Take the stairs instead of the elevator. It's the calorie-burning way to avoid awkward silences (or worse, accidental groping), children who press the buttons for all the floors, Muzak, and unnecessary energy use.

The Benefits
Buns of steel. No surprises here: Climbing stairs burns up to ten times more calories than standing in an elevator.
Step-by-step conservation. Depending on type, capacity and usage, an elevator's yearly energy use can equal that of seven homes.

Radio serves as a powerful discovery engine for new music. However, the medium today is one-way. That's about to change thanks to sophisticated mobile devices. All you need to do to see this yourself is buy an iPhone and download some of the free streaming audio applications, such as Pandora and Last.fm.

Verizon Wireless has stepped into a steaming pile of complaints from animal lovers over commercials for its LG Dare phone, but the marketer is sticking with the 30-second spot. Have you seen it? What do you think of it?

Do we really know what goes into our eco-friendly cleaning products? Where they're made and why they work? Despite being a loyal Ecover
customer for many years I must confess ignorance. Like many people I
trust what it says on the label and the reputation of a brand name. So
when the call came inviting me to take a trip on the Eurostar

T. Boone Pickens flew into Sweetwater, Texas, on his Gulfstream G550
private jet last Thursday, then made his way to one of the biggest wind
farms in the country.

As cameras rolled, Mr. Pickens walked amid the hundreds of wind
turbines that dot the flat Texas plains, his slow Okie drawl once again
the star of a TV commercial promoting his "Pickens Plan," which aims to
turn Texas into the Saudi Arabia of wind.

Unlike some "green grand-standing celebs", Demi and Ashton keep their do-good work low-key. According to ecorazzi, the power couple quietly slipped off to Guatemala to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity

Fact: Your Life is Worth 4 Barrels of Oil ...from an energy standpoint, that is. Folks over at The Oil Drum are running the numbers on comparing human labour [sic] to oil. Turns out that running the human machine for 45 years on food-calories uses just about the same amount of energy as contained in four barrels of oil, each of which has a whopping 5.8 million BTUs of energy.

i think i have about 6.

You pick! I haven't seen either.

For almost $400.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826073,00.html

Justin Timberlake, The Pop Star Will Be Featured in Online Films, Print Effort for His Fashion Label

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- William Rast, a clothing label founded in 2005 by Justin Timberlake and his best friend, Trace Ayala, is for the first time cementing its ties with the pop superstar via a fall campaign it hopes will quickly go viral. Mr. Timberlake will star in the campaign, which includes a series of short online films, as well as print and outdoor media. He also co-wrote the screenplay and wrote an original score for the films.

If so, what was your favorite food at the BBQ? I am going to one later and I can't wait!!! FREE FOOOOD!

If you haven't heard, GREEN is the NEW IN. Read more on this topic at my fav blog: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/green-guides/ultimate-green-guide/index...

This thread is for my friends who are going to college and can't decide on a major! This is serious stuff...

Top 10 Paying College Majors according to: http://education-portal.com/articles/Top_10_Paying_College_Majors.html

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

A
20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne
Leonard, to view online or download. Will make you think twice about buying those new shoes.... lol

I think its kind of dumb that everytime i go into a section under the x-change, and want to post a new thread, it always posts in cage match!!! i think there should be a automatic detection that i want to post a thread within the category that i selected.... excuse my thoughts.. just expressin how i feel about this website!! i only wanna see it get better. and there are some basic features that seem to be missing.

You might think twice after watching this video. =(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQZfIrqnTEc

I am excited. Let me share with you my experiences! I just updated my 2G iphone software from 1.1.4 to 2.0 (the latest software version). All my contacts inact, my call history, and my website favourites!!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!

website is being removed by me becus it is a scam.. sorry friends!

Can we please have a contest for the best new design suggestion????? I think this site could seriously benefit from a web redesign... content already ROCKS!!!

Crystle
Stewart, on Sunday became the second Miss USA in a row to fall
down during the Miss Universe pageant.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25626777/

Are you superstious? I am have never been superstious myself but I have always been intrested in the origins of it. I find it intresting but some of my husbands family members think I am just plain weird. My husband works with a guy who is very superstious and I always find conversations with him pretty intresting. He cant believe that I am not superstious but I am always telling him that he can overboard a little bit.

But do you think that you have a superstious nature or not?

Hi everybody!!!! I think this is a great site and I am so glad I signed up. I thought I would introduce myself and try to make some more friends. Everybody seems really friendly so I am hoping to make alot of great friends.

I am a 36 year old stay at home mom with four great kids and a awesome husband. I love spending time with my family, chatting online, shopping, reading, music,movies, cooking, collecting anything under the sun.