Joining the Club
Greening Corporations With Socially Responsible Investment Groups
Fabulous Feng Shui
It’s Certainly Popular, But is it Eco-Friendly? Feng shui is popping up all over popular culture, but is it environmentally friendly? At its core, experts say, feng shui (literally "wind and water") is a way of life that helps us live in harmony with the environment. With roots in ancient Chinese philosophy that saw human […]
Under the Table
San Rafael, California-based Tamalpais NatureWorks also uses toxic-free finishes on its clean-lined furniture.
Jan/Feb 2004
Your cover story "Message in a Bottle" (September/October 2003) draws ironic similarities to the SUV craze. Americans are not buying purity in a glass or open road freedom. They’re buying urban cowboy images and feel-good escapes as they consume regular water and sit in regular traffic.
The Real Bottom Line
In our capitalist world, success in business is measured almost solely by financial profit. Companies that make some of the most dangerous and unhealthy products, like weapons and cigarettes, are exceedingly profitable and thus "successful," even though their products diminish our quality of life.
A Spoon Full of Sugar
What Drug Companies Don’t Want You to Know Several years ago, I went to the doctor feeling tired and stressed out and after a 10-minute visit came home with a prescription for brupopion (brand name Wellbutrin). The doctor and I didn’t discuss possible side effects, alternatives, or many other aspects of my health. It turned […]
Just Like Cheese?
Avoiding "Addiction" with Dairy-Free Alternatives Recently, I lost 15 pounds by eliminating cheese, sweets and alcohol from my diet. Giving up cookies and soy ice cream wasn’t so hard, and switching to unsweetened soymilk was easy. Even eliminating alcohol wasn’t really as big of a challenge as I thought it might be, though I still […]
New Life for Old Floors
New Life for Old Floors: Alternative Materials Add Character to Home Designs. Have you considered wood, cork, linoleum or bamboo?
The Roof of the World
Tourism in Nepal Strikes a Delicate Balance To reach the best place to see Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmatha), from Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu you first take a half-hour flight on a small plane to Lukla, then walk 31 miles to the small city of Namche. The trekking is by foot, up 12,000 […]
Money-Back Guarantee
Consumers and the environment will both lose if Congress doesn’t pass new tax breaks for investing in renewable forms of energy…