It is difficult to find anything truly sustainable. Chicken may be certified organic but when the entire lifecycle of production is taken into account the sustainability goes out the window. The organic feed is shipped thousands of miles, the animals are raised in confinement warehouses by an agricultural conglomerate and sold in a big box store. This process does not support local producers, is not healthy for the chickens or the workers and puts small farmers and retail outlets out...

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Are you curious about who is putting out greener electronics and who is failing miserably? Luckily, Greenpeace has just released version 12 of their “Guide to Greener...

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“If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention”… says a description of the book “Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America” by Giles Slade. In an interview with Slade at...

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