Perhaps since the diet crazes of the 1970s, Americans have been looking to cut back on their intake of sugar. And doctors couldn’t be happier, as they consider the prevalence of sugar in our society a root cause of numerous health problems, including the recent trends in obesity and adult onset diabetes.
Geothermal (sometimes called “geoexchange”) heating and cooling is a technology that relies primarily on the Earth’s natural thermal energy, a renewable resource, to heat or cool a house.
Four years after their daughter’s death, James and Nancy Chuda are funding new research on the link between cancers and the environment.
A trip to ancient Indian ruins yields some bitter truths from past and present administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is both politically embattled and stuck in bureaucratic inertia.
These families don’t just talk about recycling – they live it, every day, even if it means unplugging from the grid.
Milk and soda producers are finding out that reuseable bottles make good economic sense. And satisfied customers agree.
Tom Chappell, the Tom of Tom’s of Maine, set out 22 years ago to make environmentally friendly products and he’s still at it.
Authors Nikki and David Goldbeck, who live in Woodstock, New York, run Ceres Press, a home-based cottage industry that turns out environmental books on subjects like "clean and green" housekeeping. Their new book, Choose to Reuses, is a 450-page guide to living well while reducing one’s load on the Earth. It’s a step-by-step, very specific source material on reusing everything from computer printer ribbons to upholstered sofas.
If you call your event "Eco-Challenge," the last thing you want is bands of environmentalists waving angry, in-your-face placard for the TV cameras at the starting line. But that’s just what happened in April, with the U.S. debut of "adventure racing," inspired by the grueling, French-sponsered Raid Gauloises.
When it comes to illegal dumping from cruise ships, sometimes the best watchdogs are appaled vacationers who catch the action with their video cameras. In 1993, passengers aboard the Regent Sea witnessed and photographed crew members throwing plastic garbage bags in to the ocean 30 miles off the coast of Florida. Also in 1993, a group of fishermen discovered and partially retrieved more than 25 plastic garbage bags floating several dozen miles of St. Petersburg, Florida. The debris was determined to have come from the Regent Rainbow, another ship operated by Regency Cruises, Inc. Regency received a whopping $250,000 fine this spring for violations of MARPOL, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships.
