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• Bike To Work Without Looking Like A Mess

  By: Briana Rognlin | Comment | Jul 29, 4:26pm ET

  If you’re reading Blisstree, you probably agree with us that a bike is about the most noble way you can get yourself to work. But if it’s not bad bike lanes that stop you from commuting on two wheels, it’s probably the fact that arriving to the office in spandex … More

• Losing Our Cool: Is Air-Conditioning Bad For You?

  By: Briana Rognlin | Comment | Jul 29, 3:34pm ET

  Is air-conditioning bad for you? Stan Cox thinks so. The environmental writer, who just published the book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” says A/C is eating up energy and making us isolated. Air-conditioning accounts for 20 percent … More

• Lose Your Love Handles: We like muffins, but not the kind that bulge out of the tops of our jeans. Check out FitSugar’s tips for getting rid of your muffin top. (Hint: You’re going to have to hit the cardio.)

• 10 Ways to an Eco-Friendly Bedroom: Green Your House Series

  By: Alexa Yablonski | Comment | Jul 29, 2:23pm ET

  Stop dreaming of an eco-safe-haven, and make it a reality with these enviro-chic items for your bedroom. (Y’know, the place where all the magic happens.) For the final post in our Green Your House Series, here are 10 ways to get an eco-friendly bedroom – naturally. ‘Night-night.
  Non-Toxic Bed Rest

  Snoozing on … More

• Oil Spill (Not The Big One): Enbridge Energy Pipeline Burst In Kalamazoo River

  By: Caroline Sloan | Comment | Jul 29, 1:42pm ET

  Just what the environment needs — another oil spill. On Monday, 800,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River, which is a major waterway that flows into Lake Michigan. By Wednesday, the oil had already contaminated 35 miles of river, coating animals in oil and forcing residents out of … More

• Abstinence Video Game for Girls: Worth It?

  By: Caroline Sloan | Comment | Jul 29, 1:25pm ET

  An interactive, life-sized video game has been developed by the Univerisity of Florida to help pre-teen girls practice warding off sexual advances made by peers. The game had a budget of $434,000, which could have funded several sex-ed (or abstinence) programs in middle schools, rather than a game that won’t … More

• Dinosaurs Were Shape-Shifters: Not in the insta-morph, True Blood sense of the word, but in the way that they totally changed appearance from childhood to adulthood — so much so that scientists thought they were different species until now. (via NewScientist)

• Female Condoms: Fighting HIV in Washington, DC

  By: Caroline Sloan | Comment | Jul 29, 1:12pm ET

  In Washington, D.C., about three percent of the population over the age of 12 has HIV or AIDS, one of the highest rates in the country, and an epidemic-proportion. To fight the spread of infection, nonprofits are pushing the female condom. They’ve been approved since 1993, but female condoms have … More

• Cate Blanchett's Solar-Powered Theatre: Daily Do-Gooder

  By: Briana Rognlin | Comment | Jul 29, 8:30am ET

  We like Cate Blanchett for plenty of reasons, but we felt especially compelled to call out her latest work to reduce the carbon footprint of the Sydney Theatre Company. The Academy Award-winning actress and her husband, Andrew Upton, are aiming to make it completely carbon neutral by 2011 – they’re … More

• Florence + the Machine: Video of the Day

  By: Blisstree Staff | Comment | Jul 29, 8:00am ET

  This Dogs Days Are Over song by Florence + the Machine is everywhere from movie previews to TV shows, and it’s totally stuck in our heads. If you can plug in your earbuds and have a listen at your desk today, do. Let’s just hope you don’t wear this much … More

• Flight of the Electric Demoichelle: Photo of the Day

  By: Blisstree Staff | Comment | Jul 29, 7:30am ET

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• Highway Safety Hazards Mean Pedestrian Dangers

  By: Caroline Sloan | Comment | Jul 28, 5:51pm ET

  Tons of communities and subdivisions are surrounded by highways. It’s great when you want to drive somewhere quickly, and not so great when you want to walk or ride your bike instead. This makes being a pedestrian dangerous, especially if they have to cross highways to get to work or … More

• The Oracle Speaks: Global Warming Will Kill All Humans In 100 Years

  By: Caroline Sloan | Comment | Jul 28, 5:37pm ET

  Frank Fenner, a scientist who helped eliminate smallpox, has predicted that human race will become extinct at some point soon, possibly within 100 years. Why? Because of climate change.
  A hundred years seems like a pretty short sentence to hand an entire species (maybe he’s been reading too much Cormac McCarthy?), … More