Tsp. Water Shortages Cup of Natural disasters 1/2 cup of Famine Dash of over-population Box of Global Warming Mixed with a batch of land once used to grow crops now being used for biofuels

THE HAGUE - Prices of products packaged in plastic will increase 1 percent next year. This price hike is the result of agreements on recycling plastic packaging that Minister for the Environment Jacqueline Cramer has made with the business sector...

When people start paying individually for the bags of waste they generate, it may encourage them to change their shopping habits.

The E Magazine guide for living lightly on the earth.

(note: here is a graph from UC Berkeley showing how ethanol made from corn takes up six times as much energy as it produces.)

"The constant excuse that the United States has given for not participating in a climate regime, by blaming India and China ... is not just unfortunate but I think is very far from the truth,"

Ask whether formula does the same job as breastmilk -- whether, for example, it protects mothers and their children against a variety of often life threatening and/or debilitating conditions.