How to Be a Ninja Label Reader

Today, the average American comes into contact with over 120 chemicals every day through personal care products, cleaning products and the environment. Yet our government doesn’t require pre-market safety testing except for what the manufacturer provides. This information is often blatantly biased and has resulted in virtually no independent oversight.
Meanwhile, independent laboratories have disclosed serious [...]

Boomers Last Bounce

There’s every indication that the 30 something generation will not have the opportunities, the prosperity, or the unstoppable confidence and optimism that the Boomers enjoyed. As they cross the threshold of 60, they may reluctantly downshift a notch, but they haven’t stopped their epic levels of consumption. It’s just shifted to consumption of health care, [...]

10 Ways to Go Green Today

For many of us, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was a wake up call that was loud and clear. Even more compelling (and scary) is Leonardo DiCaprio’s film “The Eleventh Hour”.  As the news keeps coming in, my guess is we’re actually in the last ten minutes if we’re going to stop the runaway devastation [...]