Green Living Tips and Ideas

So smoking is bad, but there are ways to do it classier, healthier, and environmentally friendlier. Read the original article at Current

Who is made accountable in this situation? You know if it were the other way around Monsanto would be suing these farmers. Excerpt: Contamination incident highlights challenges of containing GM beets In May, genetically modified sugar beet plants were found in a soil mix sold to gardeners at a landscape supply business in Corvallis, Oregon. The contamination incident ...read more

I'm in London and this week's tabloid Daily Express has a headline in type two inches high: “ORGANIC FOOD NO HEALTHIER.” The article begins, “Eating organic food in the belief that it is good for your health is a waste of money, new research shows.” Really? This surprising statement is based on the conclusions of ...read more

Walking home from work today I was lost in thought. It was hot (though not as hot as Seattle, where some friends live) and humid (though not as hot as Houston, where some family lives), yet if someone had run up to me and asked me what season it was I might not have been ...read more

Ask any student on a college campus where the “green crowd” hangs out, and she will be able to tell you. At the University of Pennsylvania, she might point you to the aspiring poets of the Kelly Writers House, the artistic students in the Furness Library, or maybe the earthy adolescents at the Lovers & Madmen ...read more

Question: We moved into a new development a couple of years ago and while we love our home, the barren landscape really looks terrible. We haven’t been able to afford putting in all the landscaping we’d like, but we want to start this summer. Our biggest problem is keeping heat out of the house. Where ...read more

LONDON, UK — Red Bull Ltd. realized it was violating the U.K.’s packaging and recycling laws in 2007. The company notified the U.K.’s Environment Agency and corrected its violations, but still received a hefty fine this week. Red Bull is now a top  recycling offender with its guilty plea ...read more

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — The Weyerhaeuser Company reduced greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent in 2008 compared to its level in 2000, the forest products firm said in its latest sustainability report. The company, whose lines of business range from paper and pulp products to building materials and real estate, ...read more

Ruby Roth, a former elementary school art teacher, has published a children’s book about the suffering animals face in factory farm operations for the sake of our food supply. Endorsed by Jane Goodall, That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals (NorthAtlantic/RandomHouse) has been described as the first children’s book to address the emotional lives of animals, factory ...read more

Remember that you heard it here first:  We warned you in mid July about the right-wing nut groups trying to phony up a backlash against climate legislation pending in Congress. Now, Bonner & Associates - an Astroturf group that manufacturers “grassroots support” for corporate agendas on Capitol Hill - has been caught red handed sending phony ...read more