Over the weekend I received a question from Beth, who after looking at baby shower registry list wrote me to ask about one of the items on it and if there were any safer alternatives. She said that the large place mat for babies made by Baby Einstein has an ingredient called Poly Ethanol listed [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Oceans are in big trouble and I understand President Obama is creating a high level ocean council to address them. What are the major issues?
Our oceans are indeed in a terrible state, thanks primarily to unrestrained commercial and industrial activity. Overfishing and pollution have decimated once abundant stocks of fish and other marine [...]
Spring is here! No it isn’t. It’s 70 degrees out! It’s snowing. If there is one thing I can definitively say about Colorado it is this – the weather is bizarre this time of year. In the past week I have worn shorts and a t-shirt while taking the skateboard out for a ride [...]
And of course, more oil spills in the gulf or oil tankers running aground. And who couldn’t use more of those, right? I mean, why not open up 167 million acres of ocean from Delaware to Florida to extract oil from…even if you said you weren’t interested in doing that when you were running for [...]
About 2 weeks ago I received an email from Sherry D., a new reader of The Good Human. (Welcome, Sherry!) She is a new convert to trying to live a greener lifestyle and asked me about what kind of products I use in my every day life. While they can vary from month to month, [...]
A few weeks ago I saw a post somewhere about a new eyewear company called Warby Parker. Their concept in the crowded field of companies selling eyeglasses online is that for every pair they sell, they give away a pair to someone in need. Pretty cool, right? Millions of people buy glasses every year, but [...]
Yet another sales pitch that makes me want to hit my head against a wall. Charmin has decided that making their rolls of virgin paper toilet paper BIGGER helps the environment because…wait for it…you don’t need to use as many cardboard tubes this way. The claim is that “Charmin Mega Roll has 75% less cardboard [...]
