The cigarette companies figured it out. After having addicted adults to tobacco products, Big Tobacco diversified into sugary foods and commenced a systematic effort to addict children to sugar. Only now are we discovering how food and tobacco companies have been deploying sophisticated advertising techniques to addict the nation’s children to sugar. Make no mistake about … Read more
Produce prices fluctuate. Sometimes dramatically. Take celery. Normally, you can buy a stalk of this ubiquitous vegetable for about $1. Yet, currently, its price is 400X higher — closer to $5 in some states. The culprit: rains in California washed out much of the nation’s celery crop. The same fate befell strawberries. Throughout the … Read more
Carbon monoxide and smoke detectors are found in just about every American home, yet most people have no idea how to use them correctly! Because they are rarely located or maintained properly, homeowners suffer the plight of false alarms. Even the new generation of smart detectors are not immune from the beeping and chirping that … Read more
It isn’t often that a coffee pod earns its own viral parody, but Keurig and its K-Cup coffee pods have been controversial for a number of years….and deservedly so. The company and its coffee pods have been accused of being unsafe, environmentally irresponsible, overly expensive and anti-competitive. Keurig (later purchased by Green Mountain Coffee) introduced … Read more
You are beginning to get tired of sending SDG&E your hard-earned dollars and want to do something. Our suggestion: stop using so much of the stuff that SDG&E sells you by getting a home energy audit. Oddly enough, there are a number of state incentive dollars available to people who want to reduce their energy … Read more