Last week I showed the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth to an audience in the basement of my church, United Congregational, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was, I imagine, an event mirrored across the country, as the producers of the film have made it very widely available without charge to community groups for free showings.
Millions of people around the world use shampoos, conditioners and dyes on their hair regularly without any discernable harm. But recent studies have linked some of the ingredients in these products to various human health problems
The explosion of the Hindenburg blimp in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937 killed 36 people and was one of the worst air disasters of the period, but hydrogen was probably not the culprit
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Dónde puedo hallar regalos ecológicos para amigos y familia durante las festividades de navidad?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Varios de mis vecinos han instalado calderas exteriores a leña para calefaccionar sus hogares en vez de depender del petróleo o gas natural. Pero, ¿es bueno para la salud el humo creado por estas calderas?
For hundreds of years, cork has been the gold standard for "stopping" wine. But now plastic stoppers and screw tops are challenging the tradition, and the benefits are causing even prestigious vintners and snooty wine reviewers to change their attitude from dismissal to acceptance.
Organic wines are hot, according to Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, wine columnists for The Wall Street Journal. "They’re attracting unprecedented attention both from consumers and from today’s more skilled winemakers," says Gaiter.
In the latest flare-up regarding endangered species, two conservation groups have filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) for refusing to place the mountain plover, a medium-sized grassland bird that has been in decline in recent years throughout the Rocky Mountain West, on the nation’s endangered species list.
The nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council is hailing a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt stricter energy-efficiency standards for nearly two dozen commercial and residential appliances as a victory not only for environmentalists but for the American public.
They say you are what you eat, and that’s the premise of the new book by well-known Princeton philosophy professor Peter Singer, writing with attorney Jim Mason.
Reconciling one’s green values with the urge to shop has never been easy. Most environmental groups today decry Western consumer habits as wasteful and a major cause of ecological degradation in a shrinking world.
