VivaTerra was founded by a discouraged consumer wishing for beautiful, design-conscious goods made from organic, recycled and renewable materials. It's great to see someone do well by doing what they love and following their conscious.

Did you know each year 80 billion mailers are sent out in the US? ecoEnvelopes seeks to reduce the impact of that via the first ever US Post Office approved two way envelopes. It's simple, really: Save resources, one letter at a time.

Regrettably, the environmental impacts of car use go way beyond carbon emissions. We are discussing here a subject that is absolutely inherent to the developed world's lifestyle and, somewhat inevitably, car use continues to grow.

Product stewardship is the process of evaluating the entire lifecycle of the products we buy and use.(Stay Informed,Spend Some Dough,Locate Your Products,Check the Ingredients,Reduce Your Packaging,Recycle,Take Advantage of Take Backs,Close the Loop.)>>

Are you eating? Chew on this: restaurants are the top retail electricity consumer in the US. 33% of it. On average, 50,000 pounds of waste annually. Eat up, unless you want to add to that last figure. Unless you happen to be dining at a GRA restaurant.

It is difficult for many urbanites to realize the significance of the Farm Bill. Grant it the United States is now a net importer of foodstuffs, how and why has this happened?

Under the watchful eye of the Nature Conservancy, Costa Rica and America have brokered the largest ever debt-for-nature swap in history.

Having implemented several water-saving ideas from the first Living Green Workshop I attended (no beef for two weeks!) I was excited to go back to learn about the next topic: Energy.

If your office is anything like mine, you have a TON of outdated/broken/obsolete tech stuff lying around, with nowhere to go.

As the only Australian member of the GO writing team, it came as a surprise to find my hometown of Melbourne was hosting a green expo.