The aluminum-clad wood house is 8.2 feet wide by 9.8 feet long by 11.5 feet high. It features two rainwater tanks attached to a boiler, a composting toilet, triple-glazed windows and insulated walls that can withstand temperatures from minus 10 degrees to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Electricity comes from three rechargeable batteries that plug into an external power source. Diogene is expected to be produced in three years and will cost about $45,000. A deluxe model with rooftop photovoltaic panels will be about $75,000. The prototype can be seen on Vitra’s campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

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Here is a list of companies who make many or even the majority of all their products without GMOs. This list is provided courtesy of the Non-GMO Project.

365

479 Degrees

A. Vogel

Adams Vegetable Oils

Agrana

Agricor Inc.

Ah!Laska

Alexia

Alter Ego

Alverado Street Bakery

Amande

Amelia

Among Friend’s

Amy’s Kitchen

Andalou Naturals

Angie’s Artisan Treats

Annie’s

Ariven Planet

Arrowhead Mills

Artisan Bistro

Artisan Bistro Home Direct

Atlantic Organic

Atlantic Rose

Attune Foods

Autumn Sky wild

Back to Nature

Bainter Extra Virgin Sunfllower Oil

Bakery On Main

Barbara’s

Barlean’s Organic Oils

Barnana

Barney Butter

Basic Food Flavors, Inc.

Beach Bum Foods

Beanfields

Beanitos

Bearitos

Berlin Natural Bakery

Better Bean

BetterStevia

Bhakti Chai

Biad Chili Products

Bites of Bliss

Blue Diamond

Blue Print

Bold Organics

Bora Bora

Boulder Canyon Natural Foods

Brad’s Leafy Kale

Brad’s Raw for Paws

Brad’s Raw Chips

Brad’s Raw Crackers

Brad’s Raw Onion Rings

Braga Organic Farms

Bragg

Brand Aromatics

Bridgewell Resources

Bubbies

Blue Natural

Cabo Chips

Cadia

Cal-Organic Farms

Cafia Farms

California Olive Ranch

Canfo Natural Products

Canyon Bakehouse

Cape Cod Select

Catania

Cave Chick

Cedar’s

Central Market Organics

Chappaqua Crunch Granola

Cheweco Organics

Chez Marie, Inc.

ChiaRezza! OMG Foods Inc

Choice Organic Teas

Chosen Foods

CHS Oilseed Processing

Chunks O’ Fruti

Ciao Bella Gelato

Ciranda

CleanVia

Coconut Secret

Cocozia

Cool Cups

Coral LLC

Country Choice Organic

Crispy Cat

Crofters

cruncha ma•me

Crunch Master

Curtie’s Juice

Dave’s Gourmet

David’s Unforgettables

Deli-catessen

Della

Desert Essence

Doctor in the Kitchen

Doctor Kracker

Dr. Arenander’s BrainGain & Oral Care

Dr. Bronner’s Magic

Dream

Drew’s LLC

Dulsweet

Earth Balance

Earth’s Best

EatPastry

Eatsmart

EcoTeas

Edazen

Eden

Edward & Sons

Eighth Wonder

Emerald Cove

Emile Noel

Emmy’s Organics

Emperor’s Kitchen

Endangered Species Chocolate

Ener-G Foods

Engine 2

Enjoy Life Foods

Envirokidz

EO

Erewhon

Essential Living Foods, Inc

Everyday Superfoods

Fairfield Specialty Eggs

Familia

FanciFood

Fantastic World Foods

Farm to Table Foods

Farmer’s Market

Farmhouse Culture

Field Day

Field Roast Grain Meat Company

Fillmore Farms

Fiordifrutta

Flamous Organics

Flax USA

Flora

Follow Your Heart

Freekeh Foods

Freekehlicious

Freeline Organic Foods

Fresh & Easy

Frey

Frontier

Froovie

Fruit Bliss

Fruit Chia

Fry Group Foods

Fungi Perfecti, LLC

Funky Monkey Snacks

Garden Bar

Garden of Eatin’

Garden of Life

gimMe

Gin Gins

Gingras XO

Giving Nature

GL Soybeans

Global River

GlucoLift

Gluten Free Pantry by Glutino

Glutino

Gnu Foods

Go Raw

Golazo

GoMacro, Inc

Good Health Natural Foods

Good Karma

GoodBelly

GoOrganic/GoNaturally

GoPicnic

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Grain Place Foods

Grains of Wellness

Green Gem

Green Island Rice

Green Mountain Gringo

Green Mustache

Grimmway Farms

Growing Naturals

Guayaki

Guiltless Gourmet

Haig’s Delicacies

Haiku

Hail Merry

Hapi Foods Group Inc.

Happy Baby Pouches

HappyTot

Harvest Bay

Haute Cuisine

Health is Wealth

Health Warrior

Heavenly Organics

Herbal Zap

High Country Kombucha

Hiland Naturals

Hilary’s Eat Well

Himalania

HimalaRose

HimalaSalt

Hodgson Mill

Hol-Grain

Home Appetit

HomeFree

House Foods

Houweling’s Tomatoes

Ian’s

Imagine

Immaculate Baking

Immortality Alchemy

Imperial Gourmet

Indianlife

Intiyan

It Tastes Raaw

Jaali Bean

JaynRoss Creations LLC

Jeff’s Naturals

Jessica’s Natural Foods

Jolly Llama

JustFruit

Kamut

Keller Crafted Meats

Kettle Foods

Kettlepop

Kiji

KIND Healthy Snacks

Kiwa

Konriko

Koyo

Kur Organic Superfoods

La Reina

La Spagnola

La Tolteca

La Tourangelle

Lafiya Foods

Lassens

Laughing Giraffe Organics

Laurel Hill

Lekithos

LesserEvil

Let’s Do

Licious Organics

Lillabee Allergy Friendly Baking

Little Duck Organics

livingNOW gluten-free

Loeb’s

Louts Foods

Lucy’s

Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss

Lundberg Family Farms

Mac-n-Mo’s

Made in Nature

Madhava

Mamma Chia

Manitoba Harvest

Marconi Naturals

Maria & Ricardo

Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce

Mariner Biscuit Company

Martha’s All Natural

Marukan

Marukome USA

Mary’s Chicken

Mary’s Gone Crackers

Mary’s Little Garden

Mary’s Organic Chicken

Mary’s Organic Turkey

Mary’s Pasture Raised Chicken

Maui Maid

Mediterranean Organic

Mediterranean Snacks

MegaFood

Melt Organic

Metabolic Response Modifiers (MRM)

Mighty Mustard

Mighty Rice

Mighty-O Donuts

Mindful Meats

Minsa

Minsley

Miracle Noodle

Miso Master

Modesto WholeSoy Co.

Momo’s

Montana Specialty Mills, LLC

Mori-Nu

Mt Vikos

Muesli Munch

Multiple Organics

MXO GLOBAL INC.

My Chi Delights

Naked Coconuts

Naosap Harvest

Napa Valley Naturals

Nasoya

Nathan’s

Native Forest Distributed by Edward & Sons

Natural Directions

Natural Habitats

Natural Nectar

Natural Sea

Natural Tides

Natural Vitality

Naturally Splendid Enterprises Ltd

Nature Built

Nature Fed

Nature Way

Nature’s Express

Nature’s Path

Navitas Naturals

Nejaime’s

Nest Fresh

New Chapter

New England Naturals

New Organics

New York Superfoods

Nexcel Natural Ingredients

Nexcel Soy

Niagara Natural

NibMor

Nordic Naturals

North Coast

NOW Foods

NOW Healthy Foods

NOW Real Food

NOW Real Tea

Nu Life Market

Numi Organic Tea

Nummy Tum Tum

NurturMe

Nutiva

Nutrigold®

Nuts About Granola

Oh Baby Foods

Old Wessex

Oleicus/Oleico

Once Again

One Degree Organic Foods

One World

Organic Baby

Organic Planet

Organic Valley

Organicville

Oriya Organics

Ozery Bakery

Pacific Natural Foods

Pacific Northwest Farmers

Paisley Tea Co

Palo Root Tea

Pampas Rice / Organic Latin

Pan De Oro

Pascha

Pastorelli Food Products Inc

Peace Cereal

PEACOCK

Peanut Butter & Co.

Peeled Snacks

Peggy’s Premium

PJ’s Organics

Planet Rice

Plum Organics

Popcorn, Indiana

Popcornopolis

Powbab

President’s Choice

PROBAR

PuraSource

Pure

Pure Country Pork

Pure Eire

Purely Decadent

Purely Elizabeth

Pyure Brands

Q.bel

Qrunch Foods

Quinn Popcorn

R.W. Knudsen

Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems

Rapunzel

RAU

Red Hat Co-operative Ltd

Reese

Revive

RiceSelect

Righteously Raw

Rigoni di Asiago Honey

Rishi Tea

Rising Moon Organics

Risodipasta

Rivara

ROBE and Riverina Natural Oils LLC

Roots Route 11

Royal Hawaiian Orchards

Rumiano Family Cheese

Runa

Ruth’s Foods

RW Garcia

Sacha

Saffron Road

Sage V Foods

Sainthood Herbs

Salba Smart

Sally’s Smart Foods

Salute Santé!

Sambazon

San-J

Santa Cruz Organic

Scratch and Peck

SeaSnax

Secret Squirrel

Seven Stars Farm

Sharkies

Shortstacks

Silk

Silver Hills Sprouted Bakery

Simple Origins

Simply Soy Yogurt

Simply Suzanne

Sir Kensington’s

SK Food

Skout

Snyder’s of Hanover

So Delicious Dairy Free

Sol Cuisine

Somersault Snack Co.

Sophie’s Kitchen

Source

Soyatoo

Spectrum

Spectrum Ingredients

Spicely

Squarebar

Stahlbush Island Farms

Stahlbush Island Farms Ingredients

Stark Sisters Granola

Stash Teas

Stiebrs Farms Go-Organic Eggs

Stone Buhr Flour Company

Straus Family Creamery

Stretch Island Fruit Co

Suja Juice

Sun Cups

SunE900

Sunfood Superfoods

SunRidge Farms

Sunset

Sunset Kidz

Sunshine Burger

Superberries

Surf Sweets

Sushi Sonic

Sweet Sass Foods

Sweet Tree

Sweet Leaf

TAMBOR

Taste of Nature

Tasty Brand

TeaPops

That’s It.

The Better Chip

The Chia Co

The Fresh Market

The Ginger People

The Pure Wraps

The Republic of Tea

The Scoular Company

The Simply Bar

The Solio Family

Theo Chocolate

Third Street, Inc.

Three Farmers

Tiny But Might

TOMMYS

Tonnino

Trace Minerals Research

Traditional Medicinals

Tree of Life

Tropical Traditions

Tru Joy Sweets

truRoots

truwhip

Turtle Island Foods

Two Leaves Tea Company

Two Moms in the Raw

TwoFold

Udi’s

Union Market

Upfront Foods

Van’s Natural Foods

Vegga

Veggie-Go’s

Venus

VerMints

Veronica Foods

Viana

Victoria

Vigilant Eats

VitaV

Viterra

Watts Brothers

Way Better Snacks

Wayfare

Weetabix

Western Foods

WestSoy

Whole Alternatives

Whole Earth

Whole Harvest

Whole Pantry

Wholesome Chow

Wholesome Sweeteners

WholeSoy & Co.

Wild Veggie

Wildbrine

Wildwood

Willamette Valley

Wingfoot

Wisdom of the Ancients

Woodstock

XO Baking Co.

Yamasa

Yoga

Yogavivie

Zema’s Madhouse Foods

Ziggy Marley Coco’Mon

Ziggy Marley Hemp Rules

Zing Bars

Zulka

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If you are a vegan or vegetarian with a secret stash of candy, jelly beans or dark chocolate, join the club. A constant craving for carbs with occasional headaches, muscle or joint pain may be due to a slight deficiency of protein.

The symptoms of a severe protein deficiency include:

• Edema (swelling)
• Thinning brittle hair and/or hair loss
• Ridges in finger and toe nails
• Skin rashes; dry skin
• Weakness
• Constant Fatigue
• Muscle soreness and cramps
• Slow healing
• Skin ulcers
• Sleep issues
• Frequent headache
• Nausea
• Fainting
• Depression/anxiety

Sooo, what can we do to reverse this condition? Carnivores and omnivores simply chow down on anything that moves. Vegans and vegetarians have a slightly more complicated problem, but one that’s nonetheless manageable. Here’s a list of protein sources found in Kingdom Plantae:

• Seeds, sprouted
• Nuts
• Beans
• Lentils
• Whole grains (in order from highest to lowest protein content): Wheat, amaranth, oats, rye, triticale, teff, spelt, wild rice, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, millet, sorghum, corn, rice.
• Soy
• Peas
• Peanuts
• Spinach
• Potato
• Sweet potato
• Algae
• Seaweed

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Want to know why GMO foods are not labeled as such? The following “Representatives” have voted against legislation that would require truth in labeling. Well, we each have a vote too.

Alexander (R-TN), Ayotte (R-NH), Baldwin (D-WI), Barrasso (R-WY), Baucus (D-MT), Blunt (R-MO), Boozman (R-AR), Brown (D-OH), Burr (R-NC), Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Chambliss (R-GA), Coats (R-IN), Coburn (R-OK), Cochran (R-MS), Collins (R-ME), Coons (D-DE), Corker (R-TN), Cornyn (R-TX), Cowan (D-MA) ,Crapo (R-ID) ,Cruz (R-TX) ,Donnelly (D-IN), Durbin (D-IL) ,Enzi (R-WY) ,Fischer (R-NE) ,Franken (D-MN), Gillibrand (D-NY), Graham (R-SC), Grassley (R-IA), Hagan (D-NC), Harkin (D-IA), Hatch (R-UT), Heitkamp (D-ND), Heller (R-NV), Hoeven (R-ND), Inhofe (R-OK), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), Johnson (D-SD), Johnson (R-WI), Kaine (D-VA), Kirk (R-IL), Klobuchar (D-MN), Landrieu (D-LA), Lee (R-UT), Levin (D-MI), McCain (R-AZ), McCaskill (D-MO), McConnell (R-KY), Menendez (D-NJ), Moran (R-KS), Nelson (D-FL), Paul (R-KY), Portman (R-OH), Pryor (D-AR), Risch (R-ID), Roberts (R-KS), Rubio (R-FL), Scott (R-SC), Sessions (R-AL), Shaheen (D-NH), Shelby (R-AL), Stabenow (D-MI), Thune (R-SD), Toomey (R-PA), Udall (D-CO), Vitter (R-LA), Warner (D-VA), Warren (D-MA), Wicker (R-MS)

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As much as he enjoys talking about design, what Jay Scaafer really wanted to talk about in this interview was the politics of tiny houses. Why building and zoning codes are stacked against tiny houses, how the costs of purchase and upkeep compare to the big houses he calls “debtors’ prisons”, and why, when the Big One shakes the land around San Francisco Bay, he’d rather be in his tiny house than anywhere else.

“Mr. Thompson, don’t you want kids to be healthy so they can live a long and healthy life?” This is how CEO Don Thompson was seriously grilled by a 9-year-old girl at Thursday’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Oak Brook, Ill. Hannah Robertson stood and lectured the CEO of one of the world’s biggest brands. “I don’t think it’s fair when big companies try to trick kids into eating food. It isn’t fair that so many kids my age are getting sick,” she said – blaming McDonald’s for unfairly targeting kids with advertisements for food that isn’t good for them.
We certainly hope Mr. Thompson learned a little something, McDonald’s needs kids more than kids need McDonald’s.
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Last week, the U. S. House of Representatives voted, by a count of 285-144, to approve a three-month extension of the debt limit in a bill that concurrently pressures lawmakers to adopt a budget or have their pay withheld. The bill, known as the No Budget No Pay Act of 2013, directs both chambers of Congress to adopt a budget resolution for fiscal year 2014 by April 15, 2013. If either body fails to pass a budget, members of that body would have their paychecks put into an escrow account starting on April 16 until that body adopts a budget. Any pay that is withheld would eventually be released at the end of the current Congress even if a budget doesn’t ever pass. Is this a joke?

No, it’s just another example of Our Legislature’s deceptive practices. This is one of the best examples of the difference between the way a government treats it’s subjects, and how self-serving politicians treat themselves. For most of us, no work means no pay. It doesn’t mean our un-earned pay is held in a savings account to collect interest, or as security for a loan. It means, if we don’t do our job, we lose our job, and any money withheld is gone forever.

Our position is simple. If these so-called public servants don’t do their friggin’ job, they should forfeit their pay. No escrow, no pay for the lapsed time, period. Apply their forfeited pay towards the deficit they created and as restitution for their breach of trust while habitually dipping into the Social Security Trust Fund. We all need to understand their true motivations for putting Social Security in play. They don’t plan to make the trust fund whole, for the money they stole. They squandered our security by paying their puppeteers through tax gimmicks. No matter which political persuasion we each embrace, we can at least agree on the fundamentals, that poli + tics = many + blood sucking creatures.

We cannot go directly after the pay of our pampered politicians. After all, each branch of government has all kinds of extra-constitutional conveniences and immunities borrowed from the days when the King and the Pope were considered infallible. We can, however, hold every legislator accountable for any pay they take from the escrow fund, and for all the ways they have prostituted themselves politically. We can force them to answer for it at all future political events. We can follow them and follow up with questions about their automatic pay raises. We can teach the lemming-like press to ask probing questions. And we can eventually pry the most self-serving incumbents from their form fitting-seats.

Let’s get it done! Contribute your opinion to this web log. Subscribe, to consider a variety of viewpoints in a world of competing ideas. Post your favorite opinions to Facebook and Google+. Tweet and re-tweet those posts and comments that resonate the most with you. And, don’t forget to help us build the School of Statesmanship while calling upon our elected representatives to start acting in accordance with the principles of true statesmanship.   —  Robert H. Kalk
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The Filabot brings a miniature recycling plant to your desktop, grinding down everyday plastic waste and transforming it into ready-to-use material for your 3d printing. Water pipes, drink bottles, plastic wrappers and Lego bricks can be fed into the machine which grinds, melts and extrudes the plastic into a filament of either 3mm or 1.75mm diameters. It can also melt down unused 3D prints, allowing for increased experimentation..
Filabot brings affordability and sustainability to 3D-printing. The debut model is still under development and no official price has been announced. The company will launch a range of machines, at different levels of completion. Users can adapt and develop their own kit – from the Filabot Core (which comes without a grinder), to the open-source Filabot Wee, which users can build from downloadable plans.
The home-manufacturing revolution is well under way. And, thanks to an invention by American college student Tyler McNaney, it’s affordable.
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When we align our objectives with the Divine will, when we strive for the attainment of a worthy goal, when we begin our work with a well defined plan, and when we have ability to work together with others effectively, we have already achieved the trajectory for success. For we know that “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

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The 2013 edition of New Nutrition Business’s trend-spotting report, 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health, indicates natural foods and ingredients will continue to see an upward trend in product development.
The report, conducted by German-based Kampffmeyer Food Innovation, highlights consumer research that shows 74% of people surveyed thought that ‘natural’ meant ‘healthier.’
Several product categories appear to be building on the strength of the natural trend including.

• Coconut water –In the US sales of coconut water jumped by more than 100% to at least $200 million in the year to September 2012.
• Snacking nuts –Retail sales grew from zero to more than $400 million from 2008 to 2012.
• Greek yogurt – Explosive growth of Greek yogurt in the US has been powered by the Chobani brand, with annual sales of over $1 billion four years after launch.

The 10 Key Trends in Food, Nutrition & Health 2013 report identifies and analyses the 10 major forces that will define the food and beverage industry in the coming year.
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The lamps of yesteryear, incandescents, produce light when electricity heats a thin filament. This causes it to glow. The quality of light is pleasing to many. But the lamps only last about 1,500 hours at best. They’re also inefficient. Roughly 90 percent of the energy is emitted as heat rather than light. Full,  partial, or pending bans on incandescants are now in effect for much of the world, including the European Union. So, for now, expect incandescents to become harder to find.
At present the most widely used alternative to incandescents is the spiral-shaped compact fluorescent lamp, or CFL. It is filled with gas that creates light when electrons from the power source flow into the tube and collide with the gas excitable molecules. CFLs have acquired a bad reputation. There were exaggerated longevity claims, the bulbs don’t dim, they produce an unappealing color, and they contain toxic mercury.
Enter the future. LEDs are digital, they are easier to dispose of, and they last longer. They are following an innovation curve akin to other high-tech items like computers and digital cameras. LEDs are semiconductors, and like all solid-state technology, they tend to get better and cheaper as time passes. Organic LEDs, or OLEDs, have carbon based diodes. These lights could be powered for decades on a single small battery. They could be produced on flexible plastic sheets to hang virtually anywhere. They also don’t require an old fashioned socket. For this reason, developing nations are likely to be the first adopters, with Europe and the US playing catch-up.
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