Did you know that each year Americans throw away around 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags? Less than 0.6 percent of …
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Getting Purelled: The New Fixation of an Ailing Nation
Getting Purelled is the growing phenomenon of sanitizing one’s germ-infested mitts with the alcohol-based, Johnson…
15 Every Day Items You Can Recycle for Cash
Your principal incentive to recycle? That one’s a no-brainer: the environment, of course. But, it doesn’t ju…
Re-Wrap
While we generally avoid traditional paper gift wrap these days, a Berkeley MBA and mom has developed a line of more res…
10 Reasons Why the Planet Loves My Dog
This is the third in Luanne’s new lifestyle column, Life in the Green Lane. Read the inaugural column, “The …
A Handy Reference Guide to the 20 Greenest Materials
True, we are still living in a material world, but cotton grown with pesticides is no longer the fabric of our lives. Th…
San Francisco Library Launches New Ecocard
The San Francisco Public Library is lending an ear to the landfill crisis by piloting a new library card program that su…
Eco Lent: An Inconvenient Diet
Now that my pancakes have been flipped (and, in one instance, removed from the ceiling), it’s time for me to take …