Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, having already been found to be present in breast milk, are in the hot seat again as a report out of Harvard School of Public Health has linked the chemicals to immune disorders in children, along with making them less likely to respond to routine vaccines. PFCs are found in food [...]
As compared to 2011, sales of electric and plug-in hybrid cars is expected to increase fivefold in 2012. According to the website Clean Fleet Report, citing research from technology research firm Gartner, 2012 should see sales of at least 100,000 electric cars, which is a major jump up from the 18,000 sold during 2011. Those [...]
Q: Is it true that the bathroom is where over half of our household water usage takes place? What are some ways to take a bite out of that? Yes indeed, some 60 percent of our household indoor water usage happens in the bathroom. As such, updating old leaky fixtures and changing a few basic [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… How much of fashion giant H&M’s progress is part of an honest, dedicated commitment to doing good, and how much is just great greenwashing? Let’s have a look at some of the facts behind the marketing. President Barack Obama had a lot to [...]
Sometimes you have to go back to the basics, right? Well, as I have mentioned a few times lately, going green doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, you can actually save a lot of money by greening your life, rather than spending a ton. Marketing tricks and television advertising do their best to convince [...]
$299 for organic cotton jeans. $20 for a pair of organic cotton socks. $3,000 for a coffee table made of reclaimed wood. “Going green” can be an expensive endeavor if you are to only buy eco-friendly goods made entirely from sustainably-harvested materials with fair-trade labor practices. Let’s be honest, most of us cannot afford to [...]
In the last 11 years since 2000, 9 of them have been the warmest years ever recorded. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has kept temperature records since 1880, and the records show that the first 11 years of the 2000′s were hotter than both the middle and late 20th century, according to James Hansen, [...]
