Article Archive for Healthy Home

Look good and live green? What used to be an oxymoron is now as easy as finding organic cereal. Sustainable fashion has grown in...

The Food and Drug Administration has given irradiated spinach the go-ahead, but many people aren't too psyched about eating nuked...

Q. Dear EarthTalk: I've read that plastic bottles are not always safe to reuse over and over as harmful chemicals can leach out...

All across the country, parents are packing the car, teens are enjoying their last summer hurrahs, and universities are busy...

Women spend an average of four hundred hours a year on their beauty routine. That's a lot of time spent rubbing in lotions,...

How unplugging can save money and energy

Ghosts may not scare most of us, but phantom loads are a different story. A phantom load—as you probably know—is the electricity...

I'm something of a mosquito magnet. The reason, as I once learned while traveling through Mexico, that I've got something called...

Is it true that the DEET used in most mosquito repellents is toxic? If so what problems does it cause? And what are some non-...

During his work to cure polio in the early 1950s, Jonas Salk was smothered by a case of researcher’s block so debilitating that...

Cotton really is the “fabric of our lives.” But because it’s also one of the most pesticide-laden crops in the world, more...