Camping with Gadgets
Solar chargers and other green gadgets can help you bring your electronic devices with you even when going off the grid on a camping trip.
Sarah Mosko
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Airing Your Clean Laundry
Will Right-to-Dry Laws Convince People to Bring Back Clotheslines?During the Leave-It-to Beaver era of the late 1950s, most homes certainly had a clothesline and probably no one thought much about whether it offended their neighbors. It’s a safe assumption that June Cleaver, the perfect homemaker, would have taken issue with anyone even hinting her clothesline […]
Fooled by Food Dyes
Fooled by Food Dyes: From Cereal Bars to Salad Dressings, Artificial Food Dyes Are Everywhere — And They Aren’t Doing Our Health Any Good…
Buying Season
Our Collective Energy Use Has a Lot to do with Our Purchases Americans today are generally aware that we consume far more energy per capita than most of the world’s peoples, over four times the world average and double that of regions like Japan and Europe which enjoy a similar standard of living. Most of […]
The Best Meat to Eat?
When It Comes to Global Warming, Not All Meats Are Created EqualA plant-based diet beats a traditional meat-based one hands down when it comes to trimming one’s contribution to greenhouse gases, but not everyone is willing to plunge head-long into a life of tofu dogs and bean burgers. No doubt there are even self-proclaimed vegetarians […]
The Cheese Challenge
Vegetarianism is on the rise. Ac-cording to a 2008 survey published by Vegetarian Times magazine, 3.2% of American adults follow a vegetarian diet and another 10% follow a vegetarian-inclined diet, most of them for concerns about animal welfare. Yet many of them eat cheese.It turns out that suffering-free cheese is nearly impossible to come by. […]
The Poop on Biosolids
L.A.’s Sewage Recycling Program Garners Awards and Fierce CriticismPeople flush the toilet maybe five to 10 times a day. Ever wonder where it all goes and, once it gets there, what they do with it? On a per capita basis, Los Angeles area homes, businesses and industry together generate roughly 90 gallons per day of […]
What’s Hiding in Your Veggie Burger?
Many Veggie Burgers, Nutrition Bars and Other Soy Foods Contain Hexane Soy-based foodstuffs like veggie burgers and nutrition bars are a go-to source of protein and generally considered “health foods.” We eat them because we believe they are a healthy alternative to meat and because soy foods have a reputation for being produced in a […]
"BPA-Free" Is No Guarantee
Getty Images Most Plastics Leach Chemicals with Estrogenic Activity–No Matter What the Labels SayThe bad reputation recently earned by BPA or Bisphenol A, a chemical constituent of polycarbonate resin plastics, is well-deserved. BPA is an estrogen mimicker linked by hundreds of studies to potentially adverse health effects in mammals ranging from cancers and infertility to […]
BPA’s Dangerous Chemical Cousin
A Chemical Lookalike to Bisphenol A May Be Even More Risky It would have been hard to get through 2010 without bumping into some scary information about the plastic ingredient Bisphenol A, aka BPA, like the fact it leaches from polycarbonate baby bottles and sports bottles and metal food can linings into food and drinks, […]