12 Sets of Sumptuous Sustainable Sheets
Conventional cotton is the most pesticide-intensive crop out there, so slip into these sustainable options instead.
Designer DIY Idea: Swinging Bed Made With a Recycled Trampoline
A lovely lounger made from reused trampoline parts.
How to Buy an Eco Friendly Mattress
Buying a mattress free of harmful chemicals and gentle on the environment is no easy task. A mattress expert weighs in.
Wretched Excess Comes To The Bedroom
Beds designed to be earthquake proof and that put you inside an aquarium
10 clever house cleaning hacks
Keep these tricks in your back pocket to make a tough job a tiny bit easier.
Clutterfree app offers a customized plan for decluttering your home
Created by minimalism expert Joshua Becker, it relies on the user's description of their own home, not a general house.
In praise of maximalism
All the stuff I once viewed as clutter has become a precious resource for my socially-isolated family.
Don't let this pandemic ruin the fight against single-use plastics
Listen to scientists, not industry lobbyists, and just keep cleaning.
Laundry in a time of COVID-19
Amid all the confusion, here's some solid advice on how to keep your clothes clean and free from contamination.
7 decluttering projects for when you're stuck at home
Now's the time to tackle jobs you've been thinking about for months.
What is castile soap? Uses and benefits
It's the most versatile household cleaning product you can buy.
How to declutter children's artwork
It's painful but necessary if you want to maintain an organized home.
What's better, dishwasher or sink?
Yet another study weighs in on the most efficient way to clean dirty dishes.
8 things NOT to clean with vinegar
Vinegar is a wonder ingredient for household cleaning – but it's not a perfect match for every job.
How to keep your fridge clean and organized
Save time, money, and food by taking a structured approach.
The best DIY baking soda cleaner for tough kitchen messes
For everything from stained sinks and burnt pots to baked-on grime, this simple 3-ingredient formula is eco-friendly, zero-waste, and actually works.
My 3 rules for staying on top of dirty dishes
Otherwise, they proliferate to the point of making me crazy.
I tried Swedish dishcloths and they are amazing
Durable yet biodegradable, these special dishcloths can replace paper towels, sponges, dish towels, microfiber cloths, and chamois.
Fill your home with random stuff from Marie Kondo's new store
Forget decluttering. KonMari is now all about re-cluttering.
Go plastic-free for Global Handwashing Day
If you're not into bar soap, here's an innovative option for liquid hand soap.
What's in your dust bunnies?
Enough toxic stuff that you should get out your vacuum cleaner.
5 frugal life skills I want to pass on to my kids
These are the daily habits I've refined over the years and hope to see them doing someday.
Stella McCartney on why washing clothes is overrated
The fashion designer says she doesn't "just chuck stuff into a washing machine because it's been worn."
The most magical salt water swimming hole is in Samoa
Samoa's To Sua Ocean Trench is a natural salt water swimming hole that looks too beautiful to be real.
Calling veggie substitutes "meat" is now illegal in Missouri
Guess which industry pushed that one through?
Sonic's part-mushroom burger now available nationwide
Blending ground beef with mushrooms cuts both calories and carbon emissions. Oh, and lots of folks say it tastes better too.
Grass-fed beef is threatened by nutritionally-deficient grass
"Since the mid-90s, levels of crude protein in the plants, which cattle need to grow, have dropped by nearly 20 percent."
Study says grass-fed beef isn't better for the planet
Under perfect circumstances, grazing cattle do sequester carbon, but most of the time that's not the case.
Try the 'Better Burger Challenge' this summer
Adding vegetables or legumes to ground beef makes a burger that's tastier, healthier, and less environmentally damaging.
Danish Council on Ethics releases its report on beef as a 'climate damaging food'
The report argues why a beef tax would be an effective step toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions and why we should all be paying more for climate-damaging foods.
If cows could fly: What's in United Airlines' biofuel?
It turns out that it's probably beef fat.
I ate how many trees for breakfast?
What nutrition labels do, and do not, tell us about what goes into our food
American dietary guidelines dump environmental concerns
Recommendations to eat less meat for environmental reasons won’t be included in the final 2015 dietary guidelines.
Imagine meatless Monday at the school cafeteria
Is the dream of sustainable agriculture a nightmare for the beef industry?
How many showers would you skip to help the beef industry?
Would you go stinky for steak? By skipping 26 showers for every 4 oz hamburger you eat, you can offset the water used to produce it.
Meatonomics explores the bizarre economic forces that drive meat & dairy production
According to the research of author David Simon, the externalized cost of our animal food system totals about $414 billion per year, which is carried by all of us.
Meat and dairy are heating up the planet, but nobody seems to care
Despite the fact that livestock production contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector, there is an appalling unwillingness to change eating habits in order to make a difference.
McDonald's promises transparency about its food, if only customers will come back
The company has launched a few efforts to reclaim marketshare, from promoting regional specialties to answering questions about food production. Too bad the promotional videos aren't convincing and fail to address the whole issue.
Scientists identify the most environmentally harmful animal product in the American diet
A new paper compares eggs, dairy, poultry, beef and pork to determine which has the biggest environmental impact.
More of us need to become "weekday vegetarians"
A new study shows that if we want to stop climate change, meat and dairy are off the table -- at least in the quantities we currently consume.
Does anyone really know which diet is best for the environment?
The meat vs. veggies debate is a lot more complex than it seems at first glance.
5 foods you shouldn't eat if you care about the environment
You've heard them all before, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded of why these foods are destructive to our planet.
Vegetables are not "elitist"
But assuming that lower-income citizens are content to eat cheeseburgers definitely is.
McDonalds to begin buying "sustainable beef" in 2016
A new initiative from the fast food giant aims to rethink the global meat industry. But is that even possible?
Moving Up the Food Chain
In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the food chain.
Pink slime's school lunch comeback hits 7 states
Known as "lean finely textured beef," the highly processed meat has been dropped from by many fast food chains, but are still one the menu at public schools.
Organic, lab-grown hamburgers – only $330,000
Muscle-meat grown in a laboratory is no longer in the realm of science fiction, except for the price of an 'all-beef' patty.
Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production.
How do they find horse meat in hamburger?
A relatively new test detected horse meat in European hamburger. We wonder: how do they test this? Could it happen in America? What happens to all the recalled food?