Category: Green news

This was Oprah’s latest favorite thing (of course the audience all got one): the Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device. It is a portable wireless reading device where you can download books, newspapers and magazines. Of course, it’s on the pricey side ($359!) but Oprah said it pays for itself. Think how much money you can…

Reject shopping and consumerism, reject waste! That’s basically what Buy Nothing Day is all about. All you need to do is to not buy anything for a whole day. Sounds simple enough, right? Saturday November 29th 2008 is Buy Nothing Day – it’s a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch…

Every year, the same dilemma: What to do with all the sweets your kids got for All Hallows’ Eve. Some dentists have banded together to reuse and recycle leftover candy through Halloween Candy Buyback. The sweets are then sent to American troops stationed overseas. So trick your children into doing something good for the country…

Jessica Alba is pretty well known for her support for important causes, and the environment is just one of the issues she’s passionate about. In the upcoming issue of InStyle magazine, she and husband Cash Warren are showing off their eco-friendly home, which features vintage light fixtures, recycled furniture, and non-toxic paint.

I have a full bottle of Darvocet sitting in my medicine cabinet. My doctor said to get rid of it so nobody can accidentally get into it. We all know (everybody NOD YES) not to flush medications down the toilet because it all comes back into the waterways and drinking water supply. Aside from your…

Going away on holiday and want to be greener? Check out Travel+Leisure’s list of eco-friendly gadgets you can take with you on your vacation, like solar-powered chargers, a biodegradable laptop, and batteries you can charge with a USB connection.

I heard about Pristine Recovery on the Z100 morning show the other day. So I thought I’d take a page out of Carolina Bermudez’s Rage Page, and feature it here before National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ends. The company was started by a young breast cancer survivor so the products are all natural, non-toxic and…

Blade by Sabertec promises to increase a car’s fuel efficiency and reduce the pollutants being released by the vehicle, and people don’t have to do anything but attach it to their car’s tailpipe. The premise sounds interesting and ridiculously simple you’d wonder why no one ever thought of developing such a product before. There’s a…

If you’ve given up buying bottled water and started using Brita or Pur home water filters, you probably know there is no way to recycle them. Europe already has a take-back recycling program. Go to Take Back the Filter to sign a petition to Brita (which is owned by Clorox) or to send your used…

Houses of worship in some Massachusetts cities are going green to save some green. More and more companies in Canada are starting to rethink business travel and trying to find ways to make it even greener. This isn’t actually green news, but it’s an interesting sign of how the green bubble has grown–and weakened–on the…