How & Why to Get (or Create) a Green Job: Q&A with Van Jones
Van Jones' 'New Deal' could get America back to work while weaning us off oil and coal. We asked him four questions about how you can put his ideas to work for you, your business or a friend who needs a new line of work.
Squash Is Superfood! Get Yours with 4 Yummy Recipes
It's not a favorite vegetable of many Americans today, but winter squash is delicious when you have a great recipe -- plus it's super-nutritious and inexpensive. These 4 favorite recipes using pumpkin and acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash may change your mind about these gourds.
Jesus, the Novel: Chapter 1 + Q&A with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra captures Jesus' untold transformation during the lost years from teenage rebel to leader of men, and ultimately to the Son of God. Read Chapter 1 of 'Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment' and an interview with Chopra about his portrayal of Jesus as never before.
Functional Fitness 101: Is a Workout-Therapy Hybrid What You Need?
Ever thought about hiring a personal trainer but worried you’d be too inflexible or in too much pain to make it worthwhile? Even if you're in great shape, you may feel pain doing everyday tasks, whether from injury, arthritis or overtraining. Functional fitness may help.
Feeling SAD? A Doctor's Top 4 Remedies for Winter Blues
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD also known as “winter blues,” is very common and very treatable. Four therapies to try plus tips on several more that can help with symptoms of SAD, from a psychiatrist and people who experience this condition every winter.
6 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Dinner
You don’t have to go cold tofurkey to green your Thanksgiving meal. Try these six ways keep Thanksgiving traditions while putting eco-friendly twists on your feast, starting with slashing the carbon footprint of your turkey dinner with all the fixin's.
Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas
The most brilliant ways to wrap your gifts, in merry and bright eco-friendly alternatives to single-use wrapping paper.
Veggie Thanksgiving Tips & Recipes
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be all about that big bird in the middle of your dinner table. This year, we’ll be making meatless options a bigger focus on our menu. But I will miss the wishbone!
5 Holiday Eco Decorating Tips
A guide to making any new additions to your holiday decor more eco-friendly. Five tips from an interior designer on how to choose more holiday decorations.
From Living on the Street to Earning a Living Wage: Fair Trade at Work in Hanoi
Phan had never dared to dream of the stability promised by fair trade job. But when he became an artisan in Hanoi's Kids & Stone workshop, life began to change. Read how he went from living on the street to earning a living wage.
5 Easy (and Cheap!) Ways to Detox Your Home
Amazingly simple and affordable ways to detox your home, recommended by experts in how to get pollutants and chemicals out of your living spaces — and keep them out. Why? The facts on how common household toxins affect human health may surprise you.
Sitting on a Ball Helps Kids Focus and Do Better In School
Get the details on a study, a school and parents of ADHD kids that found sitting on a ball improves focus and helps kids write more clearly. Ball chairs (and balls used as chairs) might be just what the doctor ordered to help fidgety children, especially those with sensory processing disorder or ADHD.
Study Shows Meditation Increases Compassion, Love and Forgiveness
Can a quality like love, forgiveness or compassion be measured in the brain? Scientists are finding that meditation and mindfulness practices can increase your capacity for positive qualities. A fascinating look at the neuroscience of meditation.
Buy Obama or Palin to Help Needy Kids
eBay auctions dolls in the likeness of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin; Corey Feldman releases an album with his band Truth Movement; Hayden Panettiere's whale tale; Daryl Hannah's dhlovelife vlog.
Gaiam Life Meditation Rooms
Step into a Gaiam Life Meditation Room for a few minutes to calm your senses and melt away stress. Escape your worries and experience imagery of some of the most relaxing and beautiful natural gifts on Earth, as you listen to soothing nature sounds and music.
7 Ways to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
You don't have to cut out all your favorite treats to make these seven simple food choices to reduce your climate change impact. From eating local and in season to eating less meat and packaged foods, this guide explains how and why to go on a low-carbon diet.
3 Techniques to Dissolve Stress Fast (No Yoga Required)
All stressed out with nowhere to do some yoga? Try these three simple stress-reducing techniques from The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide by yoga teacher and Ms. Mindbody columnist Kate Hanley. Get breathing techniques, fast stretches and mantra tips for anxiety-ridden family gatherings, stressful work situations and, well … anytime.
Are LED Lightbulbs Better than Compact Fluorescents?
Why LED lightbulbs are becoming more affordable and practical, how energy efficient they are compared to compact fluorescents (CFLs) and incandescent bulbs, and how to find the newer, brighter LED bulbs and lamps.
Ringo Starr: Save Paper, Stop Sending Me Fan Mail!
Ringo Starr calls for curbing fan mail to save trees and CO2; the first Brangelina home for Katrina victims is completed; Kevin Bacon launches sixdegrees.org,; Neve Campbell speaks out about tar sands exploitation.
3 Workouts to Balance (Not Fight) Your Shape: Pear, Apple, Chili Pepper!
Rather than focusing mainly on your trouble spot (thighs for pears, belly for apples, and then there’s the chili pepper …) Make the most of what Mother Nature gave you by training to even out your imbalances. Try one of these three seven-day workout plans customized to each body type.
5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jack-O-Lantern
It's easy to green your jack-o-lantern and reduce the environmental impact of Halloween fun. These five ways to go eco-friendly with your pumpkin include resources for finding organic pumpkins, recipes for pumpkin bread and pumpkin seeds, and donating or composting spent pumpkins.
Can You Use the Law of Attraction to Achieve Financial Success?
What do financially successful people know that others don't? 'Money and the Law of Attraction' authors Esther and Jerry Hicks say the secret lies in asking yourself different questions.
Celebrity Planet: Leo's Latest Pet Project? Voter Turnout
Leonardo DiCaprio talks about what may be his true legacy, and his latest pet project: getting out the vote to help ensure better environmental policies. Also: Paul McCartney's veggie gal pals, Liz Hurley's organic products line and Bette Midler's community garden.
Why Humidify, and Which Type of Humidifier Is Best?
Health experts weigh in on whether you need a cool mist or warm mist humidifier, plus how and why using a humidifier can help prevent and alleviate cold, allergy and sinus symptoms as well as dry skin and nose bleeds.
6 Best Ways to Support a Loved One Who Has Cancer
Three out of four families will see a family member diagnosed with cancer. Our list of the six most supportive things you can do for a cancer patient reflects the advice of cancer–center doctors, social workers, survivors and family members who were there for them.
I Spy Eco-Spin: 5 Best Ways to Avoid Getting Greenwashed
Environmental science experts outline the five best things you can do to protect yourself from greenwashing — untrue or exaggerated claims of eco-friendly and responsible product sourcing and manufacturing.
Celebrity Planet: Rachel McAdams Has Eco-OCD
Rachel McAdams loves to ride her bike, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds enjoy a green honeymoon, and more in this week's Celebrity Planet.
Kids’ Yoga: Get-Started Guide for Grade-Schoolers, Tweeners & Teens
Advice from kids' yoga teachers on how to get started with the right yoga program for your child. Includes yoga pose examples & benefits for kids at different ages & stages.
What's So Bad About Chemical Cleaning Products?
What exactly are the cancer-causing toxic ingredients in household cleaners? What are the dangers of using these products, and what are your alternatives, including store brands and homemade cleaning solutions?
5 Qs for Jessica Biel: Is She a Green Nerd?
In a time when eco-activism is practically a prerequisite for stardom, we asked Jessica Biel to reveal how green she really is in her everyday life, including the nerdiest things she does for the planet.
How Breast Cancer Patients Benefit from Pilates Therapy
How and why Pilates therapy is being used to support treatment and recovery for breast cancer patients, including exercise modifications and tips on getting started.
Celebrity Planet: Katherine Heigl's Fishy Situation
Katherine Heigl rescues a fish while on vacation, Brad and Angelina donate to human rights causes, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
6 Rules for Feeding Your Toddler
Mealtime can be quite a frustrating experience. The best advice I can give you, as a mother and a pediatrician, is that children rarely starve themselves. So relax and try to incorporate these 6 rules for feeding your toddler.
Solar Cooking Saves Trees and Does Global Good
Solar cookers are helping families in remote areas of the world cook without firewood — helping reduce deforestation and carbon emissions from wood fires while offering solutions to health and social problems.
How Solar Cookers Work + 3 Recipes for Backyard or Backwoods
A starter guide to solar cookers including how they work, types of sun cookers, how fast they cook food, and three recipes you can make in your backyard or the backwoods.
Green Your Wardrobe: 5 Fall Eco-Fashion Trends
Being fashionable while maintaining your eco-ideals is all a matter of knowing where to shop and what to buy. Check out our coverage of the top five sustainable fall fashion trends and where to find them.
5 Ways to Stay Motivated to Exercise Regularly
To be successful at a fitness routine, you have to employ a variety of tactics to keep yourself motivated and inspired. Here are some tips proven to help make a lifetime commitment to fitness a reality.
Celebrity Planet: Scarlett Johansson's a Celluva Environmentalist
Scarlett Johansson gives recycling some sex appeal, Michael Jackson is confused about organics, and more Hollywood green gossip in this week's Celebrity Planet.
Get a Life ... Coach
What exactly is a life coach, and how do you find a good one? A 101 guide to how a life coach could help you, where to shop for a life coach, what kind of training a good life coach has, and what fees and results to expect.
What Environmental Issues Will The Next President Face?
From climate change to offshore drilling, nuclear energy, toxic waste cleanup and more, this guide offers perspective on the challenging environmental issues that the next president will face.
