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  • Fresh Pet Food

    Give your furry friends healthy food without preservatives or fillers.  Try Freshpet products.

  • Save the Wolves!

    From Credo Action: To make up for the fact that rapid tar sands oil mining is threatening caribou herds by destroying vast swaths of rainforest habitat in Alberta, the Canadian government has called for strychnine poisoning and aerial shooting of thousands of wolves in areas of tar sands mining.1 Tell Prime Minister Harper: Stop Canada’s…

  • Ocean Conservation

    Learn more about ocean conservation on Sea Web.  Here’s their 2012 Super Bowl ad.

  • Biking green with Bambike

    Riding a bike instead of driving is certainly one way to live a more eco-friendly life. You can make things even greener if you’re riding an eco-friendly bike, though. Bambike (Bamb EcoLogical Technology Inc.) offers a number of bicycles made out of bamboo and feature a rattan seat. The bikes are handmade by people who…

  • Jessica Alba launches Honest.com

    Actress Jessica Alba has a new role: founder of The Honest Company, which came about out a desire to find safe, healthful, eco-friendly baby products for her kids. The Honest Company also makes sure to give back to organizations concerned with health and social issues and for this year, they are teaming up with Baby2Baby,…

  • The good green days of yore

    This particular blog post has been shared by a few people on my Facebook news feed. Simply put, it’s someone hitting back at the cashier who told him or her that the older generation didn’t do enough for the environment when they were younger, and the person who wrote this rattled off all the ways…

  • Recycled bottles can create a dream home

    In El Salvador, a couple, Prudencio Amaya, 102, and Maria Ponce, 78, decided that not having enough money to build a home won’t stop them from having their dream house. Their home, called “La Casita Encantada” or “The Enchanted Cottage,” has drawn attention for its clever use of recycled bottles as building material. Prudencio and…

  • Slovenian biologist embarks on a green flight

    Matevz Lenarcic, a Slovenian biologist and environmentalist, has a pretty interesting project this year: fly around the world in the lightest plane while using up the least amount of fuel. His aircraft, a Virus-SW914, weighs only 640 lbs. While he’s up in the air, the plane will record levels of black carbon, and Lenarcic will…