Articles tagged “Animals”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

17 Plants that Will Kill Your Cat and Why Poinsettias Won't By Care2.com IN Home & Garden Dec 9 2009 Which plants are most toxic to cats? See the top 17 plants that cats should avoid and find out why poinsettas don't make the list. + READ MORE

Green Risk Management: Employ the Precautionary Principle By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Dec 7 2009 The Precautionary Principle is based on the premise that rather than requiring absolute proof of harm, we only need to suspect something will cause harm to ban it or restrict its use. + READ MORE

Jonathan Safran Foer on Factory Farming, Thanksgiving, and Birthday Cake (Interview) By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 2 2009 What matters is how animals are treated and how the environment is treated. If we can move toward a place where people are eating less meat--and approach dietary transformation through meals, rather than through lifestyle patterns, I wonder if it wouldn't be more effective. I'm not interested in perfection. I'm interested in working on these issues. + READ MORE

The Downside of Freerange Chickens By Sami Grover IN Home & Garden Dec 2 2009 Allowing your chickens to roam free makes it hard to complain when they end up as another creature's lunch. But it still hurts. That's why we are finally going to fence them in. + READ MORE

Is Your Brain Turning Into a Sponge? 8 Reasons to Remain Concerned About Mad Cow Disease By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Dec 2 2009 An invariably fatal disease wrought by man's own hubris, disseminated by an infectious agent impervious to all forms of neutralization. No treatment, no cure, not even a test that can be conducted on the living. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - Climate Hackers, Iceberg Invasion, and Thirsty Camels By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 30 2009 Today's Planet 100 covers Climate Hackers, Iceberg Invasion, and Thirsty Camels. + READ MORE

Save a Cow, Eat a Vegetarian? Let's All Agree: Factory Farming is the Real Evil, Not Vegans By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Nov 27 2009 Just imagine how much more productive it'd be if vegans and small farm omnivores worked collectively toward an equally palatable goal: End factory farming, battery cages, veal crates, etc. and all the damage this system is inflicting on humans, animals, and the planet. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - This Week Recycled By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 25 2009 Among the top stories this week, President Obama says 'yes he can' to Copenhagen, Bill and Melinda Gates pledge to fund sustainable farming and a controversial video of polar bears falling from the sky tries to make a point about carbon emissions. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - Copenhagen, Polar Bear Robots and Gore's Plan B By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 23 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at surprise top-level invitations to the Copenhagen conference, a mechanical zoo exhibit and Al Gore's crazy new tactics. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - November 18, 2009 By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 20 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at U.S.-China Energy Pact, Palin Goes Rogue in Climate Facts, and Alaska's War on Polar Bears. + READ MORE

Planet 100 - November 17, 2009 By Team Planet Green IN Features Nov 20 2009 Today's Planet 100 looks at Whales Saved by Japanese Recession, Giant Disco Ball in Space, and Feeding the Planet. + READ MORE

Alicia Silverstone's 'Kind Diet' Trims Waists, Cuts Waste (Interview) By Laurel House IN Food & Health Nov 18 2009 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. + READ MORE

Politics Is Show Business for Ugly People (Nellie McKay Interview) By Rachel Cernansky IN Features Nov 16 2009 Young and rising musician Nellie McKay talks about when she became vegan, how she talks about her politics to the media and to her audiences, and the political responsibility she feels she has not only as an artist, but as an individual: "you can't be neutral on a moving train." + READ MORE

Which 10 Countries Have the Most Endangered Species? By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Hunting, habitat loss, livestock grazing, climate change, overpopulation-these are just some of the reasons why our planet is losing species at an alarming rate. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: The Endangered American Prairie Makes Environmentalists Out of Ranchers By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Usually at odds with each other, ranchers and conservationists have come together in the American west to conserve and revive the health of the American prairie. A respect for the land and the need to keep it healthy have created these unlikely but fruitful partnerships. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Grey Wolf Hunting Allowed! By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Wolves are either an endangered species or the enemy of farmers, depending on perspective. A hunting season was just reinstated for this once endangered animal, to no small opposition from conservationists. + READ MORE

Focus on Focus Earth: Air Safety Vs. Geese, An Unfair Battle By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 13 2009 Ever since the US Airways scare in New York, geese have been blamed for endangering air safety. But it's not such a fair game. Killing geese (the wrong kind) while they're grounded is not the answer. + READ MORE

V is for Vegan: Natalie Portman Has Joined the Fight, How About You? By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Nov 9 2009 The popular actress is making the transition "from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist." How about you? + READ MORE

Is the Western Wolf Hunt an Outright Battle Against Science? By David DeFranza IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 6 2009 Doug Honnold, the managing attorney of EarthJustice, writes that a sad milestone has passed: "More than 100 [gray] wolves have been killed since Idaho and Montana began hunting them this fall." Following President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in parts of the Midwest, Montana, and Idaho, governors in the later states approved plans to allow wolf hunts to take place this fall. So far, the casualties have been severe. + READ MORE

Single Slaughterhouse Shut Down for Animal Abuse; What About the Other 5,700? By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Nov 3 2009 Question: what exactly constitutes "animal cruelty" in a slaughterhouse? + READ MORE