The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is running a campaign called Meatless Mondays. The campaign encourages everyone to replace one day of meat eating with one day of vegetarian meals and by doing so we can help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. However, Meatless Mondays has an additional benefit by reducing ...

The third UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report was released Friday and came with some good news and bad for environmental groups. First the good --delegates resisted pressure to tone down the report, which says there is still time to avoid the worst effects of global warming if we take drastic action in reducing our dependace ...

The United States and China feel they have a right to add some “truthiness” to the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is part of the series of reports published by the scientists and climate researchers from around the world. The latest report due out on Friday outlines how quick action can limit the ...

One thing was immediately evident at the Green Living Show in Toronto last weekend. It was corporate, and it was mainstream! I say that with an exclamation point because as much as I enjoyed the Green Festival in Chicago a few weeks ago, I was a bit disappointed that it was populated by the choir. Sure we all wanted to lower our footprints, and ...

One of the best presentations at last weekend's Green Festival in Chicago was about choosing where to spend your dollars to make the most difference. Dr. Ellis Jones, author of The Better World Shopping Guide, talked about the rating system he developed for choosing the best and worst companies to put your money behind. The pocket-size guide is ...

The Green Festival opened its doors in Chicago this weekend, just in time for Earth Day. The windy city is showing a very strong shade of green and its not just from the new spring growth that is everywhere on this warm sunny weekend.  From recycled billboard bags to bamboo yoga pants, there is something for everyone at this years show.  ...

This Saturday we'll be journeying to the current center of the green universe -- Chicago, this year's host of the Green Festival. Among the things planners promise we'll be able to do there? Shop for eco-fashions, fair trade products and solar technology; take part in how-to workshops; sample organic food and local beer and wine; listen to live ...

A recent Ipsos Reid survey  in Canada revealed that the current crop of teenagers hasn’t quite got the hang of having a small ecological footprint. Almost 94% said that they should be environmentally conscious, but just 20% said they make an effort to purchase environmental products. We all face the challenge of not just talking the talk, but ...

Global oil production is expected to peak sometime within the next 11 years and then begin to decline, spelling big problems for an oil dependant economy. The findings themselves aren't new, but are based on a controversial new way of modeling developed by physicist Fredrik Robelius, a petroleum engineer at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. ...

''Pop-culture gaming'' has taken the next logical step with global warming wagers becoming a growing segment. Media outlets are reporting BetUs.com is offering those who like to take a chance with their money the opportunity to gamble for or against predicted outcomes of climate change. Among the options, 100-1 odds that polar bears will be ...