Environment and Diet are Factors in Rising Adult-Onset Diabetes Seventeen million Americans have diabetes, and the incidence of new cases has increased 32 percent since 1990, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. Experts are still searching for the cause, but most say […]
For Wind Energy Investments, It’s the Potential That Counts As the fastest-growing energy source in the world, abundant, safe, renewable wind power seems like a very promising investment opportunity. But Americans looking to jump on the wind bandwagon had best be careful, because no U.S.-based wind power companies are publicly traded. Adventurous investors willing to […]
Home Depot and endangered wood, Wal-Mart and sweatshops, Monsanto and genetically engineered foods. Besides being the targets of activist protesting, these companies have all had pressure from their investors to do the right thing. A year ago, Greenpeace made a decision that caused ripples in the environmental community. The group, known for daring tactics against […]
Washing Machines Are Getting Cleaner and Greener Europeans who visit America find much to marvel at, but there’s always room for quiet astonishment at the top-loading washing machines which, while easier on the back than front-loaders, waste copious amounts of water, wear out clothes prematurely, leave them wet and, to a European eye, dingy. This […]
From Barbie dolls to the latest consumer gadgets, most of the goods stocking North American store shelves arrive by ship. Large marine vessels such as container ships and oil tankers are one of the least-regulated sources of air pollution in the United States. As these ships make their way to and from their ports of call, a steady stream of toxic filth is released from their smokestacks.
More than 28 million Americans patronize tanning salons each year, with young women constituting the fastest-growing group of users. A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found a staggering 51 percent of high school girls visited tanning beds at least four times in the past year. "Laying out" is a cheap pastime—sessions under the lights run for roughly five bucks a pop—but dermatologists wonder about the long-term costs.
When the 175-acre Villa Montalvo estate in Saratoga was bequeathed to the state of California in 1930, the owner stipulated that the new park continue nurturing music, art, literature and architecture. One result was the creation, in 1942, of the oldest artists’ residency program west of the Mississippi. In 1998, Villa Montalvo’s board of trustees […]
Despite findings which link the pesticide atrazine to sexual mutations in frogs, EPA is considering a 3-4-fold increase for atrazine in drinking water.
Institute for Environmental Research and Education will ask residents to decide how they should combine energy from the sun, wind, composting and tides to wean themselves from fossil fuels. Someday soon, cars will run on island-produced power stored in the form of hydrogen.
A Natural Multi-Vitamin Which tree grows quickly, provides tasty and nutritious food, is both resilient and common in tropical areas, and can even purify water—but has been overlooked by modern medicine? The Moringa or “drumstick” tree (moringa oleifera) “is an all-natural, inexpensive and accessible multi-vitamin,” said Lowell Fuglie, West Africa representative of Church World Service. […]
