Let the Sun Shine In
Solar Products Offer a Clean Alternative
Sleeping Soundly
Organic Cotton May be the Key to a Good Night's Rest It's easy to feel virtuous using 100 percent cotton bed sheets. What could be more pure than bedding made from a natural product, with no artificial fibers? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Mothers & Others For a Livable Planet reports that cotton is the […]
The Cold War
Can Herbal Remedies Keep You From Experiencing Seasonal Misery? 'Tis the season to be merry, especially if you've managed to avoid catching a cold or the flu while those around you have been laid low by the winter crud. Is making it through the cold season unscathed just a matter of good luck, or can […]
In Transit
Corporate Commuter Plans Can Cut Costs–and Hassles Every morning, if you're like 75 percent of American workers, you face gridlocked highways for your solo drive to the office. Why? Because you think that the alternatives, like the train, bus or a car pool, will take money out of your pocket, or just be downright inconvenient. […]
Volunteering Your Vacation
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 […]
The Living Wall
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 […]
The Case Against Meat
Evidence shows that our meat-based diet is bad for the environment, aggravates global hunger, brutalizes animals and compromises our health…
Body of Evidence
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.”
The Gradual Vegetarian
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 […]
A New Profit Motive
The Best Natural Cleaners Get The Job Dine Without A Spectrum Of Irritating Or Toxic Agents.