Naturally Clean
Make your home radiantly clean with Fruits and Passion’s "Art Home" line. These household cleaners are made with a plant-based formula that is readily biodegradable.
Many hotels now ask guests to re-use towels and not request new sheets every day, to save water and energy
Asking guests to re-use towels and keep their sheets for more than one night are just a few of the many ways the lodging industry has been rapidly “greening up” operations in recent years. According to the Green Hotels Association (GHA), a trade group of hotels, motels and inns across the U.S. that is committed to sustainable business practices,
Earth Day Turns 35
On April 22, more than a half billion people around the world will celebrate the 35th annual Earth Day, making it the planet’s largest secular holiday. This will be an opportune time to celebrate progress made and reflect on the many challenges and goals ahead.
Green Life Support
Ben Franklin said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." "The Death Of Environmentalism?" has forced some dialog among green leaders as to why the environmental message isn’t resonating with the public. As I see it, we need to think "outside the green box" and press for serious media reform, profound electoral reform and a re-invented Democratic Party before we can expect to make any headway.
Barbary Macaques: Wrongly Accused?
Threatened by erosion, desertification, overgrazing and global warming, cedar forests in the Moroccan Middle Atlas Mountains are going through a hard time. But what if Barbary macaques, which have inhabited the area for centuries and feed on the top of cedar trees, were also a threat?
The Paiute Mining Disaster
The Yerington Anaconda Mine in northern Nevada was one of the world’s largest producers of copper from 1953 to 2000. Today, nearby residents complain the defunct site is a major polluter. The Yerington Paiute Tribe’s (YPT) Campbell Ranch Reservation is barely three miles north, downwind from the 3,500-acre mining property and squarely in the path of any contaminants that might leave the mine.
Learning from Mount St. Helens
Scientists are applying ecological lessons learned in the aftermath of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption to restore sites that were logged or mined.
Saving the Snow Leopard
Snow leopard pelts command high prizes in the black market fur trade, while bones from these wild cats are in demand as remedies prescribed by traditional Asian medicine. However, half a world away, the snow leopard is being marketed in an entirely different way—one that may help ensure its survival.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Non-Lethal Shelters are the New “Humane Societies”
About five million cats and dogs are killed every year in the U.S. because there is not enough room to house them in adoption centers, and not enough people adopting.
Love Canal Lives
The tree-lined streets have an eeries quietness. The neighborhood, with its orderly rows of World War II-era homes, looks as though there should be activity, but there is none. The grass is cut and the trees and bushes are trimmed, suggesting some civility to the shady streets, but these tasks are preformed by the state to ward off trespassers. Such efforts have plainly been in vain, as many homes are married by graffiti, vandalism and looting.