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BRIDESMAIDS’ GIFTS Create a nice basket for the special women in your bridal party with gifts that give back to others and that do not harm our environment. The Organic Babassu Soaps, $18 at Natural Territory, are a fair-trade item made by a cooperative of women in the Brazilian Amazon. World of Good donates 10 [...]

Pledge to reduce your carbon footprint. Accept the challenge and you can drop 3,000 pounds of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Take one step each month, and by the end of the year, your footprint will be a little smaller. We’d love to hear about your successes. Here’s the plan, developed by The Green Guide. [...]

CSX Transportation will become the first railroad in Illinois to use what the freight industry calls "green" GenSet locomotives. Instead of a single hulking diesel engine, GenSet locomotives rely on a series of electrical generators, similar to the ones that temporarily provide juice to buildings during power outages. "A lot of people think there is [...]

A Stunning New Development Provides Renewable Energy From Artificial Trees to Power Cars and Homes More powerful than wind farms, more efficient than solar panels and more practical and aesthetically pleasing than both. Solar Botanic is a company which harvests the energy of the sun and wind by incorporating established science into an innovative nanotechnology. [...]

Hybrid cars boast of an all-encompassing operational system. They operate by combining an electricity-run motor, a diesel engine and maximum-powered batteries. The battery gives off energy for the electric motor and recharges when it recaptures the energy that is usually lost when the car is lessening its acceleration or while it is coasting. The Way [...]

"Lauren Baker has always considered herself "green," and after her daughter was born that interest took on a whole new meaning. Baker says she started thinking more about what it means to be environmentally aware, and that meant figuring out how to teach her daughter what’s important, how to find organic products, how to support [...]