Tag: Bananas

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  How to Tattoo a Banana: A Non-Toxic, Waste-Free Art Project

  For those who can't stop playing with their food, here's how to turn a banana into a green, fleeting work of art.

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  From Shoe Shining to Skin Smoothing: 7 Uses for Overripe Bananas

  Just because a banana has passed its prime is no reason to feed it to the garbage can. Here's how to show old bananas some love.

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  Ask Pablo: What's The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?

  In our globalized world, products travel halfway around the world all the time. Water is shipped from

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  Families Sue Chiquita for More Than 4,000 Murders in Colombia

  Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than 4,000 Colombians murdered

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  Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail (Slideshow)

  She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the

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  Stunning Food Magnification Photos Reveal Your Meal in Microscopic Detail

  Caren Alpert spent 18 years as a photo editor and food photographer before turning her artist's eye to the things we see every day but never look closely at: What we eat. She uses scientific equipment to magnify and capture the striking surfaces of ever

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  Sustainable Dreaming (and Eating) in the Jungles of Costa Rica

  One afternoon in March of 1995, I was on a family vacation in Costa Rica and witnessed something that changed my life forever. As I drove through the Southern Caribbean coast I witnessed a playground full of indigenous children getting sprayed by a

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  9 Ways to Get Naturally Gorgeous Skin Without Spending a Cent

  Forget chemical peels, surgical face-lifts, Botox, or expensive hopes-in-a-jar. You can attain fresh, glowing skin by following a few simple directives and getting a little crafty around the kitchen.

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  Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology

  Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold. They

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  LA Film Festival Abuzz with Green Documentaries

  With 200 films from 30 countries, the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 18 to 28) in Westwood near UCLA, seems far from Hollywood. The non-profit that organizes the event "champions the cause of independent films," and though Public Enemies with

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  100 Green Uses for Common, Everyday Products

  The average household has products for just about every condition or problem known to man or woman. A crème for pimples, a syrup for coughs, a capsule for headaches, a liquid for bugs. It has got to the point where folks need

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  Wrapped to Go, Please: Research Hopes to Improve Banana Leaf Food Wrappers in Sri Lanka

  The bane of over-packaging, especially with materials which are not biodegradable and renewable isn't just something which is confined to wealthy nations. Though banana leaves have been traditionally used to wrap food, or to eat off of,

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  Eco-Knitting for the Adventurous

  For the crafty out there in the audience, Shannon Okey, author of more than 10 knitting books, now launches a new book for "alternative" fibers - Alt Fiber: 25 Projects For Knitting Green With Bamboo, Soy, Hemp and More. Not sure

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  The "Real" Cost of Bananas: Crop Dusting and Toxic Fungicides in Costa Rica

  A common topic when discussing environmental issues is the acronym "NIMBY," meaning "Not in My Backyard." This simple phrase refers to the

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  Latin American Banana Farmers Sue Over Pesticides

  At least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama have filed five lawsuits in the United States. The farmers claim that exposure in the 1970s to dibromochlorpropane (DBCP), a

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  Fur Farms and Banana Rice Pudding

  Researching on one of our primary technical sources, Ebay, we discovered evidence of a long abandoned effort at genetic engineering. Apparently some frankenfarmer long ago came up with way to grow fur in rows...like plants. Kidding. But, no joke,

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  British MPs Bananas Over Fair Trade

  Labels need to be placed on everything from bananas to T-shirts to show how much people in developing countries were paid to produce them, say Members of Parliament in the U.K.

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  Do You Know Where Your Banana Has Been?

  This is the question that Dole is asking their consumers. And they've got the answer! Now on the Dole Organic website, consumers can "travel to the origin of each organic product" Dole produces. By entering the three digits Farm Code located in