October 2008 - Page 4 of 20

The Eco-Conscious Bag Lady

On a recent jaunt through Boston, a great laptop bag from Helen Riegle of HER Design caught my eye. Upon closer inspecti…

What with the recent Bisphenol-A and phthalate scares, especially in baby bottles, smart new companies are popping up to…

Now you can feel like the eco-friendly version of Willie Wonka. Bloomsberry & Co. and TerraPass, a popular destinati…

It is estimated that restaurants discard billions of single-use chopsticks every year. Whenever I hear an astounding fig…

I remember a time when we chowed down those flaky, fruit-filled pastries every morning with a cup of mountain grown coff…

Looking ready to uproot and scuttle across the landscape, these folding bamboo houses are designed to be a sustainable, …

From the schoolgirl mini to tennis-court chic, the pleated skirt has been a paragon of prettiness for much of the past c…

Alan Greenspan is calling it “a credit tsunami” that policymakers did not expect. The smart ones who convert…