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Reinventing Fire: A Solution to "Peak Everything"

We've all heard about peak oil -- the point at which petroleum production hits its all-time high and then declines forever after -- but over at Bloomberg News, they spent last week fretting about Peak Everything: a civilization running out of essentials from energy to chocolate. They've...

Why We Speak for the Trees

At Seventh Generation, providing consumers with better paper products has been a core part of our business for almost 25 years. This commitment comes from a deeply held belief that precious, old-growth forests should never be cut down and turned into products we use to blow our noses or wipe spills...

How to Eat Like It Matters

Last week, my wife and I went to the supermarket to pick up a few things. It was hardly what we call "a big shopping." But the $200+ bill sure made it seem like it was, even though all we'd really picked up were a few staples missing from our pantry. It literally brought home some...

We Know What's For Dinner But Not What's On Our Plates...

...and the odds are good that whatever's there has been genetically altered because genetically engineered (GE) organisms are all over our food supply. Yet you wouldn't know it from reading food labels because that information is missing in action. This needs to change, and here's what...

Overstuffed

Life is filled with stuff. Yet we've all become aware that having a ton of stuff isn't necessarily the best thing where certain essentials are concerned, like, say, the future of life on Earth. The world is a bit overstuffed as things turn out, and some think the era of "peak stuff...