Chicken and turkey are among the most popular and versatile foods Americans eat, but they also bring health risks to your plate. Most factory-farmed poultry is raised with antibiotics—which leads to antibiotic resistance in humans. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to cut the budget for poultry inspections and allow big chicken companies to police themselves. […]
Halloween tops the list of holidays where lots of money is spent. The U.S. alone spends a mind-boggling $7 billion on candy, costumes and decorations. Much of these Halloween accoutrements are made overseas, shipped here and disposed of shortly after. Unfortunately, this makes for unnecessary waste and carbon emissions. Want to have a great Halloween but hate […]
If you’re planning a vacation and considering taking a cruise, you may want to consider choosing a ship that’s environmentally responsible. As you’ll read, not all cruise lines are good stewards of the planet. Friends of the Earth‘s 2013 Cruise Ship Report Card says some of the 16 cruise lines graded are getting greener, but more than 40 […]
If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms. Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down […]
People who work to save rainforests and protect wildlife are urging consumers to refrain from buying Halloween candy made with palm oil. Why? For one thing, palm oil producers in Indonesia and Malaysia rely on forced and child labor and Indonesia’s palm oil industry is rife with human-rights abuses. For another, companies clear tropical rainforests to plant their oil palm trees, which […]
Wait a minute—how do dryer sheets do that?Mmm, the fresh scent of laundry that’s been dried with dryer sheets. Unfortunately, dryer sheets can contain some harmful chemicals—including hidden fragrance chemicals that lots of people are sensitive to—that vent off into the air we breath and rub off on our clothes and then onto our skin. […]
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