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Have you ever thought about your sex life’s carbon footprint? Probably not. Yet soy candles, bamboo bed sheets and hemp-silk negligees are giving a new—and much more flattering—meaning to being green in bed. From flirting to post-coital cuddling, not to mention the other fun stuff in between, there are many ways to please both your partner and the Earth. Here are a few of EcoHearth's favorite green sex tips and seduction secrets that might surprise even Cupid. Read on…

Are you likely to be one of the only environmentalists at the dinner table during the holidays? There's no reason to worry—use this handy guide to keep your crazy uncle from scoring any points and to help your confused cousin make better green choices. You'll find ready responses to all the most predictable dinner-table arguments. Who knows, you might even make a few converts! Read on…

Is the excessive waste and pollution caused by the manufacture, packaging and shipment of extravagant gifts that people don’t want or need making you feel like foregoing the purchase of presents this Christmas? If so, that's no reason to become a Scrooge. Instead, why not just try to be more eco-conscious in selecting your gifts? Read on…

Their names and faces most likely won’t show up on television shows, like John Walsh’s “America’s Most Wanted” program. They’re not going to be hanging on Post Office walls, like those on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Nevertheless, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing its best to get the word out. To this end, it has set up a website to publicize its list of the country's most-wanted environmental fugitives.

Among the 23 men on the EPA list is Mahmoud Almhchie, a 49-year-old Syrian charged in California with smuggling more than a hundred 30-pound cylinders of “ozone depleting contraband.” He fled the US to avoid prosecution and is believed to be back in Syria. Read on…

A few thousand years ago, man discovered how to store surplus supplies of food and how to transport water, leaving him free to move from the farm to the city (long story short, of course). Since then, two opposing schools of thought have remained at loggerheads in community development circles: urban verus non-urban living.

This debate on the merits of these lifestyles has been generally characterized by personal preferences, such as access to trade, culture, space and nature. Today, new considerations for environmental sustainability and the urgency associated with global climate change suggest that where one lives is also a moral decision—one that will ultimately affect the ability for current and future generations to sustain themselves with adequate, clean resources. Read on…