Plastic is essentially unavoidable in today's world, nearly 100 billion pounds are produced in the US alone each year. We are creating over 3,200 pounds of plastic every single second of every day.
Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
I don't go into Starbucks very much any more because I pretty much break out in eco-hives seeing all of that plastic and paper waste being shuttled ac...
WorldChanging.com | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green
Several months ago, I returned from a life-changing month at sea with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. We were a crew of six, aboard a 50-foot...
Planet Green | Jessica Root | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green
Though Starbucks successfully creates a caffeine buzz, they haven't successfully mastered the craft of being green--even when easy eco-efforts are rig...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media
Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
From sea to shining sea, we've taken water for granted while spilling blood for oil, even though water's by far the more precious commodity.
Doon Baqi | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
Most people that I know mock my skepticism, my insistence on "fact" checking, my adamant refusal to take anything they say for face value. I'm that p...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.26.2008 | Living
In the wake of Earth Day, green-bordered magazines and quivering news reports of Global Warming, it could be easy to dismiss the occasion as an over c...
New York Times | Ian Austen | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
OTTAWA -- The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food conta...
Beth Lapides | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment
Maybe in the next episode of Tell me You Love Me they'll realize that the estrogens may be partially responsible for the husband's lack of sex drive. Or maybe that won't happen for another year.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
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As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green