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Last login: 13 hours agoOrganicpicks: Organicpicks is a 38 year old woman from California, USA.; Likes 641 pages, 10 videos, 8 photos • 97 fans • Received 23 reviews; Member since Nov 25, 2007

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Obamas crime? Acting too presidential - Los Angeles Times: Aug 4, 10:33am 9 reviews politics
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia4-2008aug04,0,2648035.story; Well said.

The New York Times & Log In: Aug 3, 11:10pm 2 reviews business, cooking, food
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/business/02food.html?em; Interesting strategy by Whole Food during a time that food prices has become the topic du jour

Honduras Promises To Invest In Its Farmers : NPR: Aug 3, 11:05pm 1 review agriculture
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92872490; Fully support countries sustain their own food system.

"Twenty years ago, the international institutions told us that there was no sense, you know, in producing grain," Galo says. "We better buy them and bring them from outside. In the last two decades, grain producers went broke."

Too Fit to Be President? - WSJ.com: Aug 1, 10:01am 5 reviews humor, politics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today; I hope WSJ wrote this as a JOKE.

Marketplace: Solar breakthrough simplifies storage: Aug 1, 12:11am 3 reviews alternative-energy
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/31/solar_storage; Too good to be true?

Overland in a VW Camper (Westfalia) through Mexico, Central America, South Ameri…: Jul 29, 12:01pm 4 reviews travel
http://www.vwvagabonds.com/; Imagine the let down after finishing each trip. But then again if the working in-between trip is just a means to an end, anyone can get through it.

Americas Most Walkable Neighborhoods - Walkability Rankings of the Largest 40 U.…: Jul 29, 12:39am 2 reviews transportation, city-planning, walk
http://walkscore.com/rankings/; From the page: "Walk Score ranks 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities to help you find a walkable place to live."

Love SF, NY and Boston!

Energy efficiency, electricity, power plants | Salon News: Jul 27, 10:15pm 3 reviews environment, energy
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/28/energy_efficiency/; Proud to be a Californian, at least from energy efficiency perspective.

From the page: "While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California. If all Americans had the same per capita electricity demand as Californians currently do, we would cut electricity consumption 40 percent. If the entire nation had California's much cleaner electric grid, we would cut total U.S. global-warming pollution by more than a quarter without raising American electric bills. And if all of America adopted the same energy-efficiency policies that California is now putting in place, the country would never have to build another polluting power plant."

Eco Worrier: How can I persuade my husband to use a push mower? - Times Online: Jun 17, 11:08pm 1 review gardening, tools
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3903468.ece; Leave it to the Brits to make everything funny, even a push mower.

From the page: "How can I persuade my husband to use a push mower? Target his weakness. Is he a touch sensitive about his growing tummy? Point out that according to Which? magazine, cutting a lawn with a push mower allows a 60kg person to burn 360 calories an hour. If your husband counts the pennies, emphasise that it costs an average of 20p every 100ml of fuel for a mower with a petrol tank and about 4p for every 20 minutes that you use a 1700W electric mower."