A few years ago I received a SodaStream, which I mentioned in my 2009 eco-friendly holiday gift guide as a great gift for anyone who drinks a lot of carbonated beverages. Well, it’s now been 2+ years later since I got it, and it’s still going strong in my house. The SodaStream machine is a [...]
Q: I’ve heard of the slow food movement, but what is “slow money” all about? “Slow Money” is the name for a movement started by socially conscious investing pioneer and author, Woody Tasch, who essentially borrowed the conceptual framework of “Slow Food”—whereby participants eschew convenience-oriented “fast” foods, instead filling up their plates with traditional, unprocessed [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… “I’m happy to bring you the good news about the complete collapse of the global warming movement and the failure of the Kyoto process, as world leaders meet for the United Nations global warming conference,” Senator James Inhofe says in a video message. [...]
And you guys thought I just had a personal vendetta! Monsanto, a biotech giant well known for creating GMO foods and crops, has been given the Worst Company of 2011 Award, by readers of NaturalSociety. I personally would have named them Worst Company of the Decade, but I won’t complain about this award since I [...]
This giveaway has ended Have you ever taken your reusable coffee cup into a coffee shop and asked for an espresso drink? I have. It usually results in the barista using a paper cup to make my drink in and then pouring the contents into my own cup. So even though I brought in my [...]
Q: Given the preponderance of carcinogenic chemicals out there today, is it true that eating certain foods like garlic or onions can actually help prevent cancer? Natural healers have extolled the cancer-preventing virtues of garlic and onions for years, but only recently do we have enough scientific research to draw some conclusions. Several animal studies [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… Republican lawmakers in Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday that would force the Obama administration to issue a construction permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days unless the president decides that the project is not in the national interest. With each [...]
