Call it flexitarianism, conscious meat consumption, or low meat eating, lots of people are saving the flesh for special occasions and adopting a veg-centric diet. If you’ve been thinking about going vegetarian or vegan for the planet, but you really like meat and think you’ll miss it, or you’re worried that your nutrition will suffer, or you don’t want to subject your entire family to an extreme change, I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be black and white.

On a personal note, I’ve been eating about 85% veg for a few years now and it works for …

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Green is now in play in the games of tennis and golf, part of the ritzy turf beyond the perennial rye grass planted in Wimbledon in 2001 and the countless courses of manicured sod watered daily worldwide.

Can eco gear improve the sports? At least it makes the athletes feel they’re endorsing something other than Wheaties, Buick and American Express.

Here are some winning new classics now sustaining the social sports we love.

Lela Designs from Canada uses chemical-free bamboo, organic cotton, PET fibers, to create updated sophisticated golf wear, worn …

Tags: eco tennis equipment , golf , green backpacks , green sports equiment , sporting goods , supplies

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The tens of thousands of albatross chicks who have been sickened or killed by lead-based paint can’t exactly walk into a courtroom and stand up for themselves – so an environmental group is doing it for them.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to clean up lead-contaminated paint on buildings at a former U.S. Navy base on the Midway atoll, which is the most important breeding site for the Laysan albatross.

Up to 10,000 chicks are killed each year by lead …

Tags: birds , endangered species , lead poisoning , oceans , toxins , wildlife

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Clary Sage Organics Black Ribbon Pants with a Black Essential Cami

I love that yoga clothing has gotten a lot more fashion-forward, don’t you?

Gone are the days of moms in old leotards and tights doing Jazzercise with their breasts bouncing to the beat of Laura Branigan’s “Gloria!”

Movin your Boogie Body?

Clary Sage Organics can keep up with that.

And to prove it, they’ve donated these super …

Tags: 100% organic , California Farmers , Clary Sage Organics , cotton , ecologically sustainable products , organic cotton , Sustainable Cotton Project

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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are going for the green, and even sponsor Coca-Cola is getting in on the sustainable action. The company is aiming to have a net-zero carbon footprint and net-zero waste at the Games, including plant-based packaging, energy conservation and a broad recycling effort.

Coke will be delivering beverages – packaged in the company’s new ‘PlantBottle’, a bioplastic made from 30% biodegradable sugar cane – via hybrid vehicles and electric carts, and will store them in coolers that run on timers to save energy.

Carbon offsets will be used …

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Once upon a time, green cars weren’t exactly hot. Only hardcore treehuggers knew much about them, let alone owned one, while most of the world continued to carry on the grand love affair with SUVs.

It’s 2010, and the times have definitely changed. Now, fuel-efficient cars of all stripes, from compact clean diesel cars to luxury hybrids, are just as sexy and powerful as those increasingly archaic gas guzzlers. These 10 green cars stand out as examples of just how great green really is.

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Tags: clean diesel , electric cars , green , green cars , hybrid cars , lifestyle , Toyota Prius , trend

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“Honey, the dog’s wine crate is empty – can you refill it for him?”

Banish thoughts of pooch-pampering gone mad. Fido isn’t polishing off that bottle of cheap Beaujolais deemed unfit for the dinner table – and that’s a relief because if he was doing so, you’d be poisoning him. What your dog really needs is a bowl of water, and a recycled wine crate is what’s on tap.

Wine crates used to be invisible and unloved – nothing but cheaply-made (read “virgin wood”) boxes to lug bottles of plonk …

Tags: cats and dogs , decor , DIY crafts , petcare , pets , recycling , wine , wine crates , wood

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“Why not give me a choice besides french fries or french fries?” Morgan Spurlock asked the American food industry and regulators in his 2004 fast food exposé Super Size Me. President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2011 begins to answer that question.

Of particular interest to slow food activists and locavores is the administration’s plan to invest $400 million, through public-private grants into the development of super markets, farmers’ markets and other health food stores across the U.S.

The financing should help small businesses …

Tags: budget , EcoMeme , farmers market , fast food , food , FY2011 , health food , USDA

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Here at EcoSalon we love glass – and we’ve spent years celebrating its use in milk bottles and gorgeously translucent tableware, its almost magical ability to be renewed and reshaped by the elements into something truly sublime. We want glass to shove past plastic and regain the well-deserved status it’s enjoyed for the last thousand years. Frankly, we can’t wait.

But nothing has prepared us for this.

A German company called Nanopool has secured the patent for a new type of glass – in spray …

Tags: cleaning , decor , fabrics , glass , health , nanoscale science , news , silicosis , technology

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Confession: On a trip to Venice some years back, I literally slept naked in an ankle-length black mink coat a Republican friend had lent me for the week-long trip. Diddy hasn’t had it so good. Talk about texture porn.

There’s a reasonable explanation for how this happened. I accidentally nodded off in the thing the first night, as I am wont to do, and what can I say? I never slept so well, and decided to keep it up for the whole vacation. Why we don’t sleep naked in …

Tags: ethics , fashion , fur , leather , recycled , vegan , vegetarian

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