"In New England, the Literacy rate was over 50 percent during the first half of the 17th century, and it rose to 70 percent by 1710. By the time of the American Revolution, it was around 90...

Stocks go up, and stocks go down - but contrary to popular belief of the mysterious and confusing stock market, investors can profit when stocks go down too. As I learned in An American Hedge Fund,...

Former paper lobbyist, now Agriculture Undersecretary (a position which oversees the U.S. Forest Service), Mark Rey, is under some serious fire from U.S. District Judge Donald W. Malloy in Missoula,...

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble - there's a new genetically enhanced bacteria strain that literally craps ethanol at high temperatures. The bacteria strain, called TM242, is particularly special...

Social Enterprise Magazine has recently added to their website a wonderful 32 page booklet with neat bits of information and fun stories to get people fired up about Social enterprise Day (to be...

95 years after its inception, it is pretty easy to forget about the largest corporation in the United States. It is very easy to just take it for granted, and assume, what this gargantuan corporation...

If you appreciate the great outdoors, then you probably want to keep it just as lush and beautiful for every generation to come. It's not a big leap from tree-lover to tree-hugger, and REI is...

A group by the name of Forest Ethics is using YouTube to spread a message - West Fraser is cutting down Caribou. The video states caribou populations in Canada have fallen almost 50%, and are on the...

With fall coming around, these are some of the best months to go camping. Not as many bugs, slightly cooler days - the great outdoors is calling, can you hear it? However, some of the traditional...

It's a gift giver's worst nightmare - giving a gift they consider trash. Well why not just outright give them trash? It's been said before, one man's trash is another man's...

Remember when Michael Jordan started playing baseball? How about the day pigs started flying? I ran across something very similar. Apparently Tyco has joined the Ethisphere Council in teaching other...

It's no secret the nations of Africa are struggling to survive. Between the AIDS pandemic and the multitude of problems and other health risk factors facing those who wish to help - it just seems...

There has to be a careful balance with biofuels. As seen with ethanol, creating a fuel out of an otherwise usable crop can create supply and demand fluctuations. Additionally, it may even add to a...

Despite efforts to decrease lead in children's toys and jewelry, "recent surveys by health officials and children's advocates in Massachusetts, Maryland and Ohio, [...] found lead...

Way back in World War II, a chemical called chlorpyrifos was used in chemical bombs. Nowadays, they just use it as a pesticide for cotton, corn, almonds, and fruit - among other things, like termite...

Okay so "barter" doesn't exactly sound like "butter" to most of you, but it does to me - I'm from the south. ...well, at least I thought it was funny. Anyways, I've...

Being the leanest, greenest brand of them all takes a lot of gumption and know-how. Not only do you have to be highly competitive as a business, but you also have to take care of the social bottom...

A free bicycle program in Paris has started off really well, as far as demand goes. With over a thousand a day opting to peddle instead of park, they could definitely make a big dent in their CO-2...

Imagine having a super smart search engine, where all you have to do is put in a broad topic and it will come up with everything and everyone important relating to that topic, and what they have done....