The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradable.

On Thanksgiving, I spent some time taking stock of my life and the world around me and, as we're supposed to do over the holiday, giving thanks for all the joys -- little and big -- in my life. One of the larger joys for which I am giving thanks is all

Next week the climate summit COP 15 in Copenhagen is about to start. Large scale agriculture depends on a massive input of fuel, fertilizer and pesticides and strongly contributes to climate change. Meat industry and transport of animal feed and agrofuels

Show your support to keep the Honey Bees from being extincted by government sanctioned unnatural farming methods using the deadly Methyl Bromide fumigant pesticide now positively identified as killing them.

Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it. Beekeeping is rising in popularity -- from urban rooftops to backyard hives, the world is abuzz with interest

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away and this year we have a few green additions to our family. With my newly turned eco leaf and with one of our family members going vegetarian, this year Thanksgiving presents a whole new set of challenges. But the

What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? You guessed it! (Or perhaps you didn't...) They were all vegetarians! As far back as the 6th century BC the

Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst

Another excellent video on composting with worms in an apartment!

Excellent video on composting organically.