Archive for July, 2008

Clean Energy by 2018

Al Gore’s call to move to a clean energy society by 2018 has not exactly been received with overwhelming support. Yesterday the former vice president challenged the next US president to help switch all of the nation’s electricity to solar, wind and other clean energy sources within 10 years to help end global warming and […]

How Organic Do You Have to Be?

The Daily Green has been getting blasted by readers responding to an article called “10 Foods You Don’t Have to Buy Organic.” The article, subtitled, “They Aren’t Loaded with Pesticides, So You Can Spend Your Organic Dollars Elsewhere,” lists 10 fruits and vegetables - asparagus, broccoli, bananasa, cabbage, kiwi, mangoes, onions, papaya and pineapple - that […]

Wal-Mart Goes Green

Wal-Mart gets kicked around a lot. They’ve been blamed for putting small businesses out of business, paying workers too little and contributing to low wages around the world by focusing with laser intensity on selling products at the lowest possible price. And they deserve much of that criticism. But the corporate behemoth is doing some […]