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The electric car might get here faster if it weren’t for some of the stumbling blocks In the eyes of the America consumer, one of the worst sins is inconvenience. The electric car, for instance, might zoom to the market faster if manufacturers could just settle some of the issues that just sound like a […]

The love we feel for our pet dogs and cats should be enough. Why do fleas and lice also like to get into that beloved fur? But that’s what happens, and health-conscious owners face the conundrum of getting rid of the pests without poisoning our pets. It is, pardon the expression, a real head-scratcher. Not […]

Photos by David Adams Does the Toy Juggernaut Bode Well for the Future of Rail? May 7 was National Train Day, an Amtrak-sponsored holiday on which rail enthusiasts gather to geek out on signals and switches, club cars and coal tenders. My three-year old son Simon has more than a passing fondness for railroads, inspired […]

The rising price of gold has led to a 600% increase in deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon to make way for gold mining.

An app for Al Gore’s book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis represents a digital leap forward in interactive book publishing, with audio, video, maps, charts and photos. Al Gore’s newest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, now available for download on iTunes, is leagues beyond your typical […]

A short video from the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World lays out the problem of chemical contamination in our homes and products.A short video from the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World does a masterful job of simply laying out the problem of chemical contamination in our homes and products. It begins with the idea of […]

We are in a “time of crisis” and need to get serious about protecting children’s health.

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 […]

Without Endangered Species Act protection, gray wolves face an uncertain future. Gray wolves, an ancestor of the domestic dog, were shot, poisoned and trapped by ranchers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to protect livestock. So many wolves were killed that by the 1930s, most of the animals were eliminated in the U.S. […]