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From Schools to Hospitals, Fresh Healthy Vending Makes Healthy Snacking Easier

1:31 pm in Business & Politics, diet, drinks, fruits & vegetables, green youth by TreeHugger

Fresh Healthy Vending photo Image: Fresh Healthy Vending It seems like a good sign when an eighth-grade girl says this about a vending machine stocked with things like fruit slices, (healthy) granola bars and dairy-free snacks: "All the vending machines I see have candy or soda—things that people would assume the general public wants. But actually the healthy things that are in this vending machine, everybody likes." She's talking about the Fresh Healthy Vending machine that recently came to her Denver school, and that seems to be all the rage....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Astronauts Drink Their Urine in DIY Energy Drink

1:07 pm in conservation, drinks, recycling, Science & Technology, united states by TreeHugger

astronauts drink urine photo Image credit: NASA/Todd Mortenson Unlike most boys, I've never really wanted to be an astronaut. And this latest piece of news just confirms my misgivings. The internet is full of stories that astronauts on the current shuttle mission will be testing a new system for recycling their own pee and sweat into a sugary energy drink. Yum, yum. But it's not all bad. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

How a Cooperative Pub is Keeping a Village Alive (Video)

2:54 pm in drinks, economics, food, local food, united kingdom by TreeHugger

community cooperative pub photo Image credit: Robin Hood Tax From community supported beer to a cooperative effort to build a solar power station on a brewery roof, the British public seem to be on a roll when it comes to combining activism with that popular national pass-time of drinking beer. One village in Yorkshire, for example, has created an innovative model for preserving what is often the very heart of any Br...Read the full story on TreeHugger