Predictably, today's NYT has an opinion piece calling for a half-hot sauce, a command and control-style food 'tracking system', to make more safe from contamination, food...

Image via Sparking Tech We're looking for a full-time blogger who can cover the latest, hippest, greenest gadgets and electronics. We are looking for someone who has...

It is really hard to promote the idea that people should get outdoors, be part of their community, go out to the ball game or whatever when we read things like this. At...

If I had a nickel for every prospective parent I know who changed their lifestyle for the better when they knew they were expecting I’d be a wealthy man indeed. But...

In a sign of things that might have been, Chinese children born after the closure of a local coal plant have found themselves with 60% less development problems such as...

Do we really know what goes into our eco-friendly cleaning products? Where they're made and why they work? Despite being a loyal Ecover customer for many years I must...

When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places like San Francisco, Boston and New York City...

Video of Marc Gunther on BPA Marc Gunther of Fortune Magazine wrote a long and thoughtful piece on the Bisphenol A (BPA) controversy; he spiked much of it for Fortune...

Image courtesy of Capitol Records. Singer/Songwriter Tristan Prettyman is using her sophomore album, Hello, to do more than raise money. She donated a song “War Outta...

Not too long ago our very own Lloyd Alter pointed out that walking matters. And that a walkable community promotes better health, a reduction in greenhouse gases, a...

On the inside. Europe Manages Risk: USA Pretends It Doesn't Exist. There's a pattern here. European Union nations phase out the more hazardous of the pthalate...

While the numbers are not official, it's estimated that about 20 million people practice yoga - and that adds up to lots of well-loved, grimy and sweaty yoga mats. ...

Here’s a job we all want – carrying out a life cycle assessment of beer. One would have to really do some serious investigation to get realistic statistics on the...