Whether you are a vegan yourself and looking for some good vegan Thanksgiving meals or are not a vegan but are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner at your house that some vegan friends or family will attend, I hope this little…
McDonald’s Happy Meal Ban Goes Through in San Francisco!
We’ve been covering the progress of the proposal to ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals (e.g. McDonald’s Happy Meals) in San Francisco for awhile now (see: McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to be Banned in San Francisco? and Update on…
Rwanda Awarded Green Globe Award for Environmental Conservation
When most people visit Rwanda they are very surprised to learn about the country’s focus on the environment. However, Rwanda’s efforts to maintain and improve the earth is a focus of everyone in the country, including President Kagame. From outlawing…
Greenpeace UK’s Rainbow Warriors [VIDEO]
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Great video of the Rainbow Warrior. And the request from the Greenpeace UK YouTube page: She’s confronted environmental crime for 21 years. She has been shot at, rammed and impounded while defending our world. But now she’s worn out, struggling…
Put Medical Waste in the Mail – Not in Your Landfill
This guest post comes to us from David P. Tusa, CEO and President of Sharps Compliance Corp. (Nasdaq: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the healthcare facility setting.…
Update on San Francisco Happy Meal Toy Ban
Last week, I wrote about the San Francisco Healthy Meals Incentive ordinance, which would ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals (i.e. in Happy Meals). As I wrote previously, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use…
Deforestation Rates in Brazilian Amazon Dropped 47% in August
Data released publicly last Friday indicates that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon were 47% lower in August of 2010 compared to August of 2009. Nice to hear that. This information was released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research…
Bill Clinton (Almost) Vegan: Why & the Health Benefits [VIDEOS]
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I’ve written on a number of famous vegetarian and vegan celebrities in the past, from Orlando Bloom to Henry Ford to Carl Lewis to Mike Tyson. As you’ve probably heard, Bill Clinton is the latest to become (almost) vegan. Clinton has…
Plastic Bag Tax in D.C. Stimulating Big Change
Only nine months after Washington, DC implemented a 5-cent plastic bag tax, plastic bag use has dropped about 60%! I think that is a surprisingly strong result. “I am somewhat surprised by the extent to which people changed their behavior,”…
3 Green Hostels in Europe
Yesterday, we had a good post on 3 green hostels in the Americas. As I promised, here is one on green hostels in Europe as well. I have lived in Europe, in total, for about 2 and a half years…