The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Even though it’s made of only three little molecules of oxygen, ozone can be a pretty big topic. Newspaper headlines are confusing: One day ozone is good, the next day it’s bad. In fact, both scenarios are true. Two types of ozone exist, stratospheric and tropospheric, and they differ […]
Creative Ways to Give Your Holiday Paper Use the Cut There’s nothing like the holidays to really crank up the paper frenzy. And a frenzy it is: 20 years after the advent of the computer age, Americans use more paper than ever. Though we constitute only five percent of the global population, we consume 30 […]
Modern Kitchens Try Their Hand at Dairy-less Desserts On the holiday dinner table, a delectable bounty of homemade goodies greets your eye—a veritable sea of fudge, cookies, meringues and mousse stretching out to the horizon of red-and-green tablecloth. Most people would slip into a sublime coma at the very first pass, but if you’re in […]
Antibiotic-Pumped Livestock May Be Breeding Superbugs Lisa Blackshear Slowly, but surely, bacteria are winning. Though they replicate as often as dozens of times a day, bacteria face only about 150 types of antibiotics approved for human use in the past 60 years. Misuse of antibiotics in treating human infections has clearly contributed to the rise […]
Most people link air pollution with industrial smokestacks or trucks belching clouds of diesel exhaust. But the air we breathe while indoors, where most of us spend 80 to 90 percent of our time, is filled with chemicals and particles that can deliver even higher levels of chemical exposure.
Saving Up for a Green Retirement Putting money aside for retirement is an important part of planning for your future. Like most people, you probably want to make sure there’s enough to live comfortably after you’ve stopped working. By choosing an IRA or 401K from the growing field of socially responsible investments, you can not […]
Bill Adams’ tractor goes putt, putt, putt. It’s a 1957 John Deere, the last of the two-cylinder models, and just one of the many venerable pieces of agricultural equipment around the Adams Farm in southern Vermont, which has been under one family’s ownership since 1865. Adams’ tractor has been used for maple sugaring, for sheep […]
If you’ve felt frustration over the American Green Party’s slow uphill battle for voter recognition, you may have registered in the wrong country. Seven members of the Green Party of Aotearoa, New Zealand were voted into office during the country’s elections last November—the first national election the Party had entered independently. The world’s first Green […]
Anchors Away? The word “anchor” suggests the sea, not the land-locked expanse of our nation’s wilderness. But for the past two years, the anchors issue has forced the Forest Service to ride a growing swell of stormy debate over their on-shore use. The anchors invading our wildest places are tinyonly a few bolts, or a […]
The Real Pests? Joe Crozier and Yvette Maiangowi thought that, like many other Americans, they were simply developing seasonal allergies. Within months of moving into their Arizona home, the symptoms began: asthma, headaches and fatigue. Worst affected was four-year-old James: He ground his teeth at night and vomited frequently. “At first we thought these [problems] […]
