When one or two insects visit your home, they seem like obnoxious guests. And when an invasion occurs, your first reaction may be to call the exterminator or spray something noxious. But insect infestations aren’t always as bad as they seem, and there are numerous options that don’t involve the purchase of toxic pesticides.
A major problem with batteries is not so much the batteries themselves, but inefficient use and disposal by confused consumers.
About 60 percent of Americans (average age, 28) are playing video or computer games, and two fifths of them are women.
As Americans, we spend about a quarter of our electricity budget on lighting, yet we’re surprisingly ignorant about the basic properties of the lightbulb, let alone the recent innovations in energy-saving lighting design that can cut consumer costs 30 to 60 percent a year.
Bring Out the Animal in Your Dog or Cat With Healthy Food Alternatives The wild dogs and cats that roamed the Earth thousands of years ago were the direct ancestors of the “domesticated creatures” we share our homes with today. As our pets, they’re “civilized,” but their physiology has remained remarkably unchanged from that of […]
Tired of feeling helpless in the seemingly futile struggle to slow tropical rainforest destruction? Try buying some wood–“certified” wood that is–guaranteed to come from an environmentally “well-managed” forest.
Aveda Proves That Beauty is More Than Skin Deep with its Line of Green Health & Beauty Products…
The next time your town is having a "bad air" day, and you glare at your local smoke-spewing power plant, give a thought also to the vehicle in your own driveway. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, cars, trucks and buses account for more than 50 percent of smog emissions. Car emissions are indirectly […]
A Sound Idea — Forest-Friendly Instuments Make Sweet Music. Greg Gaylord, a self-employed drum maker, works with wood almost every day. The lone owner and operator of aptly named Drum Solo in Novato, California, Gaylord spends his waking hours laboring over the many intricacies of his handcrafted snare drums.
Saving Heirloom Seeds for a Sustainable Future Kent Whealy is saving the Earth, one tomato at a time. Known in seed circles as America’s godfather of the heirloom seed movement, Whealy is the founder of the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to systematically collecting and preserving heritage seeds from the past. Whealy started […]
