Living Green

GoodGuide scanner makes healthy food shopping point and click 0
Posted 16 hours, 10 minutes ago By Todd Woody Thanks to a new barcode scanner app, grocery shoppers can aim their iPhones at 63,000 different food products for details on the health, environmental, and social "performance" of the products and their makers.
Citizen Martha

Martha Stewart blisters meat industry in Thanksgiving show 7
Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago By Tom Philpott Martha Stewart arrays her considerable popular appeal against factory meat farming by featuring Food Inc. director Robert Kenner and anti-meat polemicist Jonathan Safran Foer on her Thanksgiving show.
Of price and men

Making buildings more efficient: looking beyond price 5
Posted 6 days, 2 hours ago By David Roberts The market for building efficiency is snarled with market and behavioral failures that prevent price signals from getting translated into action. Instead of merely raising prices further, policymakers ought to look into ways to correct some of those failures.
Feast Your Eyes

Ask Umbra on trash, toxics, and tots 7
Posted 6 days, 3 hours ago By Umbra Fisk Is composting bad for landfills? Are eco-products sprayed with chemicals? And could melamine cabinets make a safe changing table? Umbra advises.
They Nailed It

Slideshow: Reinventing the JP Green House 1
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago By Andrée Zaleska, Ken Ward Ken Ward and Andrée Zaleska are turning an old Boston store into a new model of eco-living -- here's a glimpse at the work underway.
Sustainababy

Growing up green: How to shop for a green baby 4
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago By Anna Fahey Introducing a baby into the family means introducing a whole slew of stuff into our lives -- much of it bulky, expensive, and plastic.
Sustainababy

Growing up green: Breathing for two 1
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago By Anna Fahey Anna Fahey explores what energy and climate policy has to do with her baby's IQ.
Tress for Success

Ask Umbra on shower caps, computers, and junk mail 20
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago By Umbra Fisk Does anyone make a non-vinyl shower cap? Is it better to turn computers off at night or leave them running? And how, how can you get rid of all that junk mail? Umbra advises.
Slow food, fast trains

Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 5
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago By Tom Philpott Perhaps feeling punchy because it's Monday, Tom Philpott jots down some random thoughts after reading an interview with home-cooking authority Mark Bittman.
Kids Learn the Darnedest Things

Ask Umbra on climate-skeptic teachers, low-flow toilets, and more 32
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago By Umbra Fisk Umbra addresses crap of the educational and evacuational varieties, as well as helping a reader with New Year's resolutions and revealing another resource for greening your life.