Next year, baby bottles in the EU will be required to be BPA free. BPA is the chemical that buzzed around the eco-blogosphere last year as it was discovered to be a harmful off-gas of common plastic products. Although an organic compound, Bisphenol A’s (abbreviated as BPA) negative affect on fetuses, young children and [...]
Continue Reading →It’s that time of year. The temperature is dropping and I woke up to snow flying through the air. Although Halloween isn’t typically thought of as a winter prep day, I am taking some steps to tighten up my home right before carving some pumpkins.
These tips are from various sources and will [...]
Continue Reading →Take a stroll through any Walmart (shudder) or one of those ubiquitous halloween supply stores that pop up in vacant restaurants and commercial spaces and you’ll find row upon row of cheap, plastic, environmentally wasteful costumes. Targeted at both children and adults, these costumes are manufactured for single use because they simply fall apart after [...]
Continue Reading →Treehouses were cool when I was growing up. And they became even cooler when Star Wars came out. This real treehouse was inspired by the Ewok village in the third (6th) Star Wars movie.
Built in Costa Rica, the builders got the idea after touring the property and finding out it was being advertised [...]
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Dear EarthTalk: I am very interested in purchasing household cleaners whose ingredients and final product are not tested on animals. Where do I look? – Debbie Reek, via e-mail
According to [...]
Continue Reading →The following two videos give an overview of an Earthship. Earthship biotecture is the product of forty years of research and development into completely self-sufficient housing made entirely from recycled materials.
Continue Reading →EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: Which woods are OK to purchase, and which are not, in the interest of preserving forests and not harming those who depend upon them? – Jon Steiner, Boise, ID
Deforestation continues to be [...]
Continue Reading →Midsummer often prompts many of us to shear our locks and don cooler hairstyles to help us survive the heat. As I recently had my own coif chopped up and saw the heaps of hair collecting around the chair, I began to wonder if there aren’t some ways to reuse this particular resource. Here’s [...]
Continue Reading →Despite persistent questions by some about the health of eating genetically engineered (GE) crops or the food from animals that eat them, and concerns about their impact on the environment, the use of these new designer plants has risen sharply.
The USDA just released data on the increasing use of GE crops [...]
Continue Reading →A few months back I was shocked to hear that owning a dog has an ecological impact similar to that of owning a car. New Zealanders Brenda and Robert Vale, authors of Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, claim that a large size dog is responsible for more [...]
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