Every year, Sierra Magazine comes out with a much anticipated list of the year’s greenest colleges - a list that is becoming quite competitive, indeed. I’ve been on the lookout for it this …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Life in college seems simply impossible without a mini-fridge. It holds the wonders of caffeine and snacks for that late-night study session, the breakfast foods for that early morning class, and the clean water …

After a stressful, kind of terrible freshman year, I wanted to do everything I could to create a space that emanated peace, well-being, and compassion. So, sophomore year, I hung prayer flags over …

So, normally, going back to college means, “Oh, dear. How on EARTH am I going to fit all of my stuff into ONE CAR?!” But not this year! I’m going abroad and then …

I was flipping through my high school year book and saw the quote I put under my graduation picture. At the time, I was not involved in anything “green,” but I think the choice …

So, I just learned about the Pacific “trash vortex,” also called the “garbage patch” and the Pacific’s “plastic soup.” Basically, it’s a mass of plastics and other trash floating in the Pacific just below …