Oceans on brink of catastrophe
By Michael McCarthy The world's oceans are faced with an unprecedented loss of species comparable to the great mass extinctions of prehistory, a major report suggests today. The seas are degenerating far f...
Sherwin-Williams Wins Green Chem Award for Bottle-Based Paint
Sherwin-Williams has won an EPA green chemistry award for paints made from recycled soda bottles, among other materials. The company won the Designing Greener Chemicals category at the ...
UN Secretary-General launches the “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, Ugandan Minister of Water & Environment the Hon. Maria Mutagamba, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, today laun...
Eco-Friendly Pet Grooming
Our pets are like members of the family. We do our best to keep them happy, healthy and well groomed. In return, they give us lots of love, companionship and entertainment. Grooming is an important part of pe...
Anthony Weiner: A Look At His Eco-friendly Political Career
By Merlin Miclat A few weeks after a lewd picture of himself he shared through Twitter surfaced, Representative Anthony Weiner announced his resignation from Congress. Amidst the weeks of controversy that ...
Sustainable lifestyles
By Tracey Bedford Leisure probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about addressing the sustainability of lifestyles. But in fact a surprising 27% of the greenhouse gas emissio...
Schwarzenegger: Sustainable energy drive should emphasize jobs
Ambitious UN goals for producing clean and sustainable energy can be met by promoting the wider benefits of clean energy policies - including economic growth and job creation - film star and former California g...
Eco Friendly Car Concept: Chevy Era
By Ian Andrew While the Chevy Volt is picking up steam as an all-electric, zero-emissions eco friendly car, Chevy has released the designs for a new concept car called Era, which takes the concept of a gre...
Beauty products not so organic?
An environmental group filed a lawsuit Thursday against 26 cosmetic companies, claiming they are improperly labeling products such as shampoo, facial washes and soaps as organic. The Center for Environmental H...
WeedRobe
By Amy RolphNicole Dextras is a Vancouver B.C. artist with an unusual medium and motif: Where weeds and fashion meet. Dextras’ work consists of seasonal collections that make statements, usually about consumeri...