The Other Whaling Industry ( Read more... )

whole foods is eliminating all plastic bags this year!! i have to say, my respect for them just shot up. :D

x-posted to vegetarian and green_daily

It currently takes between 43,000 to 63,000 square feet to feed a meat eating American for one year, 12,000 to 16,000 sqft to feed a Vegetarian and only 6,000 sqft to feed a Vegan. By 2015 there will only be 9,000 sqft of farmable land per person on the planet. Either we all must adopt a vegan diet or more than 2/3 of the human population will die ( Read more... )

A solution for the world's energy crisis may come in the form of a pig ( Read more... )

Alternet.com, a popular news web site with 1.7 million viewers monthly, has posted an informative article about why people concerned about the environment should be vegetarian ( Read more... )

i got two emails recently that might be of interest to the community---

One a petition for the creation of plug-in hybrid cars:
http://www.pluginpartners.com.

and one from Sephora about eco-beauty. It includes:

Stella McCartney's CARE line, which is preservative and chemical-free, ( Read more... )

Kudos to Rolling Stone for printing what seems like (have not had a chance to read it yet) a pretty indepth article on the environmental impacts of pig farming.

It's in the new issue - Snoop Dogg's on the cover.

Here was a message from someone in my local veg*n group ( Read more... )

Cod and oysters: tastes our grandchildren may not savour
James Randerson, science correspondent ( Read more... )

Intelligent, emotional, ingenious: the amazing truth about whales and dolphins
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor ( Read more... )