Ecoconsumer Batteries energize our lives more than ever before. They power our advanced smartphones and wearable electronics, a zillion toys and gadgets, even electronic cigarettes....
Ecoconsumer Got any room left on your list of New Year’s resolutions? Environmental issues connect with everything else we care about, so they certainly deserve...
Ecoconsumer Holiday recycling is the gift that keeps on giving. Recycling and reusing your trashed packaging and other detritus from the holidays shouldn’t be a...
Ecoconsumer Seattle-area residents are so eco-aware that some might even suffer from “green gift-giving fatigue.” You may love to receive green holiday gifts, and you...
Ecoconsumer Every holiday party or dinner could become at least a little greener. But before the green guilt — a common Seattle-area condition — kicks...
Ecoconsumer Electronic devices are all about convenience, which helps to explain why we don’t spend much time considering the environmental impact of our smartphones, tablets,...
Ecoconsumer Our furniture just sits there. But every piece has a history — even the least-expensive, mass-produced furniture. We need to consider the backstory of...
Ecoconsumer Just one large tree can produce a bounty of 30,000 to 50,000 leaves every year. Physics professor Rhett Allain at Southeastern Louisiana University came...
Ecoconsumer Where could you find hundreds of different chemicals, many of them complex, unpronounceable and unregulated? Besides at a chem lab, they could actually be...