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  • A review of six green laundry detergents

    Let’s get down and dirty … about your laundry habits. You may think you’re in the clear, but every time you use your conventional, chemical-filled detergent, you could be affecting your health — as well as the health of waterways downstream. That doesn’t sound so fresh (and so clean, clean), so I decided to seek […]

  • From Bottle to Bikini

    Cork tease Attention oenophiles: Korks 4 Kids wants your cork. Big corks, little corks — size doesn’t matter. Your cork will go places you never imagined, until you get that all-over warm feeling that you get from … helping children. Why, what were you thinking? Photo: iStockphoto On our soapbox A Brit film fest asking […]

  • Grist puts a green eye to sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll

    Photo: iStockphoto “Sex and drugs and rock and roll are very good indeed.” — Ian Dury Green may be the flavor of the week, the word du jour, the go-to adjective for everyone from ad execs to activists — but between you and me, researching all the do’s and don’ts of eco-sainthood can get a […]

  • Depressing ocean news buoyed by Pam Anderson’s striptease

    Walking into the office this morning, I saw this headline in bold letters on the front of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “Scientists fear ‘tipping point’ in Pacific Ocean.” Then, a news search told me this: “As vast as the oceans are, almost no waters remain untouched by human activities.” It’s enough to make me wanna strangle […]