Eco Factor: Structures created from recycled plastic bottles encourage youth to kick single use plastic water bottles. Drinking bottled water might keep you in good shape, but the millions of water bottles discarded every day in landfills are spoiling the shape of the environment. To encourage peopl...

Global financial markets are in peril. Panic is gripping Wall Street. The Dow has taken huge dives and continues to stagger. September job loss was the highest in five years and nearly one in six homeowners are under water – owing more on their mortgages than their houses are worth. Times are toug...

We’ve always drunk the tap water here in New Orleans, much to the dismay of some of our friends. Our water supply comes from the Mississippi, which is kind of like the nation’s toilet, they’re fond of pointing out. The implication is that we are drinking from the toilet. The Sewera...

Visit the offical blog and website of novelist, John Fenzel--author of the international suspense thriller, "The Lazarus Covenant."...

Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden About Town suspected. Keep an eye on the comments at former housemate Tim Brunero’s place, “...

June 1: The Minnesota Historical Society is holding a state-wide open house (i.e., free admission) at all of their parks and historic sites. There are eight such sites in the metro: Mill City Museum, the State Capitol, Fort Snelling, Sibley House, Minnehaha Depot, Alexander Ramsey House, Minnesota H...

A soup of pharmaceutical waste spews from the faucets supplying drinking water to 41 million Americans, according to a disturbing study from the Associated Press. At least 24 major cities are affected, including New York, Washington, Boston Chicago, and Los Angeles. Here are some of the key test res...