Atash Hagmahani is not waiting for the stock market to recover. The former high-tech professional turned urban survivalist has already moved his money into safer investments: Rice and beans, for starters.
Letting someone you've slept with know that you have inadvertently exposed them to a sexually transmitted disease can now be done with the click of a computer mouse.
Canada declared a chemical widely used in food packaging a toxic substance on Saturday and will now move to ban plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A.
If you're like me, you often feel deluged by requests for donations from environmental nonprofits. But this week, my inbox has been filled with news of cool things these nonprofits have accomplished! Some of the highlights:
>> Greenpeace pushes for greener Macs -- and gets them! Last week, Apple debuted a new line of Macs that don't use PVC internal cables or internal components containing brominated flame retardants. The good news is in part due to Greenpeace's... Read more...
Don't believe the multitasking hype, scientists say. New research shows that we humans aren't as good as we think we are at doing several things at once. But it also highlights a human skill that gave us an evolutionary edge.
Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama part company on many issues, but they agree that the Bush administration’s policies on global warming were far too weak.
Tropical cyclones may be a tiny help in slowing global warming by washing large amounts of vegetation and soil containing greenhouse gases into the sea, scientists said on Sunday.
Let’s face it. All this eco-crafting is great fun, and it’s
wonderful to think we could save the planet by saving our bottlecaps, but the
truth is, projects like these have a limited impact on the rampant consumer
culture that drives the manufacture of all those bottlecaps to begin with.
On
the other hand, the more we reuse on a day-to-day basis, the more uncomfortably
decadent just discarding those bottlecaps begins to feel. So save them we do,
but truth be told, we don’t always... Read more...