15 Ways to Green Your Holiday
Start living greener right now with your holiday to-do list. It's easier than you think if you do it in bite-sized steps. Begin with these 15 ways to green your holiday from The Green Year.
Green Gift Guide: 30 Ideas for the Style Maven, Gadget Guy, Yoga Lover & More
30 ways to give green this year with eco-friendly and fair trade gifts for your favorite eco-chick, Earth mamma, gadget guy, natural beauty, yoga lover or fitness buff.
Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas
The most brilliant ways to wrap your gifts, in merry and bright eco-friendly alternatives to single-use wrapping paper.
7 Ways to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
You don't have to cut out all your favorite treats to make these seven simple food choices to reduce your climate change impact. From eating local and in season to eating less meat and packaged foods, this guide explains how and why to go on a low-carbon diet.
Are LED Lightbulbs Better than Compact Fluorescents?
Why LED lightbulbs are becoming more affordable and practical, how energy efficient they are compared to compact fluorescents (CFLs) and incandescent bulbs, and how to find the newer, brighter LED bulbs and lamps.
Ringo Starr: Save Paper, Stop Sending Me Fan Mail!
Ringo Starr calls for curbing fan mail to save trees and CO2; the first Brangelina home for Katrina victims is completed; Kevin Bacon launches sixdegrees.org,; Neve Campbell speaks out about tar sands exploitation.
5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jack-O-Lantern
It's easy to green your jack-o-lantern and reduce the environmental impact of Halloween fun. These five ways to go eco-friendly with your pumpkin include resources for finding organic pumpkins, recipes for pumpkin bread and pumpkin seeds, and donating or composting spent pumpkins.
Celebrity Planet: Leo's Latest Pet Project? Voter Turnout
Leonardo DiCaprio talks about what may be his true legacy, and his latest pet project: getting out the vote to help ensure better environmental policies. Also: Paul McCartney's veggie gal pals, Liz Hurley's organic products line and Bette Midler's community garden.
I Spy Eco-Spin: 5 Best Ways to Avoid Getting Greenwashed
Environmental science experts outline the five best things you can do to protect yourself from greenwashing — untrue or exaggerated claims of eco-friendly and responsible product sourcing and manufacturing.
Eco-Friendly Ways to Pack a Lunch
Reduce your impact with these eco-friendly ways to pack a lunch, such as using recycled, recyclable and reusable sandwich bags and food containers.
Celebrity Planet: Matt Modine Pedals His Message at DNC
Matthew Modine promotes bike riding at the DNC, Brad Pitt and George Clooney party for charity, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
What Type of Reusable Water Bottle Is Best?
Environmental concerns trump convenience when it comes to single-use plastic water bottles. But concerns about the toxin BPA in reusable plastic bottles has added to consumer confusion. Here’s a guide to help you weigh your options.
How Bad is Leather and What Are the Alternatives?
Demand for leather has a toxic effect on the environment. But with a wealth of fashionable faux alternatives, there’s no need to ever wear animal skins. Find out which brands carry greener options.
Can I Upgrade To A Green Machine?
Are you in the market for a new computer? Find out which brands are the most eco friendly, plus ways to recycle or repurpose your old one.
How to Have An Eco-Friendly Wedding
Getting married and want a green celebration? Don't fret! Here are tips for keeping your wedding low-impact and earth-friendly.
30 Ways You Are Saving The Earth
Gaiam Life readers share what they're doing to reduce their impact on the environment and making a difference by fighting climate change, reducing their waste and helping others join the cause.
5 Best Ways to “Green Out” Your Town
Weekly recycling, home composting, grocery shopping at the farmer’s market – you’ve made some good changes to live greener. So what’s next? It’s time to take your eco-friendly inspirations out into your local community.
Regulating Plastic Bottle Waste
As more Americans turn to bottled water, plastic waste is increasingly swelling landfills and threatening wildlife. Find out what the federal government and states are doing to encourage recycling.
7 Ways to Go a Little Greener
Going green can be as easy as recycling, composting, unplugging your appliances and buying green power from your utilities company.
How Eco-Chic are Eco Handbags?
Handbags and purses made from recycled materials are easy on the Earth, but are they also easy on the eyes? Find out if carrying one is green chic, or none other than a fashion faux-pas.
It’s Easy to Get Greener: Q&A with Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor-activist Ed Begley, Jr., talks about his favorite ways for anyone to live greener, based on his real life that’s just oddball enough to be the topic of HGTV's “Living with Ed."
Is Birth Control the Solution to Climate Change?
With so much focus on global warming, attention has shifted away from another major threat to our planet: overpopulation. If not addressed, our rapidly rising human population will continue exacerbating climate change and ozone depletion, and ultimately exhaust the Earth's resources.
QUIZ: How eco-jolly are you?
Are you an eco-angel? A green grinch? Take our quiz and rate your eco-holiday savvy.
6 Easy Ways to Work Healthier
From improving your ergonomics to reducing eye strain and releasing stress fast, these six tips and solutions can make your corner of the office a healthier place to be.
Q&A: Alanis Morissette on Living Green & Happy
Seven-time Grammy winner Alanis Morissette talks about her eco-friendly choices at home, her moments of spiritual awakening, how she taps her creativity and more.
Boring Bedroom Goes Eco-Wow
See how a designer transformed Nikki Sharp's space into an eco-friendly retreat with organic cotton bedding, recycled materials, fair trade decor and other green decorating finds from gaiam.com.
Van Jones: Green Jobs Are His Mission
Yale Law grad Van Jones and his nonprofit catalyzed the Green Jobs Act, providing $120 million a year to train workers for jobs in solar and renewable energy.
Quiz: How Virtuous Is Your Shopping?
Leslie Garrett wants to change the world, but shoe stores make her weak in the knees. Take her quiz and find out how virtuous you are in this excerpt from her book, "The Virtuous Consumer."
On the Clean Road Again: Willie Nelson on Biodiesel
Music artist, actor and biodiesel maverick Willie Nelson shares his recipe, instructions and justifications for making biodiesel in this excerpt from his book ‘On the Clean Road Again.’
5 Fair Trade FAQs + Buying Guide
A 101 on what makes something fair trade, and how to shop smart to ensure that the person who created that fabulous product is receiving a fair wage in return.
4 Ways to Green a Halloween Costume
Quick: How do you make an eco-friendly Halloween costume? If you have to tap your lifeline to Grandma to answer, get these tips and ideas in your clutches and give new meaning to green goblins.
Next Flight: Less than Carbon Zero?
Airlines are offering carbon-emissions offsets so passengers can zero out the climate impact of their air miles. But what is the industry doing to reduce the harmful emissions planes create in the first place?
Thumbs Down on Anti-bacterial Soaps?
Some research on antibacterial soaps shows that the triclosan many contain doesn’t do the job, and may even pose a health risk. Plus: Are hand sanitizers any better?
Healthy Halloween! 5 Tips + 3 Recipes
Make this spooky holiday healthier for kids of all ages — and still have a monster of a good time. Try these alternatives to candy for trick-or-treat time, plus three recipes for healthier Halloween treats.
Plastic Bags Get the Boot; But Is Paper Any Better?
Let’s face it, sometimes you’ll forget to bring your own bag. A must-read reality check on paper vs. plastic and which is ultimately the more eco-friendly choice.
Are biofuel hybrids a silver bullet?
A biofuel-electric hybrid is a technological no-brainer — but what is the feasibility of mass-producing hybrid cars that run on E85 or biodiesel?
Hot Green Style! Fall Eco-Fashion Trend Report
Eco-friendly fashion model and consultant Summer Rayne Oakes says organic cotton denim, swingy and feminine shapes, vintage, and local fashion finds top this season's eco-style trends.
Can Local Energy Save Us? Ideas from 'Deep Economy'
Bill McKibben makes the case for community-based power including solar and wind energy, noting why it's more efficient, better for the economy, and less vulnerable to attacks and blackouts. From 'Deep Economy.'
Eco-Friendly Detergents: What You Need to Know
Laundry and dishwasher soaps contain synthetic chemicals that can damage the environment and pose health hazards. Here’s how to get dishes and clothes clean without taking it out on the planet.
5 Places to Go Before They're Gone
Five awe-inspiring global destinations that may disappear in our lifetime because of deforestation, climate change and ecosystem degradation — plus, how to help through eco-travel and preservation programs.
