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.
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.
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.
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.
Why Humidify, and Which Type of Humidifier Is Best?
Health experts weigh in on whether you need a cool mist or warm mist humidifier, plus how and why using a humidifier can help prevent and alleviate cold, allergy and sinus symptoms as well as dry skin and nose bleeds.
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.
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?
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.
5 Ways to Save Money on Organic Foods
Go organic without going broke with these tips from green guru Danny Seo. Save money with coupons from organic brands, bulk and store-brand organics, and our how-to video on growing organically at home.
Are Plastic Food Containers Safe to Reuse?
Public fears over chemicals like BPA have given plastic bottles and food containers a bad rap, but not all plastics are harmful to your health. Find out which container brands are safe, and the alternatives to plastic.
Eco–Dorm Room Decorating
It’s time to send your young adults back to college. They’ve got their own ideas about what’s stylish and (hopefully) a dedication to buying eco-friendly products whenever possible. Here's a guide to help them decorate their dorm in eco-style.
Share this list with them of nine ways to send them off with green gear that is as easy on the eye as it is on the environment, and hopefully they’ll be as sold on the products as you are.
Get Gorgeous: A Natural Guide to Skincare and Makeup
Get gorgeous with this natural guide to skincare and makeup. It covers the most nourishing, luxurious, and safe products on the market. Save yourself as well as the planet.
How To Keep Cool Without A.C.
Find out how to keep cool without turning on air conditioning, and survive the summer heat without paying outrageous electric bills.
10 Ways to Green Your Pet
Why is eco-friendly pet care important? Traditional pet supplies often include noxious chemicals. Not only is your pet exposed to these questionable aspects of their everyday goods, but you are too!
Non-Toxic Ways to Keep Bugs at Bay
DEET is a powerful bug repellent, but it can also cause harmful effects to your health. Learn which plant-based alternatives are most effective at keeping you safe without chemicals.
Organic Gardening 101
What’s better than feasting on fresh fruit and vegetables handpicked right from your very own garden? The easiest way to enjoy your growing experiences and support a sustainable planet at the same time is to grow organically.
Beyond T-Shirts: 8 Ways to Use Organic Cotton Products in Your Home and Life
Cotton really is the “fabric of our lives.” But because it’s also one of the most pesticide-laden crops in the world, more consumers are choosing the organic version of this textile we love so much.
Eco-Friendly Secrets to Removing 15 Common Stains
But by understanding the chemistry of a few stain-removing materials, such as vinegar, baking soda, and simple digestive enzymes, you can solve most stain problems.
The Best Eco-Friendly Ways to Get Clothes Really Clean
Doing laundry has a significant environmental impact. If we all choose environmentally safe laundry products, the positive impact will be enormous and many of us will be far more comfortable!
The Green Appliance Guide: How to Create a More Efficient Kitchen
An eco-conscious kitchen starts with good appliances—and energy-efficient practices in your cooking and cleanup.
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.
Goo-Goo, Ga-Ga, Green!
As the mom of a four-month-old, I’ve done a lot of legwork to outfit our baby room in green. Here are some of the top things you can do to help make your nursery, or child’s room, greener.
Making an Old Home Green
Few of us have the resources to build a more energy-efficient house from the ground up. So, I set out to make my home as environmentally sound as I could in every aspect.
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.
How Eco Is Organic Cotton? The Facts on 7 Questions
Arguably the most popular sustainable fabric available, organic cotton is grown without pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. But is it truly the better choice?
Who’s Your Mama? Gift Guide
Your mom's the best! The Who's Your Mama Gift Guide has just what she needs to keep going. Are you a mom? Working hard to balance it all? Treat yourself! You know you deserve it.
10 Ways to Deal with Dust Mites and Get Real Allergy Relief
Sneezing and wheezing? Chances are, dust mites are one source of your suffering. To minimize dust mites, make these simple changes in your daily living and cleaning routines.
Go Green, Get Rich: How to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying
David Bach, author of Go Green, Get Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying, answers the question of how to get rich by going green.
How to Get Green Energy for Your Home and Save Money
Tips on how to shrink your footprint and support renewable energy development by buying green power, whether you’re ready to go solar or just dipping your toe in. From the new book Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach.
How Fair Trade Turned Life Around for a Family in India
A story of one woman artisan who's among the extraordinary survivors across Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and India, where livable wages from fair trade work offer a way out of the cycle of poverty.
Detox Your Home: Best 5 First Steps
Green-cleaning queen Annie Bond says these five steps should be your first to detox your home and help avoid the suspected dangers of years of ‘normal’ exposure to household chemicals.
QUIZ: How eco-jolly are you?
Are you an eco-angel? A green grinch? Take our quiz and rate your eco-holiday savvy.
Healthy Holiday Party Food: 10 Tips + 3 Recipes
You don’t have to be a nutritional saint during the holidays. Sneaky substitution tips and delicious-yet-virtuous recipes from chef and healthy eating coach Michele Morris make a big difference with just a few small changes.
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.
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."
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.
Are plastic water bottles a health hazard?
Is it true that refilling and reusing some types of plastic bottles can cause health problems? Straight talk about the research on how unsafe single-use plastic bottles are, and how to avoid the dangers.
