Hi. I'm Elizabeth. And I'm a chocoholic. I eat it in all forms, and I eat it whenever I can get it.

I never really felt too bad about this guilty pleasure. Not even when I learned that the average person eats 27 pounds of chocolate per year--and I'm probably...

From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, Americans spend more money and generate more waste than at any other time of year. In these tough economic times people everywhere are trying to cut back and simplify their holidays, while many others are looking for more environmentally friendly ways of celebrating the...

The extinction of the dreaded plastic species can't come soon enough.

A couple of months ago my son Emmett got a small toy knight. Of course it came in an impenetrable clamshell package that he was trying to open himself. I told him I would help him pry the thing...

I never thought I'd use the word "green" to describe anything about Sarah Palin. But I must give credit where credit is due...or at least where it used to be due.

When it comes to browsing through clothes racks, an uber-eco-conscious shopper can choose from two extremes:...

An article in the Wall Street Journal on Oct. 2 has reported results from a McKinsey & Co report stating that 65% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are due directly or indirectly to American consumer activities, which are the most energy-intensive in the world.

I can almost hear the...

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Talk to any environmental expert and they'll tell you that the 3 R's are ordered like this intentionally. It's the order in which we should put them into practice.

Reduce what we consume. Reuse what we can. Recycle the rest.

Fortunately, implementing the mainstays of this...

After three straight quarterly losses and 14,000 job-cuts earlier this year, Citigroup's newest cost-saving strategy was recently outlined in an internal company memo.

No more off-site employee meetings. No more superfluous color copies. No more new Blackberry devices -- unless we determine you really need one.

Many people, puzzled...

As more and more companies are touting the eco-virtues of their products, the issue of greenwashing has become a hot topic. So hot, in fact, that it was the cover story of a recent Reader's Digest. And you can't get more mainstream than RD, last I checked.

In some...

Presumptive Democratic Nominee Barack Obama commented recently that Americans could realize significant gas savings by doing simple things to increase their fuel economy -- like keeping their tires properly inflated.

Obama's suggestion -- which seemed to be more like a spontaneous remark than some sort of orchestrated proposal --...