The Pygmy people of Africa are probably the people most connected to nature in the entire world. They live in the rainforests, hunting and gathering their food. They travel through the forests, …

As civil war raged on in the Congo, there was nothing protecting the unique, thriving Congolese forests – except for one man. Corneille Ewango, a botanist, had lived on the Okapi Reserve for …

I just learned about this musician, Emmanuel Jal. He is INCREDIBLE. What makes him incredible, however, is not necessarily his music, but what he is doing with that music. He is …

Adam Grosser is a genius. With all of the people (1.6 billion, in fact) that do not have access to electricity, disease is a HUGE problem – first of all, because they cannot refrigerate …

The Environmental Working Group came out with a study last year saying that teenage girls use an average of 17 beauty and body products a day – 50% more than the average adult woman. Most …

Dried flower wreaths are a great project and decoration for the late summer-early fall. We got the idea about 10 years ago at our local farmers’ market – there was a vender selling …

This is my all time favorite dessert on a hot summer day. Plus, it is a complete crowd pleaser. I’ve adapted the recipe from Smoothies: 50 Recipes for High-Energy Refreshment. I literally …

What do I advise to those of you who are just learning how to be green and need an easy way to tell what is OK and what is not? I advise you …

The other day, I read in the local newspaper that GE, which had been dredging the Hudson River to clean it after having dumped over 1 million pounds of PCBs into the river, was just …

Yesterday, my parents and I went into the city to see Hair (which won the 2009 Tony for best revival of a musical). Um – WOW. I’m obsessed. We realized right …