Next Time Don't Just Watch the Whales, Study Them Last year, Muriel Horacek spent two weeks camping in a cave in China as she monitored an endangered species of monkey. She has also radio-tracked cheetahs by airplane over Namibia, taken water samples from a rowboat in a German lake, and in St. Croix caught the […]
Urban Biofiltration The concrete-and-steel of downtown Toronto is not generally thought of as environmentally friendly. But a number of office buildings in the heart of Canada's largest city have become involved in an exciting new “eco-engineering” application. The air smells sweeter at Toronto's Club Monaco after it installed a 40 square foot "living wall." Over […]
Evidence shows that our meat-based diet is bad for the environment, aggravates global hunger, brutalizes animals and compromises our health…
Maybe humans weren’t designed to eat meat anyway, given our little mouths in relation to head size, unlike carnivores, whose big mouths are all the better for “seizing, killing and dismembering prey.”
Both People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) produce “Vegetarian Starter Kits” that are chock full of recipes and resources. But becoming a vegetarian today is not as hard as it once was. As PETA points out, “The explosion of vegetarian foods means that you can […]
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Delicious Organic Brews Offer a Healthier Alternative Eighty million Americans regularly drink beer, which breaks down to about 23 gallons of the beverage per person every year. One reason the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock was a declining stock of on-board "beere," and beer historian Will Anderson points out that America’s first "help wanted" ad, […]
Researchers Find a Connection Between Parkinson’s Disease and Pesticides The herbicides and pesticides many people trust enough to spray on their gardens and crops have been increasingly linked to the onset of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder that turns the simplest movement into a battle between the brain and the nerves. The first connection […]
Remodeling for a Healthier House You love your home, but it’s not perfect. Maybe it needs a bathroom on the ground floor, a bigger kitchen or another bedroom. Of course, you could move to bigger digs. Or you could do what millions of Americans do every year: stay put and remodel. Indeed, renovation is the […]
Land Trusts Help Protect the Environment and Save Money, Too In the central Iowa town of Ackley, near the banks of the Iowa River, you"ll find Bob deNeui, a submarine engineer-turned-conservationist. You"ll find him fishing for bass or catfish, or he may be out collecting firewood. Sometimes you"ll find him camping in the dense woodlands […]
