What’s In Season?
Approaching Food from a Seasonal Perspective Opens New Worlds of Health and Taste
Whale Connections
Actress Kristen Bell talks about her role in the movie Big Miracle and her connection to saving whales and her love of the environment…
Leather You Can Live With
Leather You Can Live With: The Costs and Benefits of Leather Alternatives…
E’s Green Home Picks: Setting the Mood
From Ambient Lighting to Layering to Plastic-Free Pops
Radiant Heating Comes of Age
Once touted as the future of green home heating, whole-house radiant heat is now largely considered a luxury item or upgrade…
The Great Jellyfish Invasion
Jellyfish, a prominent feature of ancient oceans, have weathered multiple mass extinctions and date back at least 500 million years.
Black Carbon’s Big Impacts
For years, efforts to study and reduce the impacts of climate change have focused on one very specific gas—carbon dioxide (CO2). But when it comes to global warming, other gases and atmospheric particles may play more than just a supporting role. Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution produced mainly from burning biomass, cooking […]
Urban Homesteading’s Dark Side
Wayne Geiger fields up to 10 calls per week about hens and roosters in need of new homes. When Geiger founded Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in 2002, most of the calls he received involved horses, sheep and cattle that were victims of neglect or cruelty. There were almost no requests to help chickens. Geiger blames the […]
Greener Goods Through Etsy Earth
Etsy Gets Earthy
How Green Is That … Ice Melt?
Nearly 20 million tons, or one million truckloads worth, of salt is deposited on America’s roadways each winter…