Corporate Responsibility Magazine released its First-Ever Black List – the 30 least-transparent companies in Russell 1000 Corporate Index – on April 14, 2010. This list is based on the same data CRO uses to create its “100 Best Corporate Citizens” list from the Russell 1000 index of large-cap stocks. Featuring some of America’s best-known [...]
Did you know you might not need to buy toxic specialty cleaners to get the metal items in your house spotless and shiny? Turns out that many common household ingredients can do a fantastic job of polishing up the metal without any chemicals at all. While I highly recommend you try any of [...]
I had a conversation with someone at a barbeque yesterday afternoon about wind turbines. We were discussing the Cape Wind Project, which will be America’s first off-shore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. He was upset because by putting wind turbines off-shore, it was going to ruin the view, and once that one took [...]
In the category of “Many of us having been saying this for a while now”, the President’s Cancer Panel recently published a report on risks of cancer from the chemicals in our environment. From the chemical BPA found in plastics to everyday pollution to drugs in our water supply, the report finally admits that we [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I understand there’s an issue with the herbicide atrazine showing up in dangerous quantities in drinking water, mostly throughout the central U.S. Why is this happening and what’s being done about it?
Atrazine is an herbicide that is widely used across the U.S. and elsewhere to control both broadleaf and grassy weeds in large-scale [...]
On Wednesday morning I woke up to snow on the ground. On May 12th. After hitting 80 degrees just a few days prior. Remember the good ole days when winter actually ended and didn’t come out of nowhere to surprise everyone? Me too…
Last week residents of Concord, Massachusetts voted to ban the sale of [...]
It’s that time of year – ant season. The ground has thawed, temperatures are going up, and the ants are on a hunt for something yummy to eat. Although I don’t (knock on wood) have a problem where I am currently living, I have had to deal with an onslaught of ants in prior homes [...]
