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 […]
Eco-Entrepreneurs Are Making New Products From Recycled Materials Environmentalists are always talking about the three Rs-reduce, reuse and recycle. But what about the fourth R-remake? Like…rescuing that punctured bicycle tire from the garage’s bowels and, for example…fashioning new neckwear? Making products from recycled materials has evolved from a strictly green market into mainstream consumer practice. […]
With the Green Tortoise Bus Line, Getting There is Half the Fun
How Well-Organized Boycotts Change Corporate Policy After biking home from work, eating an organic salad for dinner, and sending off your annual dues to Greenpeace, you decide to kick back with an ice-cold Kirin Beer—not realizing you’re supporting Mitsubishi, destroyer of rainforests. You can’t have a Coke, either, because the company sponsors an aquarium that […]
Are Herbal Remedies Under Attack From a Vast International Conspiracy?
New Products Fight the Backyard Pool’s Chlorine Addiction
Why expose Fluffy or Fido to synthetic chemicals when there are so many healthier green options nowadays?
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
