Tag: Featured Living
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Green Your Holidays by Supporting Independent Poultry Farmers
Chicken and turkey are among the most popular and versatile foods Americans eat, but they also bring health risks to your plate. Most factory-farmed poultry is raised with antibiotics—which leads to antibiotic resistance in humans. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to cut the budget for poultry inspections and allow big chicken companies to police themselves.…
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5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jewelry
Making sure your jewelry is green is a great step toward living an eco-friendly lifestyle. You don’t have to get rid of your old jewelry, but be mindful of new purchases. Here are five kinds of green jewelry, courtesy of greenbrideguide.com. 1. Recycled jewelry uses old materials to create something new and beautiful. This means…
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How Eating Meat Increases Demand for Soybeans and Threatens the Amazon
by Kristina Chew More and more of the world’s farmlands are being used to grow soybeans. It’s not to meet the needs of tofu, tempeh and miso lovers (though consumption of these has been on the rise) but of meat eaters. Since the 1960s, soybeans have been cultivated predominantly to produce soybean meal, one part of which can be mixed with…
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Wireless Carrier, Not Device, Determines Cell Phone Radiation
For those concerned about exposure to radiation from cell phones, the choice of a wireless carrier may be a more important decision than which device you use, says a new analysis by researchers at the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The studies indicate that users of similar mobile devices can be exposed to starkly different intensities of…
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Save Water and Money by Replacing Your Shower Head with a WaterSense Model
One simple and fairly inexpensive home improvement can reduce your household water use by thousands of gallons per year. All you have to do is replace one older, inefficient shower head with a new WaterSense-labeled model. [caption id="attachment_311803" align="alignnone" width="500"] Showering accounts for nearly 17 percent of residential indoor water use, or about 30 gallons…