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GoodGuide, Inc. The GoodGuide app lets you scan products–from food to cleaners–before buying, to discover how they rate on health, environmental and social commitment scales. The GoodGuide iPhone app is the app you need when navigating store aisles. Once downloaded, you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch’s camera to scan the barcodes of more […]
An organization called The Charcoal Project is addressing a concern that’s been largely overlooked: the more than two billion people around the world who depend on wood, charcoal, dung or agricultural residues as primary fuel sources.
There‘s one way to stop further decimating remaining populations of bluefin tuna: stop eating them.
The multibillion-dollar climate change offset market is already providing huge sums to China and boosting the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant in the process.
This week, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‘s greenhouse gas regulations will begin taking effect—and big polluters aren‘t happy. These regulations, in keeping with the Clean Air Act, aim to require major polluters—particularly fossil fuel power plants and oil refineries—to get permits for emitting greenhouse gases. It would also compel these major emitters to seek out […]
Experts are still trying to figure out how to keep the invasive Asian Carp from potentially decimating the Great Lakes fisheries. Fisheries, meanwhile, are trying to capitalize on the carp’s culinary promise.
New York’s public radio station, WNYC, has been tracking the major events of 2010 in its “What Happened in 2010” series—and has one devoted to climate and energy events. Done as a timeline, the listing serves as a vivid reminder of what a calamitous year 2010 was from an environmental standpoint.
Just before the Christmas holidays—December 20, 2010, to be exact—Environmental Working Group released a report that many home faucets are supplying drinking water that’s laced with the cancer-causing metal chromium-6
A Green Home with All the Extras? Keep Dreaming.Since 2008, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has hosted a special exhibit called Smart Home: Green + Wired. For an extra $8, you can tour a seemingly perfect environmentally friendly house. It’s an actual freestanding house on the museum’s lawn, a stack of thrifty modular units […]
