A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… The last time we sent off our W-9s and cast our ballots, we don’t remember consenting to Congress aiding and abetting corporate control over the food system, lining the pockets of industrial agriculture corporations that pollute our land, pump our food with harmful [...]
The Pipe is a documentary telling the story of the Rossport community in Ireland which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, [...]
The Farm Bill is a critical piece of legislation that determines our nation’s agricultural, food access and food safety policies for the next ten years. Usually, it is debated and voted upon in an open process by all of Congress. But, the “Super Committee,” tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from our government spending, is currently [...]
Smoking rates have declined steadily here in the United States, due to high taxes and the availability of health information, but the fact remains that 20.6% of our adult population still smokes cigarettes. That’s an estimated 46 million people discarding cigarette butts every day, and many of them are still throwing them out the window [...]
Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. Since the first “sins of Greenwashing” study was published in 2007, the world has re-awakened to the issue of false and misleading environmental claims. Although we at terrachoice have [...]
Q: Why don’t more states mandate deposits on beverage bottles as incentives for people to return them? Most bottles I’ve seen only list a few states on them. So-called bottle bills, otherwise known as container recycling laws, mandate that certain types of beverage containers require a small deposit (usually five or ten cents) at checkout [...]
