Radical Noesis - Thinking outside the box

Carnival of the Green #3 is up at SustainaBlog, and Jeff points us to a show I didn't know about called Earthworms. Looks like this week's episode covered America Recycles Day, which was November 15, Victoria's Secret's use of paper that comes from the Northern Boreal Forests, and a cooperative partnership called Black Energy that seeks to provide "utility commodities - electricity and natural gas - to African American consumers in cooperative partnerships that provide rate-hike protections and even discounts to blackEnergy's customers in a deregulated utility environment, while also returning a portion of the profits from these transactions to non-profits working to improve health, foster the arts and culture, and safeguard social justice in the black community."

This week's Living on Earth discusses some great, timely topics: The lies of big oil, organic turkey for Thanksgiving, and the release of 16 genetically pure bison into a new wildlife preserve in the US.

Earthwatch Radio has some bad news about coral reefs:

Coral reefs around the world have been suffering from pollution and warm water, and a research project in the Caribbean Sea suggests these are relatively new problems. A study of reefs near Belize suggests that they're declining now in a way that has not occurred for thousands of years.

Also the effects of 500 years of mining Mercury on a community in Eastern Europe and the effects on the Rockies from our voracious appetite for energy.

Dori and Val at More Hip than Hippie are also "talking turkey," including some alternatives to Turkey:

# Tofurkey
# Roasted Squash stuffed with cornbread stuffing
# Garlic Mashed Potatoes
# Pumpkin Pie (We tried Truly Natural Pumpkin Pie: this is an extremely yummy pie with no synthetic preservatives, artificial colors, flavors and additives. What else is it missing? Conventionally refined sugars or synthetic sweeteners. It's downright tasty.
Learn about their product at www.whollywholesome.com)
# Vegetarian Gravy - Leah's Nutritional Yeast Gravy (adapted from The Farm Cookbook)
1/3 cup nutritional yeast (available in the bulk section of your natural foods market)
1/3 cup organic flour
1/4 cup canola oil
Water
Tamari, fresh ground pepper and Tabasco to taste.

Lightly brown the flour in a heated pan. Stir in remaining ingredients. Add water to right consistency (your preference). Season with tamari, fresh ground pepper and Tabasco to taste. Enjoy!

I'll be having free-range, organic turkey this year, which I'm pretty excited about. My family was allll about my ideas for my local and organic Thanksgiving meal this year, which I'll be detailing later this week.