10 Celebrity Vegetarian Recipes For The Holidays

Between now and New Years, an insane amount of food will be consumed around the world in celebration of the holiday season. To help prepare you for the inevitable request of “bring a dish to pass”, we’ve collected 10 vegetarian recipes from celebrities like Paul McCartney and Boy George (yes, that Boy George) to help [...]

White House State Dinner For Indian Prime Minister Will Be All Vegetarian

Tonight, President Obama will be holding the first official dinner for visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and we’ve got some good news: the menu is totally vegetarian. Chef Marcus Samuelsson along with White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford will be preparing the dinner, which will feature foods like Red Lentil Soup and Roasted Potato Dumplings. Singh [...]

Tweeting Middle Class Joins Major Environmental Protests in China

Photo via the Telegraph There are more protests in China every year--an estimated 100,000 of them--than any other nation. Most of these are orchestrated by the poor, demanding human rights and economic equality--and most are stamped out and covered up by the Chinese government. But now the middle class is getting fed up, too. In this case, with better access to resources like computers and Twitter and the help of h...Read the full story on TreeHugger … Continue

'Mutually Assured Construction' - Multiple Nuclear Power Plant Additions Aligned With Energy Security, Defense, & Now Climate Strategy

South African Nuclear Plant, 2005. Image credit:AFP, Gian Luigi Guercia There is so much planned nuclear power development in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, these days. In the Middle East, Iran is just the tip of nuclear 'iceberg'. Arab Emirates, for example, also is planning nuclear power plant construction in the near future. No...Read the full story on TreeHugger … Continue