Shopping smart can help you not only preserve your health, but what's left of your wealth.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living
In the past, the presumption was that if it's on the store shelves, it must be safe. But in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Need proof? Cigarettes are sold everywhere.
Chicago Tribune | Deborah L. Shelton | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
Chicago health commissioner Dr. Terry Mason has a message for Chicagoans who enjoy devouring meat in all its fat-dripping, artery-clogging glory: Don'...
audubonmagazine.org | Mike Tidwell | Posted 02.06.2009 | Green
Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig me...
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
Over the past couple of months, melamine has been heavy in the headlines... dairy products manufactured in China were intentionally contaminated with the chemical.
Grist | Lou Bendrick | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green
Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, human...
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 12.24.2008 | Living
If you wouldn't eat your cat, you shouldn't eat a turkey. As poultry scientist Tom Savage says, "I've always viewed turkeys as smart animals with personality and character, and keen awareness."
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...
Times Online | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home
Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike, scientists suggest. A chemist is recreating the smell to help Nasa to t...
Jeanie Pyun | Posted 11.09.2008 | Green
The Scranton-born son of a car salesman, Joe Biden has often made reference to his "average Joe" means. Indeed, his three bedroom, two bathroom, single family, Colonial residence -- under 1,800+ square feet and on a little over four acres -- is typical of the area.
Jeanie Pyun | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green
We thought we'd see what eco-sins the saintly hockey-mom conservative might, however guilelessly, harbor.
Dave Burdick | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green
So my grandmother emailed, mid-category 1 hurricane, to tell me she's concerned for my health, because she thought I said I was going vegetarian full-time -- gotta have enough protein.
TIME | Bryan Walsh | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green
Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal -- aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking ...
Guardian | Juliette Jowit | Posted 10.08.2008 | Green
People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's...
Reuters | Michael Perry | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green
SYDNEY - Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, ...
Graham Hill | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green
From cruel conditions, to carbon footprint, to waste of packaging, to harmful chemicals -- there's so much going on with that food on your plate before you see it.
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.31.2008 | Living
600 gallons of water are needed to produce a single hamburger -- that's enough water to hydrate a person for over 3 years. Going vegetarian is probably the boldest step any of us can take to lead a greener life.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green