Where does your ’stuff’ come from? How does it get from raw material to product and where does it end up when you throw it away?
We live in a ’stuff’-saturated community where the average American home contains around 10,000 objects and has more t.v.’s than people living in it. Each of us creates [...]
Planting 18 billion trees worldwide is no small feat. Neither is easing world hunger, fighting global warming or restoring regional water, air and soil quality to communities experiencing serious environmental and humanitarian crises. Cue The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, a nonprofit charity organization with the lofty goal of planting approximately 3 fruit trees per human [...]
Got something to say about climate change? The World Bank wants to hear it. In an effort to highlight the social impact of climate change, they’re holding an open call for innovative and thought-provoking short films in a world-wide documentary competition. Open to amateurs and professionals, young and old alike, this is a once [...]
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What: Miessence Balancing Skin Conditioner
Price: $31.77 for 3.4 oz at http://organicology.mionegroup.com
Materials:
Organic aloe vera (aloe barbadensis) leaf juice, purified water (aqua), organic rosehip (rosa rubiginosa) seed oil, organic jojoba (simmondsia chinensis) [...]
If you’ve not yet heard of The Great Garbage Patch then you’re in for a surprise. Called a swirling latrine of plastic, a floating dump, it’s nestled in the Pacific somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It’s the world’s largest landfill (measuring in at twice the surface area of Texas) and, oh yeah, [...]
US paper recycling rates reached 52% in 2006 with paper makers recycling enough paper to fill a 15-mile-long-train of boxcars every day. Recycling paper no doubt saves considerable resources (water, electricity, trees etc.) and is preferable to landfilling, but all of this paper recycling also creates oft-overlooked chemical byproducts (sludge) through de-inking and contaminant [...]
Want to do more to reduce your food-related carbon footprint but don’t know where to start? Think a ‘Greener’ menu is outside your budget? Think again; big and small, backyard gardens are making a comeback and providing a financially and environmentally sustainable alternative to store-bought goods.
But before deciding yay or nay, [...]
Inundated with messages to ‘Buy Local!’ and ‘Buy American!’ in order to save the environment and decrease ‘food miles’, consumers are flooding farmers markets, CSA’s and co-ops. And with U.S. produce traveling an average of 1,500 miles from farm to grocer, it would seem that the ‘Buy Local’ phenomenon makes sense in the [...]
On July 17th former Vice President Al Gore challenged America to switch to 100% renewable energy sources within the next ten years. Currently, 85% of all energy consumed in the U.S. comes from non-renewable fossil fuels ( coal, oil and natural gas) powering 2/3 of our electricity and most of our vehicles (US Department of [...]
Plastic bags consumed this year:
The next time you consider buying that 24 case of bottled water or accepting the plastic grocery bag instead of bringing a canvas tote, consider these statistics first:
Plastic Consumption:
Plastic will not biodegrade-ever. Instead, plastic will [...]