From the Editors of E Magazine

It’s unclear if America is really prepared to kick its addiction to the 16th and 19th century combustibles of coal and oil. They’re clearly much more addictive than nicotine.

Formula One engineer Gordon Murray of Gordon Murray Design recently released a super-compact and super-efficient car of the future at the UK’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford. It’s called the T.25m and the first running prototypes are due in April 2011.

The nonprofit Women’s Voices for the Earth recently released a report on the dangers of fragrances in household products on to consumer health.

The International Whaling Commission has been debating whether or not they should lift a 25-year ban on commercial hunting in favor of allowing limited whaling rights.

Presented with two equal-priced apples or cheeses—one organic and the other produced with conventional methods—which would you choose? Does the 10-40% higher price tag on the organic product influence your decision?

The green movement came as more of a slap than an epiphany. Sitting on the floor of my college dorm room, I was surrounded by pizza boxes, notebooks and paper cups by the dozen.

On June 26, people worldwide will participate in the Hands Across the Sand campaign to protest offshore oil drilling and to support legislation for clean energy.

While consumers across the world increasingly recycle their old batteries, coffee makers and MP3 players, most electric and electronic waste from offices and factories still ends up in landfills. But in Norway, an industry-run program now collects 98% of such waste.

What do breast milk, food cans, microwave popcorn, and fast-food French fry boxes have in common with meat, fish and dairy products? They’re all avenues of human ingestion of potentially harmful chemicals associated with everyday plastics.

As I type this, having just returned from a two-week photography trip to the Arctic, my fingertips tingle, possibly from the lingering cold, or possibly from the trepidation that the tragedy of the Gulf oil spill will someday repeat itself in America’s Arctic Ocean.