Tools for Green Living

New Products Fight the Backyard Pool’s Chlorine Addiction

Three million diapers pour into U.S. landfills each year, where they will likely linger for over a century. Nature Boy and Girl offers an environmentally minded alternative. It uses less raw materials than conventional diapers and its product is 70 percent compostable,

New Waste-Reducing Designs in Modern Toiletry Every day, Americans flush away about three billion gallons of drinkable water, not to mention millions of pounds of useful fertilizer. As Sim Van Der Ryn notes in his classic 1978 book The Toilet Papers, “Our excreta-not wastes, but misplaced resources-end up destroying food chains, food supply and water […]

Walking Tours Are a Great Way to See The World, at Your Own Pace

How to Use Your Shares to Change Company Environmental Behavior If you own stock, whether it be a few shares or a large portfolio, you have the right to attend annual meetings and to try—like Judy Holiday in The Solid Gold Cadillac—to influence company policy. An increasingly popular tactic, shareholder activism is the muscle in […]

How Safe Are Feminine Hygiene Products? Many people remember the hundreds of tampon-related Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) cases in the early 1980s. Since then, warnings have been inserted in tampon boxes, and the safety of menstrual products has seldom been much of an issue. Yet there are still toxins in tampons and sanitary pads. And […]

Environmental Designs Stir Things Up in the Eco Kitchen While the kitchen is the center of most American homes, it's often an afterthought when it comes to making environmental improvements. But considering that the kitchen consumes 20 to 40 percent of household energy, it's really a good place to concentrate your efforts. E, with the […]