A while back, we wrote a post on how farting is a contributing factor to drastic climate change. At the time, we told people to just stop farting altogether (“farting” also meaning leaving enormous carbon footprints). But just when we considered things to be impossible, apparently science CAN conquer nature.

A recent press release says that scientists believe they can stop farting in sheep and cows, perhaps even providing a vaccine to prevent humans from farting as well. No joke. Wonder what this will do for the air freshener industry…

An article in Treehugger details the Osaka Candle Night, an event in which Japanese citizens try to conserve energy by attending events lit entirely by candles. Encouraged by the Ministry of the Environment, these events save an enormous amount of energy, and are slowly becoming popular around the country.

This got me to thinking about how much energy really can be saved through candlelight, and also how pleasing it is to the eye. Try candle.com, a massive online resource for all types of candles and candle holders, and also Maximum Scented, which distributes pretty cool candles made entirely of soy. And try and light your room, or otherwise, with candles. It’ll put a spooky, but exciting, spin on the evening; and who knows, maybe a romantic one too.

When recycling, you often forget what is potentially reusable and what isn’t. Take perfume: While it’s glass bottle is a totally recyclable product, it probably wouldn’t occur to someone to not throw it in the regular trash bin.

As Green Daily reports, certain American department stores are allowing you to bring back your empty perfume bottles for recycling purposes. Let’s hope that more stores catch on, and other perfumes as well.

And maybe we can start having recyclable fragrances as well, by mixing the dregs of each bottle into one super perfume! OK, maybe we’ll hold off on that one for now.

Tired of food products coming from rural farms that allow the presence of chemical products, animal mistreatment, and conveyor belt-filled factories, many city residents in the United States have begun taking up urban farming. That’s right: farms in cities!

This article in Slate cheekily details the urban farming movement, in which young people “chewing on only organic, free-range, locally grown straw, racing outside to move their tractors for street-sweeping,” have begun killing their own chickens and growing their own produce. You might be asking: How this is possible in a city that doesn’t have the geographic locations of a rural setting? Well, it’s possible in the most punk way imaginable, by creating the environment yourself.

Recently, we highlighted reusable water bottles as a hip fashion accessory. However, we’ve found, thanks to the people at Inhabitat, a fashionable water bottle that possesses an extra bonus: a filter that kills viruses!

The Lifesaver Bottle builds off the idea that most viruses are a certain size, and so therefore the filters must be smaller than the viruses themselves. And the filter works without chlorine or any chemicals, giving you the cleanest water possible.

A water bottle that looks cool, protects you from getting sick, and doesn’t taste like a toilet bowl: Consider us sold!

First, by releasing their album In Rainbows online in a name-your-own-price campaign, Radiohead changed the way that music is released in the face of digital piracy. Now, the British quintet has shifted their focus from music distribution to the environmental hazards involved in touring.

Realizing how costly a full-scale tour is to the environment, Radiohead have decided to use the findings done by Best Foot Forward for their 2003 tour and put them to good use. On a new blog, they detail how—through a variety of methods—they plan on making their upcoming tour more environmentally friendly. In one recent post, they even describe a way to have truck drivers use power from the venue to air-condition their trucks!

All of this sounds terrific, just so long as they include “Everything in Its Right Place” in the set list.

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