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Chipkos hopes its latest pair of fashionable flip-flops could help save the Costa Rican rainforests. One purchase will protect 100,000 square feet of the eco-rich land. But it's had no takers so far. Did we mention the sandals cost $18,000?
Do you live in a "slow house"? John Brown, founder of the Slow Home Movement (complementing the fast-moving Slow Food Movement), says there's a lot of greenwashing claims made for "eco-homes" that in reality are neither well-made, nor optimized for efficiency. They may be trying to be "slow," but...
Flushable "green" kitty litter isn't green if you flush it down the toilet, as we recently noted, and ordinary clay litter requires mining land for the benefit of cats. So what is the best green kitty litter?
Let's first stipulate that the choice of litter depends on what the cat is willing to...
Flushable cat litter is sometimes marketed as green, but here's the rest of the story: It's not if you flush it down the toilet.
That's right. Don't flush "flushable" cat litter, scientists say. Double bag it and send it to a sanitary landfill.
By flushing cat poop, pet owners unwittingly may...
Light Bulbs Advertised as 'Green' Contain Arsenic and Lead: Study
11:00AM 2/15/2011
Those energy-saving little LED bulbs advertised as eco-friendly -- and used in strings of holiday lights and in car headlights -- actually contain toxic lead, arsenic and some other bad stuff, new research shows.
Alarming? Sure. But in a surprise twist, a study author says: Buy them anyway.
World's 'Greenest' Home? It Depends on What You Mean by Green
8:00AM 2/09/2011
Steven Glenn of Santa Monica lives in "the greenest house on the planet," BusinessWeek says. Which sounds exciting -- except Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute also lives in "what may be the greenest house on the planet," as this video put it.
Lovins has no furnace and pays nothing...
Coming soon to a store near you: Lip balms, cleaning supplies and other products bearing a new green stamp of approval from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes its awkwardly-termed new ecolabel -- "USDA Certified Biobased Product" -- will steer you to buy these products...
Are 'Green' Cleaners Really Green?
12:00PM 11/15/2010
Supposedly "green" cleaners may not be as green as you think. You're probably being exposed to chemicals even if you're using presumably eco-friendly household cleaners, laundry detergents, air fresheners or personal-care products around the house, a new study suggests. Some of those chemicals are...
If you're a college-aged twentysomething like me, you've probably heard the phrase "going green" so many times these past few years that it seems more of a hollow catchphrase than a rallying cry. And though it'd be nice to buy new biodegradable pens, they can cost $6 for a four-pack: and damn, you...
Serious Materials is a green construction materials company that has raised more than $60 million in venture capital, thanks to innovative products like its EcoRock sheetrock, which is made with less than one-fifth the energy used to create standard drywall.
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