Just go to the website below and click the "Play" button under "Consumer Consequences" to find out what impact your lifestyle has on the earth:
http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/

I thought I was doing pretty well, but it turns out eating out a lot makes a much bigger impact that I realized. Yet another reason to make dinner more often...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/review_nm/review_music_singles_dc_1

NEW YORK (Billboard) - One might think that after 20 years of melodic mastery, recently elusive Sarah McLachlan might be out of surprises. Best-of collection "Closer," due October 7, proffers midtempo ballad "U Want Me 2," which delivers an identifiable vocal stamp and comfortably familiar production, a la "Building a Mystery." But the sheer sonic beauty of the track's melody at least equates previous hits, paving the way for McLachlan to re-establish as a radio staple. For all her quality output (and while nothing will surpass mod rock hit but top 40's missed 1993 "Possession"), "Want Me" is the best song she has issued this decade.

Reuters/Billboard

When cake decorating goes very, very wrong:

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com

Only 11 more days 'til fiscal close is over! A happy and scary prospect.