Um, yea…this is a whopper of a Greenwash of the Week, as you will soon find out. Huggies has just introduced a diaper they are calling “Pure & Natural”, featuring natural ingredients. What are the natural ingredients in this diaper? Some organic cotton that is included on the OUTSIDE of the diaper (which A. never [...]
Watch the Latest Video of UL Lafayette’s TEAM BeauSoleil assembling its entry for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. The BeauSoleil Home is an affordable, green housing option that is well-suited for the Gulf Coast. It is designed to withstand hurricane-forcewinds and can be elevated in flood-prone regions. Also, the [...]
Over the years I have tried a zillion different natural deodorants from different companies in a vain attempt to get away from the aluminum that is in most name-brand formulas.
The best one I could find that “mostly” worked was one from Tom’s of Maine, but it still didn’t last all day long – but [...]
Before you take the easy (and potentially dangerous) way out and just throw away your unused/old gadgets (at least recycle!), you might want to check out Gazelle.com and see if you can get any cash for it instead. Gazelle recycles, and most of the time pays you for, your old iPods, computers, iPhones, Blackberry’s, digital [...]
I know it is very easy to get caught up focusing on the bad stuff going on in our world – the destruction of our rainforests, climate change, peak oil, hormonal changes due to our use of toxic chemicals – sometimes it seems like the totality of the environmental movement focuses only on the negative [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What would you recommend as a non-toxic/non-lethal way to keep squirrels, gophers and groundhogs away?
Keeping unwanted critters away can be tricky business, and options are somewhat limited. For starters, make sure exterior garbage, recycling and compost containers are shut tight, and pick up and remove any fallen fruit that your apple, [...]
With about 10 weeks until the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen, what is the latest science telling us? In brief, climate-warming predictions of three or four years ago are already out of date. New science suggests an even faster warming than had been thought possible.
One day while complaining about having to purchase [...]
