Rediscovering Sierra Leone
Rediscovering Sierra Leone: Ecotourism Blooms in West Africa
Greener House Paint
Using nontoxic house paint can reduce your family’s exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that pose health risks like asthma, headaches & cancer…
By The Numbers: Penguin Populations
Five of the World’s 17 Penguin Species Face the Threat of Extinction, and Marine Biologists Aren’t Sure How to Save Them….
Mark Sundeen’s Man Who Quit Money Talks About Opting Out
A review of The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
Waking the Giant Discusses Earthly Disruptions to the Environment
A review of Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes by Bill McGuire
Weather Out of Whack
In past years, climate change has been relatively easy for deniers to deny. Most people don’t live alongside glaciers and polar bears, and those long-term projections of impacts—50 years, 100 years—seemed, if not comfortably far off, at least far off enough that they didn’t induce panic. In the national conversation, climate change was soundly trumped […]
Healthy Pets: Fido and Tabby Never Had It So Good
From Organic Pet Foods to Natural Pest Prevention, Pet Owners Are Getting Serious About & Spending Lots of Money on Keeping their Pets Toxin-Free…
Rethinking Evolution
Rethinking Evolution: A review of Darwin’s Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature by Simon G. Powell
Italy’s Eco Mafia
Mafia Are Cashing In On Toxic Dumping and Other Environmental Crimes
Backyard Chickens and Other Springtime Surprises
Perhaps this is the year you’ve decided to finally get on board with the biggest trend in eco homesteading—backyard chickens…