Residents of Spokane, Washington are having a dirty time of it with their dishes. Since July of 2008, dishwasher detergents containing phosphates have been banned in Spokane County – a ban that will go statewide in July 2010. However, residents are smuggling in less eco-friendly dishwater detergents from neighboring areas, because they say the phosphate-free [...]

Although celebrity fashion lines have been more “miss” than “hit,” Pamela Anderson is taking a whack at it – green style. Anderson is teaming up with fashion designer Richie Rich for a line of environmentally-friendly fashion. The line named “Muse” will be vegan and feature leather-free shoes and casual clothes, including hooded tops, skirts and swimwear. [...]

From a worldwide concert, to a motion picture, it seems that everywhere you look Al Gore is urging people to decrease their carbon footprint. With the latest elections it seems that Al Gore isn’t the only one who is discussing this topic, but does it have the staying power to actually have an impact on [...]

Thus enforcing his commitment to the environment, today President Barack Obama has signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act that sets aside more than 2 million acres that protects land from California’s Sierra Nevada mountains to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. The bill also expands wilderness protection efforts. The law represents one of the [...]

Christopher Booker recently wrote an article for the Telegraph in which he interviews Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner about his criticisms of Al Gore’s estimates on the rising sea levels. Mörner claims that Gore is simply fear-mongering and is basing all his estimates on “deliberate ignorance and reliance on rigged computer models.” Mörner’s research, [...]

Meatless Monday is a national public health campaign that encourages you to cut meat from your diet once a week, reducing your saturated fat intake by 15%. Diets high in saturated fat, which are found mainly in meat and high-fat dairy products, increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer. These are four [...]

It’s the environmental hazard so deliciously minty and refreshing that it’s easy to forget about. Chewing gum. Gum has tons of non-organic crap in it – meaning it takes years for your spat out wad of Doublemint to decompose. Apparently, Mexican scientists had hah enough, and have developed Chicza Rainforest Gum. The gum is made [...]

Earth Hour 2009 has kicked off in some parts of the world and has already been touted a resounding success in Sydney harbor and Beijing. The Earth Hour Web site reported that hundreds of people lined Sydney harbor to witness the dimming skyline at 8.30 p.m., the local time that nearly 4,000 participating cities around [...]

She may have the biceps to match her giant ego, but the fact of the matter is, Madonna is doing great things for the people who are affected by AIDS in Malawi. Madonna’s new documentary that chronicles her efforts in Malawi, I Am Because We Are is now available with limited commercial interruption on Hulu.com. [...]

Congress passed hike in corporate average fleet fuel economy (CAFE) in 32 years in 2007. This was a much needed regulation but it left a lot of details undefined. Basically all it stated was that CAFE would be boosted to 35 mpg by 2020, but was very vague on the specific on how we would [...]