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 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 […]
I always knew I liked Hawaii. Surf, sand, and endless sun make it a wonderful playground for anyone who enjoys being outdoors. But now I like it even more because they’ve just become the first state in the nation to require solar water heating systems in new single family homes. Governor Linda Lingle signed the […]
Still struggling with the question of paper or plastic? The new green answer is, “I brought my own.”
Last year San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to ban plastic bags, and this month China made headlines when they started enforcing a strict no-plastic-bag policy. In Ireland, Sweden and German, special taxes have been […]
Zero Pollution Motors plans to start taking orders later this year for what could be the cleanest car on the road - the Air Car. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2007, the Air Car was invented by a guy who knows his cars. Frenchman Guy Negre is a former […]
