Few people would intentionally wash their clothes in detergent that contains cancer-causing chemicals.

But if you use some of the most popular laundry brands in the market, that's exactly what you could be doing.

Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE), a nonprofit organization whose scientists review the ingredients lists for...

If it's not easy to recycle something, is it really recyclable?

That's a fair question to ask, since we consumers are constantly being reassured that a product is "green" or "greener" because it is "recyclable" -- even when, in reality, the product is barely being recycled at...

Food should be the healthiest, safest thing our society produces and we consume. But it's not. I'd like to suggest 10 ways we can revamp our food system to make it healthier for people and the planet, and more delicious, too!

1) Help more farmers grow organic food. Right...

Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican Member of Congress who's running for President, vows she'll cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency if she's elected. Maybe if she spent a week in China like I recently did, she'd change her mind.

I've just returned from a seven-day trip to Beijing, China's capital,...

During the first Earth Day in 1970, environmental activist Stephanie Mills made headlines when she announced she would not reproduce to avoid contributing to climate change and other environmental problems attributed to a growing human population. Forty-one years later, should reducing population again be considered as a way to contain...