Oil Spill In Santa Barbara, CA

This is why pipelines are so dangerous, because accidents always happen. We need to invest in clean energy! Watch this heartbreaking short clip about the oil spill that just happened, last week, in California. Up to 105,000 gallons of oil have been spilled on the coast, and tens of thousands of?gallons into the ocean. This has been detrimental to sea and land wildlife living in the area. The plant has been known for it’s spotty safety records, and was an accident waiting to happen. Click on the link to read the full article.

Nation’s First Offshore Wind Farm Comes to Rhode Island

Rhode Island is making history, with the first offshore wind farm in North America. Local company, Deepwater Wind, recently announced its plans for a fully funded wind farm off the coast of Block Island, with five wind turbines that will be able to provide 30 megawatts (MW) of power — enough to provide clean energy to all Block Island residents, cutting electric rates in half.

In addition to making history and setting up Rhode Island as a leader in clean energy, the new wind farm will also free Block Island from burning more than a million gallons of dirty diesel each year. Huge Kudos to Rhode Island, and let this be the start of something beautiful for all coastal (and inland) states to follow suite.

Many Probiotics Taken for Celiac Disease Contain Gluten

Celiac Disease can be extremely problematic for people allergic to gluten. The slightest amount of gluten, no matter how microscopic, can affect them. It was found that many people suffering with Celiac Disease tend to take probiotics to maintain their gut health, but they found that some of these supplements cause them to have adverse reactions, as if they ate gluten. Sure enough, after analyzing many top-brands of probiotic supplements, doctors at Columbia found that more than half of the pill samples they took contained gluten in them. Even the brands with claims that they are “gluten-free” written right on the bottle.

Dr. Peter H. R. Green, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University and the author of the new study says, ?The question is: Why are companies putting wheat or barley or rye in probiotic supplements? People use these natural products in an attempt to be healthy. Yet it?s a very poorly regulated industry. Can anyone trust a gluten-free label??

Your Contribution to the California Drought

California farmers produce more than a third of the nation?s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts. To do that, they use nearly 80 percent of all the water consumed in the state.

Here is a really interesting article showing you how much water it takes to produce the foods that we eat, from water guzzlers like meat, dairy, almonds and rice, to less water users like the blueberry. This helps to put everything in perspective, and raises our awareness on how much water we use and what it takes to create our food. It also demonstrates the impact that could be made if more people give up, or reduce, the amount of animal products they consume.

Turtle Die-Offs Remain a Mystery

As hundreds of dead turtles wash up on Flanders Bay beaches in Long Island, officials and marine scientists have been scrambling to determine what?s killing them ? and to investigate any possible connection to the recent deaths of other marine wildlife.

Thousands of dead bunker and at least three dead sea birds?have also been found in the same vicinity as the diamondback terrapin turtles, suggesting that whatever is killing the turtles may have more wide-ranging, alarming consequences.

The Department of Environmental Conservation has collected dead turtles from?the Flanders Bay area and, in conjunction with Cornell, has been searching for the presence of the marine toxin saxitoxin in its samples to determine if that could be the cause of death.