The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition effort to protect the health of consumers and workers by securing the reforms necessary to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care products. Partners include the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, the Breast Cancer Fund, Commonweal, Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth and Women’s Voices [...]
Back in the summer of 2009, G20 (The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) leaders from around the world pledged to “rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.” But 14 months later, not a single fossil fuel subsidy has been cut in any [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I know that some people abstain from meat on Fridays for religious reasons, but what’s the story behind “Meatless Mondays?”
Meatless Monday – the modern version of it, at least – was born in 2003 with the goal of reducing meat consumption by 15 percent in the U.S. and beyond. The rationale? Livestock production [...]
Join me for an event that I hope will change the way we live today and in the future: TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch. This one-day event will bring together thought leaders from the fields of technology, science, arts and entertainment, design, activism, and business to discuss the global plastic pollution crisis. Together, the group will identify [...]
Once again this year I will be traveling back east via Amtrak. I have done this trip twice before, and this year’s trip will be even better than the last 2 because thanks to reward points my entire trip is free! On to the Reads…
Here are 15 homemade, organic solutions for garden problems. I [...]
23 year old Emily Cummins has invented a solar-powered fridge currently being used in Africa. It uses zero electricity to keep the contents at 43 degrees. Isn’t it amazing what some people do?
The solar-powered fridge, which she designed while still a schoolgirl, is now helping families in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
It [...]
I have been talking about CFL light bulbs on this site for just about as long as I have been publishing it, about 4.5 years. Every light fixture in my home(s) has had a CFL bulb in them, and my electric bill has rarely been above $35/month at the absolute highest. Those bulbs are a [...]
