Green Living

What's really in your shampoo What's really in your shampoo

Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair. But the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head
  • Ask Pablo

    Let's talk freight: Is it better to ship by train, truck or plane?
  • Burger and fries to go

    How to convert a car to run on leftover vegetable oil from your local greasy spoon.
  • The green philosophy of Dennis Kucinich

    The Democratic candidate calls for a new energy paradigm. But are Americans ready to be "in harmony with nature"?
  • Huckabee: God wants us to fight global warming

    The Republican presidential candidate believes it's our biblical duty to stop climate change.
  • Ask Pablo

    Is my big new flat-screen TV killing the planet?
  • Ask Pablo

    The presidential candidates keep talking about the evils of China's new coal plants and "clean coal technology" as a savior. What's the real story?
  • Ask Pablo

    How can I help save the bees?
  • Ask Pablo

    I confess: I am addicted to the latest tech gadgets. Can I be green too?
  • Ask Pablo

    I've heard reading online uses more energy than printing documents. Can that be true?
  • Busting the electric car myth

    No, electric cars don't suck down the same amount of energy as gas guzzlers do.
  • Ask Pablo

    After the Grim Reaper arrives, what's the greenest way to dispose of our bodies?
  • Bamboo shoots and trees

    Bamboo is a wise alternative to wood products. But there are still a few toxic snakes in the grass.
  • Tancredo pushes for more nuclear energy R&D

    The presidential hopeful says alternative energies aren't just good for the environment -- they're good for America.
  • John McCain's climate-change forecast

    Right or wrong, we have to act, because the risk of not curbing greenhouse-gas emissions is too great.
  • Urban renewal, the wireless way

    Thanks to Wi-Fi networks, cellphones and global positioning locators, there's a new sense of place in the city.
  • Great big green monster mansions

    Environmentally correct housing has never been more popular. But even the most eco-friendly home may do more harm than good when it is super-sized.
  • Saving the world by building a better light bulb

    Edison's 19th century invention still burns on, a wasteful contributor to global warming. There's got to be a better way.
  • The wolf in all of us

    The return of the gray wolf to the American West isn't just a triumph for conservationists. It's a victory over the darkness in our own human nature.
  • You gotta fight for your right to go solar

    Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman felt guilty about the fossil fuels their planes were consuming. So they decided to build a huge solar power system in their backyard. The local power utility was not amused.

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