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Whole Foods Teams with New 'Gimme 5' Recycling Program
Did you know most yogurt and cottage cheese containers and other polypropylene #5 plastics end up in landfills? The plas…
Eco Links to Green Your Weekend
Here’s a whole new kind of scam – pretending to be exposing an animal rights outrage. As greenUPGRADER repor…
Feed the Need for Food Safety
Security was exceptionally tight surrounding the sentencing in the tainted milk scandal in China. Police roadblocks were…
A Collective Consciousness of Hope
School children across America, like the this group from Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco, gathered to sing s…
Liquid Wood: Plastic v2.0?
If plastic is such a one-way ecological nightmare of a substance, why do we keep using it? Like it or not, the world cur…
Diagnosis Wii-itis
I’m a pretty sore loser at tennis, especially when my husband rockets those serves toward my face and I want to th…
Eco Links to Green Your Weekend
We can understand wanting to fill your gas tank with vegetable oil. But washing your hands in it? Amazingly, a way’…