Farms, freeways and front yards are flooding underground aquifers with dangerous toxins, slowly poisoning many communities’ water supplies. But how can this happen?

San Francisco starts mandatory composting and becomes first city in the nation to require people to properly dispose of their organic garbage waste.

One way to research products with safer ingredients is to check out GoodGuide.com. The site’s health information can help you determine what’s in a produc and whether the ingredients pose any potential health hazards. It also includes information on products’ environmental and social impact.

On a group phone called last night organized by Power Shift, John Kerry talked about the challenges of getting the Kerry-Boxer climate bill through the Senate. Several dems, led by Jeff Bigaman in New Mexico, are trying to split apart the bill making it all but worthless. People need to call and email their senators [...]

Apple, Nike, PG&E, Toyota and other behemoths have all left the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but corporate pranksters, The Yes Men, decided to join that climate skeptic organization just long enough to confuse the heck out of  Fox News this week. Watch the video >>

Learn about Monsanto wanting to control the world’s food supply through genetic engineering, the information in this movie is both horrifying and amazing! To me, oddly echoing aspects of Soylent Green…

Three simple ways for you to help save forests…

Labeling food “natural” only applies to how it is processed. So animals raised in horrific conditions on factory farms can be called ‘natural’. The US Department of Agriculture have opened up a public comment period on these labels, and what they mean. So take a minute right now, and tell them that natural means natural, and our food needs to be properly labeled at http://www.environmental-action.org/USDA-comment?id4=ES

SIGG announced that their aluminum water bottles – you know, the ones that everyone bought in order to avoid BPA — actually contained BPA. TODAY’S NEWS: Gaiam’s aluminum water bottles — the ones that were previously labeled “BPA-free,” actually leach BPA at 20 times the levels that SIGG bottles did.

A huge treehug to Apple, PG&E, PNM (New Mexico’s largest provider of electricity) and others by resigning their memberships in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because they disagree with the chamber’s stance on climate change.