http://planetgreen.discovery.com RSS Feed for a Tag http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/determine-carbon-footprint.html The Wa$ted Ecological Footprint Calculator will let you calculate how all your behaviors add up to your total carbon footprint. How many planets would be required to support the world's population if everyone lived an equivalent lifestyle? The Wa$ted Ecological Footprint Calculator will let you calculate how all your behaviors add up to your total carbon footprint. How many planets would be required to support the world's population if everyone lived an equivalent lifestyle? Carbon Footprint Ecological Footprint Green Community Local Food Organic Vegan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:00 GMT Team Planet Green http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/determine-carbon-footprint.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/silverstone-trim-kind-diet.html Actress, activist, conservationist Alicia Silverstone has long depended on a plant-based diet to maintain her trim and healthy body. And though she eats meat and dairy-free, she feel anything but deprived. In fact, she believes that this type of diet can help you lose weight with ease, clears skin, ups energy, and makes digestion a breeze, and she tells us all about it in her new recipe-filled book "The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet"(Rodale 2009). We talked with Alicia about her new book, her philosophy on life, food and how a "Kind Diet" is not only good for the body, but the planet too. Actress, activist, conservationist Alicia Silverstone has long depended on a plant-based diet to maintain her trim and healthy body. And though she eats meat and dairy-free, she feel anything but deprived. In fact, she believes that this type of diet can help you lose weight with ease, clears skin, ups energy, and makes digestion a breeze, and she tells us all about it in her new recipe-filled book "The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet"(Rodale 2009). We talked with Alicia about her new book, her philosophy on life, food and how a "Kind Diet" is not only good for the body, but the planet too. Animals Ecological Footprint Health Vegan Vegetarian Weight Loss Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT Laurel House http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/silverstone-trim-kind-diet.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/planet-100/whales-saved-japanese-recession.html Today's Planet 100 looks at Whales Saved by Japanese Recession, Giant Disco Ball in Space, and Feeding the Planet. Today's Planet 100 looks at Whales Saved by Japanese Recession, Giant Disco Ball in Space, and Feeding the Planet. Animals Climate Change Ecological Footprint Water Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:26:00 GMT Team Planet Green http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/planet-100/whales-saved-japanese-recession.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/green-weddings/wedding-planning-class-save.html It might not feel like wedding season right now, but that's only because most people are in the planning stages, making it prime time for studying up on how to make a wedding green. It might not feel like wedding season right now, but that's only because most people are in the planning stages, making it prime time for studying up on how to make a wedding green. Ecological Footprint Green Your Wedding Schools Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:30:00 GMT Jaymi Heimbuch http://planetgreen.discovery.com/feature/green-weddings/wedding-planning-class-save.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/surprising-places-find-petroleum.html While politicians and automakers wrangle over how to deal with our transportation-heavy addiction to fossil fuels, we have to face up to the ubiquity of oil in every other facet of life as well. From aspirin to chewing gum, these are just 10 of the most surprising places to find oil. While politicians and automakers wrangle over how to deal with our transportation-heavy addiction to fossil fuels, we have to face up to the ubiquity of oil in every other facet of life as well. From aspirin to chewing gum, these are just 10 of the most surprising places to find oil. Buy Nothing Carbon Footprint Consumption Ecological Footprint Green Community Plastic Take Action Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:30:00 GMT Rachel Cernansky http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/surprising-places-find-petroleum.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/join-oil-detox-challenge.html From plastic bags to toothpaste to lipstick, oil is everywhere in our lives. Watch Recipes For Disaster, and join the oil detox challenge. Stop the unsustainable madness. From plastic bags to toothpaste to lipstick, oil is everywhere in our lives. Watch Recipes For Disaster, and join the oil detox challenge. Stop the unsustainable madness. Carbon Footprint Ecological Footprint Green Community Take Action Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT Rachel Cernansky http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/join-oil-detox-challenge.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/living-with-ed/episode-game.html Rachelle discovers that the competition for Greenest Guy on the Block might reach beyond even green warriors Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Nye the Science Guy. How has the new guy made his home so green? Rachelle discovers that the competition for Greenest Guy on the Block might reach beyond even green warriors Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Nye the Science Guy. How has the new guy made his home so green? Ecological Footprint Episode Guides Television Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT Team Planet Green http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/living-with-ed/episode-game.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/devastating-flood-future.html Flood plains can change rapidly with construction and modern improvements. Even if you don't think you live in a flood plain it is worth considering what you would do if a flood occurred and ways to make your property more resistant to flood damage. Flood plains can change rapidly with construction and modern improvements. Even if you don't think you live in a flood plain it is worth considering what you would do if a flood occurred and ways to make your property more resistant to flood damage. Ecological Footprint Take Action Water Conservation Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT Marye Audet http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/devastating-flood-future.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/recyclable-recycling-greenwashing-word.html "Recyclable" does nothing to help the environment, and companies that advertise it does should not get points for being green. Of course you'll recycle, but environmental change needs to happen farther up the production lines, for example, by using materials that are recycled, not just recyclable. "Recyclable" does nothing to help the environment, and companies that advertise it does should not get points for being green. Of course you'll recycle, but environmental change needs to happen farther up the production lines, for example, by using materials that are recycled, not just recyclable. Ecological Footprint Green Home Plastic Recycling Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:00 GMT Rachel Cernansky http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/recyclable-recycling-greenwashing-word.html http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/nature-price-tag.html Is it really possible to assign a dollar value to nature? It can't be easy to quantify the contributions that ecosystems and wildlife make to our economy, but more and more people are trying... hopefully that means more and more people are listening to the messages of conservationists. Is it really possible to assign a dollar value to nature? It can't be easy to quantify the contributions that ecosystems and wildlife make to our economy, but more and more people are trying... hopefully that means more and more people are listening to the messages of conservationists. Ecological Footprint Ecotourism Endangered Species Honey Nature Outdoors Water Conservation Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:30:00 GMT Rachel Cernansky http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/nature-price-tag.html