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Get your tickets now: 2010 Women of the Green Generation Conference

The 2010 Women of the Green Generation Conference will be hosted at the LEED-certified eco-luxury Evo South building in downtown Los Angeles. Photo via Flickr: Todd Jones Photography Are women, by...

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‘Whole Paycheck’ lowers prices

Photo via Flickr: Ilovemypit Those still miffed with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey over his decidedly right-wing health care harangue last summer will not be pleased to read that their most effective...

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Stop vampire power from sucking your wallet dry

This video would probably be more apropos to post around Halloween than the middle of August, thanks to the Vincent Price–esque voice-over, but I thought it would be the perfect complement to my Eco...

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A billion people could become climate refugees

Photo via Flickr: Edyta Materka I’m sorry to come back from the holiday weekend with sobering news, but when I read this yesterday it took my breath away: One billion people (a billion people!) may...

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New iPad app lets you sign PDFs paper-free

Photo via Flickr: Veronica Belmont I apologize: A hectic writing schedule has kept me from posting here regularly in the past couple months. But you know what else has been slowing me down? Signing...

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Want to see the state of the economy? Head to the bulk bins

Photo via Flickr: Bcmom A few hours after my Eco Etiquette column about eating organic on a food stamp budget was published yesterday, I went marketing at Whole Foods. While I’m not egotistical enough...

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Two words you should get used to hearing: Collaborative Consumption

There are two words that I’ve been hearing a lot of these days: Collaborative Consumption. If you haven’t, and this sounds like the beginning of a sociology lecture, then hold your horses — while the...

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A more effective alternative to the plastic bag tax?

  Photo via Flickr: How can I recycle this Much to-do has been made over the plastic bag tax. While Washington, DC, was able to successfully impose a 5-cent grocery bag fee, other cities’ efforts (like...

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Green companies top the Inc. 500 list

A wise tree hugger once told me: Ecology and economy — you cannot separate the two. Nowhere is this clearer than in this year’s Inc. 500, the much-anticipated annual list of America’s fastest growing...

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The link between old sneakers and our schools

Photo via Flickr: rolands.lakis It’s been two years since I bought a new pair of running shoes (I switched to walking when I was pregnant), and I finally picked up a new pair yesterday. There’s the...

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