist Tim Dickinson authored the list entitled “The Climate Killers: Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming”. This is multi part series to examine the list that weighs public perception vs. his finding. You probably read the first part of our series, which focused on Warren Buffett, a name that shocked many because of his newly acquired public persona. The second name on the list is not shocking if anything it seems to be a given that he would be an eco-friendly offender. He is the uber conservative, ultra rich man who gave the world Fox news, if you haven’t guessed yet, well where have you been in the last two decades? It is none other than News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch.
Now, simply creating a controversial new network does not make an eco-offender, so why does Dickinson add Mr. Murdoch’s name to the list? You may or may not know that in 2007 Murdoch made a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility Responsibility, “Murdoch promised that not only would News Corp. itself become carbon-neutral by 2010, but that his media outlets would explain the urgent need for a cap on carbon emissions.” This is something that would have a wide reaching effect, as Murdoch’s power in the business community is profound.
The issue that Dickinson and Rolling Stone find with him is the disconnect between his corporate mandate for an eco-friendly way of doing business and the stance his many news outlets took in dealing with the issue of climate change. Dickinson sites many examples of how the various outlets undermine an eco-friendly outlook, the one that stands out amongst them is this quote from Fox News, right-wing attack dog Sean Hannity [when he] misinformed his viewers that 2009 — the fifth-hottest year in the past 130 — was “one of the coldest years on record.” Hannity then summed up the deranged denial that permeates Murdoch’s media empire: “I don’t believe climate change is real,” he said. “I think this is global-warming hysteria and alarmism.””
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The Climate Killers - Part One
By · CommentsRolling Stone magazine has never been one to mince words whether it is about the latest CD or taking a political stand, so it should be no surprise when their political columnist Tim Dickinson penned the list entitled “The Climate Killers: Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming”. Let us take an ecofriendly multi part look at the list and weigh public perception vs. his finding.
The very first offender marked by the list is noted philanthropist Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett is known for two things of late one being this extreme generosity, he decided to give away a reported 85% of his stock in Berkshire to a number of charities the most well known being the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The second is being a top advisor to United States President Barack Obama during the latest finical crisis. Dickinson claims that Buffett is standing in the way of an ecofriendly future for a host of reasons, the first being his critique of Obama’s climate bill, the article states that “Buffett says, the [climate bill] would mean “very poor people are going to pay a lot more money for their electricity.” Never mind that the bill, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would actually save Americans with the lowest incomes about $40 a year.”
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Waste Paper? Meet your destiny….”White Goat”
By · CommentsThis has to be seen to be believed and fortunately I have a video to include so that you know it’s not just a fanciful idea. I used to work at an 
office where over 600 employees occupied 3 buildings on a corporate campus, regrettably (and as recently as 2006) it was an environment that created an obscene amount of waste paper. We used to have training classes with 60 page staff manuals on paper, I’d attend meetings where in addition to the powerpoint presentation 15 or 20 of us might be watching we would each be handed a twenty page ‘deck’ so we could follow through the presentation from paper on our laps simultaneously! Sadly there were a high number of employees who were very ‘old school’ and emails containing policy or updates just didn’t exist to them unless the clicked their print button, hiked over to the printer and grabbed a paper copy to hide within a draw at their desk. It’s not real unless I can touch it seemed to the mentality.
Within the office they gradually moved to a situation where every 50 feet or so a giant blue paper recycling bin for paper would stand sentinel hoping that a small percentage of the forests destroyed in the name of profit might find their way back to paper mill for reproduction. To be fair some people even asked what these five foot tall plastic receptacles were for, as the months rolled on some people even started adding paper into them. Unfortunately just as many people filled their desk side trash cans on a daily basis with scraps and memos that never needed to be printed in the first place.
I won’t name the company for fear of causing outrage, let’s just say it’s a large and well known company who really should have enforced stricter recycling policy. By the time I left the company, when used to worked later in the evening I would see the cleaning crew come in and empty those recycling bins and would be pleased to see that ‘participation’ rates were beginning to improve. I wish that this product existed 5 years ago as I would have written to our executive board insisting it was considered for our office as well as the dozens of other equally large facilities throughout the world. It’s called White Goat and is named very appropriately.
In short it is a paper shredder designed specifically for large offices that create a significant amount of waste paper. That with water will pulp all waste paper and remarkably turn it into toilet paper. All of this from the same unit! It only takes 40 sheets of A4 paper to make one roll of toilet paper. The manufacturer estimates that ‘running costs’ will equate to about $0.10 per roll of paper. I believe that the company are only accepting pre-orders presently as the product was only recently unveiled at a Japanese ‘eco-trade’ fair late last year.
Watch out for staples!!!
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