By Barbara Kessler
Environmentalists have long been nudging consumers to think about the real cost of the paper products that they use, to understand that toilet paper and paper towels exact a price in the loss of the trees required to make them.
This green price tag is highest when manufacturers of household paper goods use [...]

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By Harriet Blake
The day is coming when grocery shoppers will no longer be asked the familiar question, “paper or plastic?” Or if they are, the question will be about a different kind of plastic and a new sort of paper.
The current standard grocery store plastic bag, which is made of a limited resource – [...]

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By John DeFore
Readers who share entrepreneur Shai Agassi’s enthusiasm for a future of all-electric autos might get hot under the collar viewing Chris Paine’s 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? If you thought the hurdles to phasing out gas-guzzlers were mostly technological, the film is a brutal eye-opener.
Structured like a whodunit, the movie first [...]

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By Barbara Kessler
Drying the laundry on the clothesline faded into disfavor sometime in the mid 20th Century when it descended from the commonplace to become a mark of poverty, even shame.
Consider the vernacular: You wouldn’t want to be “hung out to dry” or caught “airing dirty laundry in public.” Or would you? [...]

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By Barbara Kessler
U.S. lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, are poised to enact controls to reduce carbon emissions that would ease global warming…and that’s heating up some serious activism in the United States.
In Vermont, a group of young organizers has decided to seize the moment and push for Congress to take the boldest possible steps on [...]

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