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Latest Green Living Stories
Earth-Friendliest Autos of 2009 The volatility and uncertainty of the future of fossil fuels has prompted rethinking around how we get from point A to point B. Here's a rundown of the Earth-friendliest cars of 2009.
15 Ways to Go Green for as Little as .... FREE Going green doesn’t have to be costly. Check out these inexpensive eco-friendly actions from changing the margins on your printer to scheduling a home energy review.
Green Resolutions for the New Year But before you pull out your crumpled copy of last year’s resolutions consider greening your resolutions. The beauty of living a greener life is that you’ll not only be contributing to a healthier world, you and your family will be healthier too.
How to Have a Solstice Celebration What do you do at a Winter Solstice party? Get ideas on what to serve, ways to celebrate the shortest day of the year, and how to entertain in ways that meaningfully mark the changing of the seasons. Includes a recipe for traditional wassail.
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.
How & Why to Get (or Create) a Green Job: Q&A with Van Jones Van Jones' 'New Deal' could get America back to work while weaning us off oil and coal. We asked him four questions about how you can put his ideas to work for you, your business or a friend who needs a new line of work.
6 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Dinner You don’t have to go cold tofurkey to green your Thanksgiving meal. Try these six ways keep Thanksgiving traditions while putting eco-friendly twists on your feast, starting with slashing the carbon footprint of your turkey dinner with all the fixin's.
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.
5 Holiday Eco Decorating Tips A guide to making any new additions to your holiday decor more eco-friendly. Five tips from an interior designer on how to choose more holiday decorations.
5 Easy (and Cheap!) Ways to Detox Your Home Amazingly simple and affordable ways to detox your home, recommended by experts in how to get pollutants and chemicals out of your living spaces — and keep them out. Why? The facts on how common household toxins affect human health may surprise you.
Buy Obama or Palin to Help Needy Kids eBay auctions dolls in the likeness of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin; Corey Feldman releases an album with his band Truth Movement; Hayden Panettiere's whale tale; Daryl Hannah's dhlovelife vlog.
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.
Celebrity Planet: Rachel McAdams Has Eco-OCD Rachel McAdams loves to ride her bike, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds enjoy a green honeymoon, and more in this week's Celebrity Planet.
What's So Bad About Chemical Cleaning Products? What exactly are the cancer-causing toxic ingredients in household cleaners? What are the dangers of using these products, and what are your alternatives, including store brands and homemade cleaning solutions?
5 Qs for Jessica Biel: Is She a Green Nerd? In a time when eco-activism is practically a prerequisite for stardom, we asked Jessica Biel to reveal how green she really is in her everyday life, including the nerdiest things she does for the planet.
Celebrity Planet: Katherine Heigl's Fishy Situation Katherine Heigl rescues a fish while on vacation, Brad and Angelina donate to human rights causes, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
Solar Cooking Saves Trees and Does Global Good Solar cookers are helping families in remote areas of the world cook without firewood — helping reduce deforestation and carbon emissions from wood fires while offering solutions to health and social problems.
How Solar Cookers Work + 3 Recipes for Backyard or Backwoods A starter guide to solar cookers including how they work, types of sun cookers, how fast they cook food, and three recipes you can make in your backyard or the backwoods.
Green Your Wardrobe: 5 Fall Eco-Fashion Trends Being fashionable while maintaining your eco-ideals is all a matter of knowing where to shop and what to buy. Check out our coverage of the top five sustainable fall fashion trends and where to find them.
Celebrity Planet: Scarlett Johansson's a Celluva Environmentalist Scarlett Johansson gives recycling some sex appeal, Michael Jackson is confused about organics, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
What Environmental Issues Will The Next President Face? From climate change to offshore drilling, nuclear energy, toxic waste cleanup and more, this guide offers perspective on the challenging environmental issues that the next president will face.
Celebrity Planet: Biggest Loser Host Alison Sweeney's Eco-Attitude The winner of The Biggest Loser leads an eco-friendly lifestyle, the Jonas Brothers walk a mile in an African child's shoes, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
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: Adrian Grenier Spends Green to Go Green Adrian Grenier doesn't mind dropping green to go green, Woody Harrelson lures Owen Wilson to his green paradise in Maui, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
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