“The University of Chicago reports that going vegan is 50% more effective than switching to a hybrid car in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Eating 1 pound of meat is environmentally equal to driving 40 miles in an SUV.” Your Real Carbon Footprint. Statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that animal agriculture is the number one source of methane emissions in the United States. Cutting meat from just one meal a week can make a huge difference – for your health and for the health of the environment.
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Web site of the Week: eVoter
Found on Flickr
Are you ready to vote in next week’s primary? If not, visit eVoter; where you can find your polling place for next Tuesday’s election. After you enter your address you can also view what your ballot will look like and print out your selections to take with you to your polling place.
Web site of the Week: Slave Narratives from MoAD
http://www.moadsf.org/salon/exhibits/slave_narratives/
The Museum of African Diaspora has an online exhibit called Slave Narratives that features audio clips of former slave stories. The site features a short biography about the individual and a personal account of what it felt like to be a slave. You can either listen to the account online or read the transcript online.
If you are interested in this topic also check out “Excerpts from Slave Narratives” from Steven Mintz at the University of Houston or Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass from the Berkeley Digital Library.
Web site of the Week: Sporcle
For some fun over the break, head over to Sporcle to play some mentally stimulating games. Can you name all of the States? What about all of the past Presidents of the United States? You might be surprised!
Women and the National Book Award
On the blog bookish us, Jessi muses, “…focusing only on fiction… From 1989 to 2008, there have been 45 female nominees and 55 male nominees…. But in this same time, there have been 13 male winners and only seven female winners. Between 2005 and 2008, there were six female nominees, 14 male ones, and not a single female winner.” This, in an age of equality and enlightenment–any comment?