Here's a treat you've no doubt been denied all your life, but now it's within your reach: a chocolate toilet! Do you chomp on the tank first, or go right for the bowl?

The Energy Smackdown, a high-spirited, good-natured competition among teams of energy-conscious households will mark the end of the most recent campaign — and look forward to its next — Wednesday evening at the Regent Theatre in Arlington Center.

I've recently come in contact with Mats Lederhausen, a former McDonald's leader who has some very interesting, inspiring, and provocative positions on the future, specifically about business but, to me, applicable to our world beyond. I didn't intend to share anything about him today, and don't expect to come back to him in the future.

But this comment, found here, is just plain worth sharing...

The facet I like most about Charlie Radoslovich's Rad Urban Farmers business model is that he is a farmer without any land. From the top, you know he's either a wacko or on to something significant. I'm thinking it's the latter.

He told me he didn't devise the ideas, but he's certainly on the front edge of the wave. If he's successful, think how much land under lawn-grass cultivation could be converted to productive use.

b.good is a four-restaurant chain that wears its principles on its sleeve, which include emphasis on whole foods and community. That makes for likely kinship with the folks at Green City Growers, whom I wrote about for the Globe this week. 

The leaders of the climate change legislation in the House will participate in a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern tomorrow (Wednesday 6/10) organized by 1Sky, Energy Action Coalition, Green for All, and the US Climate Action Network.

To submit proposed questions for responses on the call by House Committee staffers following the briefing, send them now to billquestions@1sky.org

The phone number for the call is 800-391-2548. The passcode is 28643226#.

Joe Romm makes a point I love in an essay today at Climate Progress. 

It does not do to call those on the other side of the climate-change question "skeptics." As he says, they are not skeptics at all — their minds are made up. 

Over at Pragerblog, which I'm going to rename soon into something that reflects the topic matter better, I posted about the small veggie plot we started at our house. On the level of personal sustainability actions, growing one's own food is about as self-sustaining as one can get, on a par with sewing clothing or building shelter. 

I don't have anything to add to this, from Time mag via Yahoo. It's just worth sharing. Four mass animal deaths in four months in Chile.

Climate-change activists are focused on Copenhagen, site in 6 months of worldwide climate discussions, and well we should.