Conscious Consumption

Please, please tell us we can replace exercise with cheese.

In Vietnam, more than 20 million tons of the straw are burned through four months of the year. Now a homegrown startup is tackling the issue by giving rice farmers an economic ince...

[caption id="attachment_35573" align="alignright" width="390"] British furniture maker Gavin Munro stands with a lamp he grew.[/caption]

He’s a regular Paul Goatguin. (Some other news organization already used “Van Goat.”)

For Americans, collagen tends to mean one thing: an injectable substance used to make our most famous stars look even better. But in Japan, collagen isn't injected - it's consumed ...

See this? Get a good look. Because soon it’ll be different. Or similar, but with different chemicals. I don’t know.

Many of the ingredients in popular dishes would become scarce or totally unavailable without pollinators like bees, hummingbirds and hawk moths. Pollinators are responsible for one in three bites of food people take, and with the threats these small flying friends face on a daily basis, many species are in danger.

Forty-five years ago today, millions of Americans demonstrated in the streets, began discussing environmental issues, and started trying to tackle a problem that hadn’t even been on most folks’ radars at the time – and certainly wasn’t the hot-button political issue it is today.

How to Encourage Good Hygiene in Goats: Hoof, udder and intestinal health form the holy trinity of goat hygiene.