Currents

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. […]

To the casual observer, artificial or synthetic turf is barely distinguishable, by look or touch, from grass. Turf even sometimes sprouts weeds, much to the consternation of folks seeking a dandelion-free zone from their $100,000 backyard rug.Once solely used for athletic fields, 20% of artificial grass installations are now residential. In drought-prone areas of the […]

Mother’s Day, Backyard Flocks and a Greener Cup of JoeFor Mother’s Day two years ago, the father of my children built me a chicken coop. It was a gift of time and labor, as well as a concrete (or fine-mesh wire) commitment to the health of our family and its food sources. Laying hens arguably […]

Choose a new vegan delight to cook each day, with recipes from the award-winning food blog VeganYumYum. The VeganYumYum app, based on the award-winning food blog—and book—of the same name, makes Meat-Free Mondays a breeze! Search and choose through this app’s alphabetically arranged vegan courses, and get a detailed checklist of which ingredients to buy […]

The documentary Journey of the Universe offers a voyage of discovery, from the origins of the cosmos to the rise of creativity and the human purpose. If Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras knew what we knew, he would be amazed. So begins the invitation from cosmology professor Brian Thomas Swinne to step into Journey of […]