Clouds in Your Coffee
Coffee increases alertness and performance, and even helps prevent some diseases. Coffee’s great! But not any coffee. There are both ethical and environmental issues surrounding coffee, and they get a little bit confusing.
Seeking Sanctuary
Environmentalists worry that modern threats are too much for our fragile national wildlife refuge system and its wild inhabitants to handle…
Slow, But Steady
With the Green Tortoise Bus Line, Getting There is Half the Fun
Pocketbook Power
How Well-Organized Boycotts Change Corporate Policy After biking home from work, eating an organic salad for dinner, and sending off your annual dues to Greenpeace, you decide to kick back with an ice-cold Kirin Beer—not realizing you’re supporting Mitsubishi, destroyer of rainforests. You can’t have a Coke, either, because the company sponsors an aquarium that […]
The Great Supplement Scare
Are Herbal Remedies Under Attack From a Vast International Conspiracy?
Swimming Upstream
New Products Fight the Backyard Pool’s Chlorine Addiction
How To Feed & Care For Your Pet The Natural Way
Why expose Fluffy or Fido to synthetic chemicals when there are so many healthier green options nowadays?
The Biotech Century
Playing Ecological Roulette with Mother Nature’s Designs We are in the midst of a great historic transition into the Biotech Age. The ability to isolate, identify and recombine genes is making the gene pool available, for the first time, as the primary raw resource for future economic activity on Earth. After thousands of years of […]
The Trouble With Meat
In 1992, when he was 11 years old, Damion Heersink of the southeastern Alabama town of Dothan attended a Boy Scout campout, and unwittingly ate a quarter-sized piece of uncooked hamburger. It’s certainly not unusual for kids to eat hamburgers:
Disparaging Meat
“Free speech not only lives, it rocks!” exulted Oprah Winfrey February 26 upon hearing that an Amarilllo jury had dismissed the “mad cow” case against her and co-defendant Howard Lyman of the Humane Society of the United States. The resounding victory came in the first test case of one of the nation’s 13 “food disparagement” […]