Green business picks

Within every crisis is the opportunity for growth, and the current economic crisis offers a chance to build our local economy after decades of building credit bubble economics.

If there is one culprit in the household that sucks up an enormous amount of energy and has the potential to be a blight on the environment, it's the laundry room.

It's time to move from thinking green to acting green. What steps can you make in your home to minimize your very own carbon foot print, reduce fossil fuel use, lower your heating costs, and even enhance your home decor? A new high-performance wood stove may just...

A modifiable factor in heart attacks and stroke, high blood pressure is a great candidate for natural products intervention, as many nutrients and herbs have been studied for management of pre-hypertension and hypertension.

Kombucha is a fermented beverage made of tea and bacteria cultures. For the last 2,000 years in Asia, families drank kombucha for its purported medicinal qualities. The special yeast and bacteria cultures are usually circulated person-to-person, although now mixtures...

How did this come about? We have seen a major leap in farm productivity in the last 50 years with food production doubling and even tripling in the case of cereal grains. This amazing leap did not come from new farms or farmlands since we have lost more than half...

Recently Alice Waters, a strong advocate of the "Slow Food" movement, was featured on 60 Minutes talking about her efforts to promote and make available in season, pesticide free foods to America.