Love Those Lips
With the icy winter winds once again ravaging our lips, a variety of green products can bring eternal spring. Most conventional lip products are petroleum based, and any essential oils are derived from plants grown with chemicals.
UK Pushes for New Climate Treaty Favoring Technology Over Regulation
Against the backdrop of ongoing international climate talks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sources close to British Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed rumors last week that Great Britain is trying to involve the United States in a new international treaty on global warming that emphasizes technological fixes while promoting the development of renewable energy.
Honda Takes Top Honors in Survey of Greenest Vehicle Fleets
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced last week that Japanese automakers continue to lead the pack in terms of lowering emissions and increasing fuel efficiency in their vehicles. Honda, Nissan and Toyota took top honors in the environmental group’s biennial survey of the vehicles made by the world’s top six automakers.
What are the environmental and health risks of genetically engineered foods
Genetic engineering is a technology that manipulates the genes of organisms and transfers them between species. While genetically engineered (GE) foods such as corn and wheat appear identical to their natural counterparts, they differ in that they contain genes from bacteria, viruses, insects, nuts or animals.
I’ve heard that the solvents commonly used in commercial dry cleaning
Studies show that perchloroethylene—the solvent used by the vast majority of dry cleaning establishments—is both hazardous to human health and injurious to the environment. For one, “perc,” as the solvent is commonly known in the industry, can have negative effects
A Mighty Wind
I’m appalled at the NIMBY ("not-in-my-back-yard") opposition to wind power projects like Cape Wind in Massachusetts. How do these graceful wind turbines destroy our view? Are they worse than the endless power lines that stretch across the country, the coal plants and oil refineries, the offshore oil rigs and tankers (and their spills), and the ominous nuclear towers that have become symbols of another impending Chernobyl?
From Corn Waste to Bio-Fuel
While ethanol is cleaner and more efficient to produce than gas, environmentalists often give this alternative fuel the cold shoulder. The ethanol source of the future, some say, should be not the corn kernel but the stalk, cob and other portions of the plant that are currently fed to livestock or left lying on the field.
San Francisco Builds Green
San Francisco Bay-area municipal governments are working to grow sustainable communities, by passing green building ordinances, requiring energy-efficient designs, recycled content and a host of "green" strategies for public projects.
City Kids Learn About the Land
Hawthorne Valley Farm is home to dairy cows, some piglets and a team of biodynamic farmers. There’s also a high-energy bunch of nine-to-15-year-old urbanites cheerfully turning the compost, helping bake sourdough bread in the bakery, milking dairy cows and rising at six a.m. to feed the animals.
Hiding the Bad Gas
A Norwegian environmental group is defying mainstream environmental thinking by supporting the controversial process known as carbon sequestration as a short-term way of tackling climate change.