During the holiday season, Greenopia always get a lot of inquiries about which retailers are doing the most to be green. We try to answer this question in our 2011 Environmental Retailer Guide. For the fourth straight year, the greenest overall retailer in our study was

Anyone who has surfed the Internet looking for third-party environmental evaluations of their favorite (or least favorite) corporations has probably found a plethora of conflicting and often confusing results. My role as Founder and CEO of Greenopia has given me a unique vantage point into the various complexities...

As an environmentalist and someone who is concerned about the rampant use of hazardous chemicals in food production, I often find it extremely challenging to shop for a pet food. As we just completed the annual update of our Green Pet Food Guide at Greenopia, it became apparent...

Several weeks ago, Greenopia announced the annual update of its green fast food guide, which yielded some surprising results. The top of the list remained unchanged, with the greenest fast food chain being Pizza Fusion for the third straight year. Two other chains received Greenopia's highest score of...

While you may feel that the media coverage of the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana has exhausted every angle, there is one point of view that is sorely missing. Most of the articles about the spill are either pointing figures at various companies (BP) or describing how horrendous...

Greenopia is happy to announce its environmental ratings for the 100 largest schools in the US. We were not satisfied with the rigorousness of other green college lists that were presently available and wanted to lend our expertise in impact analysis to the mix. We used a comprehensive...

Who doesn't like popping open a cold beer on a hot summer day? Even folks who aren't big drinkers say there's nothing like a chilly brew after an afternoon of yardwork or over a backyard BBQ. But like everything we consume, beer has an environmental footprint -- sometimes a significant...

We try to buy organic, we do. But here's a confession: Some of our weekly groceries are still grown and produced the old-fashioned way -- loaded up with crud.

It's not that we crave chemicals in our food. We don't have a hankering for pesticide, or an insatiable appetite for...

As a mom, I'm pretty eco-responsible. I buy organic. I carpool. I compost. And I'd be delighted to never see another Ziploc bag in my life, except ... how else am I supposed to pack my kids' lunches?

It's a space problem: Reusable containers are so rigid, so maddeningly unbendy,...

When I said I wanted to go green, I didn't mean I wanted to look green.

I'm all for reducing our energy consumption, and Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs) are an easy way to do it, but some of them leave me looking less than lovely in their light. But...

We know people do it. And we admire them, we truly do. But from our vantage point -- standing over a changing table with a squalling, "soiled" infant -- the choice between cloth and disposable diapers doesn't feel like much of a choice at all.

We know...