SCIENCE BUZZ: Natalie Jeremijenko starts an environmental health clinic. Stop by and get concrete remedies and “prescriptions” that make your air quality and water quality better. “People know how to ring up and make an appointment at their health clinic. But they don’t really know what to do about toxins in the air and global warming,” explains Dr. Jeremijenko.

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The Best Links:

1. NYT on Dr. Jeremijenko’s Environmental Health Clinic

STYLE BUZZ: New York Times has a piece on the latest trend in environmentally-conscious home furnishing: furniture that disappears when you’re done with it. Here’s an idea that could really take off, especially when it seems like so much furniture from IKEA is practically disposable. It pained me to have to throw out so much stuff when I decided I didn’t want to live like I was in a college dormitory anymore.

The Best Links:

1. Consciously Imagining a Product’s End Use - But Does Biodegradable Mean “Green”?
2. The Latest and Most Interesting Development in Green and Sustainable Living
3. Consumers Are More Interested in Having a Long-Term Relationship with Their Furniture
4. All the Different Ways to Reuse and Recycle When It Comes to Your Home
5. Stylish Chaise Made Entirely Out of Corrugated Recycled Cardboard
6. Cradle To Cradle: A Book About the Transformation of Human Industry Through Ecologically Intelligent Design

CULTURE BUZZ: Companies are marketing brushtail possum fur as “eco-fur,” arguing that the animal is an invasive, forest-destroying pest. Sure, some animals are pretty annoying, but does that mean we should make vests out of them?

The Best Links:

1. Planet-Friendly Fur? Im-possum-ble..
2. The Thing Is, The People Who Wear Fur Won’t Care
3. Possums Originally Used as Biological Warfare
4. The Possums Will Be Killed Regardless
5. Discussion: What Are the ‘Eco’ Benefits?
6. “Green Luxury Products for the Trust Fund Tree-hugger”
7. We Can’t Imagine This Taking Off in the US
8. Bid to market possums as eco-fur may not work in USA

CULTURE BUZZ: Find out more about ethical and fair-trade flowers for Valentine’s Day. If you met your Valentine off one of those eco-dating websites, some ethical flowers should take you to the next level of “soulmate.”

The Best Links:

1. Help Support Plantlife Using Adopt-a-flower
2. Ethical Valentines Day Gifts
3. “Tell Supermarkets to Stock Eco-Certified Flowers!”
4. Flower Workers Inundated by Chemicals, Must Wear Protective Clothing
5. Buy Ethical Flowers for Valentines Day
6. Don’t Forget Ethical Chocolates, And Other Ways to Green Your V-Day
7. Flowers Flown from African Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint than Those from Europe
8. Large Supermarkets Now Offering Fairtrade and Organic Flowers