WOW - My kind of shopping - check it out! Wouldn't this be great? No climbing in and out of clothes to try them on; no messed up hair. And no one else would have actually tried on your garment! No more makeup smears on your favorite selection either! Great invention! And they already have this tech in Japan.... See:
http://www.flixxy.com/future-shopping.htm

Imagining Ecocities: Uses an “imagining” technique to show how badly we have lost the logic of human activity in today’s vase cities. Interesting - and makes a point well. “Cities are the main things we human beings build: the homes, offices, factories, schools, streets and parks gather there, as do the vast supply lines pumping in water, food, lumber, gasoline - and pumping out waste. And yet, the way cities are built, the logic of their internal functions and their connections with resources and natural environment are virtually ignored - they are not seen as potentially whole, living organisms. We can see houses as homes, and so it should be with cities, but even more so.” Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/07/imagining-ecocities.html

Defining what an ecocity is - and what it is not: “Ecocity” is becoming a buzz word like “green”, but what defines a genuine ecocity? Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/07/ecocities-setting-standards.html

This Side of Paradise: Discovering Why the Human Mind Needs Nature: As awareness of humanity's relationship with the environment has increased - buoyed of late by the larger popular concern about climate change - so has empirical evidence for nature's psychological benefits. Scientists now know that nature has a remarkable ability to restore attention, that it soothes aggression, and that it may even ease mild depression. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-side-of-paradise-discovering-why.html

Launch of “Love Food Hate Waste” in Australia: The NSW State Government has launched Love Food Hate Waste - an internationally successful campaign to help thousands of households and businesses reduce growing amounts of food waste (now a massive 40% of the total rubbish in our household bins). Love Food Hate Waste is a partnership programme based on a successful campaign in the United Kingdom which supports households to adopt simple and easy behaviours that work to reduce food waste. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/07/love-food-hate-waste-launches-in.html

40 Years of Earth Day - The Planet then and now: Heralded as a success, the first Earth Day 40 years ago resulted in the implementation of a number of U.S. environmental policies, and the movement quickly went global. But what have we really achieved in those 40 years? World population has almost doubled, from 3.7 billion to 6.9 billion. The amount of land paved over to build houses, cities and roads has increased 75 percent, from 228 million global hectares to 400 million global hectares. The amount of productive forest land required for fuelwood, paper and timber products, has gone up 53 percent to close to 2 billion global hectares. The productive land and sea area we need for food – for fishing, crops and grazing our livestock – has increased 69 percent, to 5.6 billion global hectares. In spite of Earth Day and similar efforts, we are clearly loosing the sustainability battle. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/07/40-years-of-earth-day-planet-then-and.html

Tea a 'healthier' drink than water: Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers. The work in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief that tea dehydrates. Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers, UK nutritionists found. Experts believe flavonoids are the key ingredient in tea that promote health. Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5281046.stm

[Thanks to Pat F, John H, and Cruxcatalyst for the links.]