Tag: Featured Living
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10 Ways to Use Less Plastic Every Day
Plastic waste has become a pandemic—on land as well as in the world’s oceans. What can just one person do about such a global problem? Take these simple steps, courtesy of World Ocean Observatory: 1. Avoid buying items packaged in plastic. Look for produce and other items that aren’t over-packaged. Buy food in glass jars rather than…
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New Label Tells Consumers if Meat is Free of Growth-Enhancing Drugs
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) certification program for livestock producers would permit them to market their products with a special label saying the meat contains no drugs called beta agonists—which some estimates say are fed to up to nearly 80 percent of U.S.-raised livestock. Beta agonists are feed additives used to increase muscle mass and…
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Gaining Ground on Fight to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
“The ground we gained in Washington, in the form of votes, is nothing compared with the ground—in the form of soil and farms and fields—we plan to take back from Monsanto in the months and years ahead. Watch out, Monsanto. We have plans. And those plans include taking back our seeds, our food, our farms,…
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Small-Scale Farmers and Organic Produce Could Disappear Under Proposed FDA Rules
Small-scale farmers, such as those who sell at the local farmers market or through a community-supported agriculture (CSA) say the supply of organic, local produce will be greatly reduced and many small farms will go out of business if the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) goes into effect as currently written. FSMA was signed into law in…
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Lower Your Carbon Footprint, Stay at Energy Star Certified Hotels
Traveling and looking for an environmentally friendly place to stay? Check out Energy Star certified hotels. The Energy Star award, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy, means a commercial buildings actively measures and tracks its energy use and has obtained a certain score in an evaluation by a licensed…