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In wake of the largest egg recall in United States history, the Dalai Lama is speaking out against the cruel egg industry. With more than a half billion eggs already recalled because of possible salmonella contamination, it’s clear that modern...
We generally update the contents of our closet with fresh new fashion finds, not because our duds ever have a chance to wear out, but simply because we’re conditioned into believing that they are ‘out.’ This endless cycle of purging and purchasing...
His portrayal of brawny, less-than-brainy lothario Sam Malone in Cheers is woven into the fabric of our pop culture, however Ted Danson has proven throughout the decades that his range as an actor goes well beyond dumb and good-looking. Whether he...
Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah’s Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be … Read the...
Credit: Mike Baird Asian carp aren’t the only invasive species causing trouble in the United States. While the monster fish captures headlines as it inches toward the Great Lakes, other species have already colonized other parts of the country,...
Image credit: OedipuSphinx (Creative Commons) A few years ago I got into a heated debate about Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth with a green-minded friend of mine. My hippy friend couldn’t stand the movie—not because of anything it said,...
Image credit: OnEarth Magazine When I wrote about the NRDC’s new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming , the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingly...
photo via flickr Chalk it up to eco-awareness, The Great Recession, or increased availability of pregnancy prevention methods but people in the US are having fewer kids. News stats from the National Center for Health Statistics show that for 1,000...
Image: eutrophication&hypoxia’s photostream, Flickr Natural human optimism leads one to hope that hazardous chemicals wastes discarded by humans are broken down in the natural environment, until they are once again harmless. When scientists...
