This is a brilliant idea, and I am amazed that it took this long to for something like this to come to market. This new household cleaning product, called “Replenish“, is basically an empty plastic bottle made from PET-1 with a “twist-on” bottom full of concentrated cleaner. You fill the plastic bottle up with water, [...]
It sure does seem like people left and right are jumping on the green bandwagon these days. Just look at the past figures and future projections for the Hybrid/Electric vehicle market: The reason growth at the turn of the millennium seemed stagnant is because of the limited supply of batteries necessary for an electric vehicle’s [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are there efforts to increase bike lanes and paths around the nation? I’d like to be able to bike more instead of drive, but I’m concerned about safety. Around the U.S. new bike lanes and paths are all the rage, helping cash-strapped cities simultaneously green operations and trim budgets – adding bike lanes [...]
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission proposed changes to the methods that companies use to claim environmental friendliness. The FTC is currently reviewing its “Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims“, which was last updated in 1998 – well before “green” became a marketing catchphrase used to sell products. Some proposed changes include: – [...]
We all end up with it in our house – old radios, televisions, computers, CFL’s, portable CD players, tape decks – but do you know what to do with it when you are ready to dispose of it? Many communities have made it illegal to dispose of e-waste in your regular trash because of the [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What’s being done to clean up hog farming operations in places like Iowa and North Carolina and others where the industry is quite large? I’ve heard horrific stories about man-made lagoons of animal waste spilling into and fouling rivers and groundwater and the like. Hog farming has always been a messy business, but [...]
As I wrote last month, it can get pretty annoying when your friends harass you to vote for their favorite cause to “win” a grant from the now-ubiquitous Pepsi Refresh Project. But lately I’ve been especially disappointed to see so many worthy food causes jumping on this marketing-disguised-as-philanthropy bandwagon. Let’s not forget that PepsiCo owns [...]
