Natural Sriracha Sauce Recipe?

By elephantjournal.com on May 20, 2009

Natural Sriracha (hot sauce) recipe. This morning, I got a tweet from @marcalt: Is there a sriracha sauce that doesn't contain potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum? #sriracha Now, I'm a hot sauce…

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Green Beauty Tips. ~ via Angie Provost, Intent.com

By elephantjournal.com on May 1, 2009

When It Comes to Beauty, It Ain't Easy Being Green By Angie Provost Kermit’s words have never been truer than they are today.  It ain't easy being green, especially when it comes to your personal…

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How much do you love the earth?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 26, 2009

...Not enough to get one of these phones, when you could get an iPhone or Blackberry or Razr or whatever free cell your phone company is offering you, instead. Not enough to, like this…

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Ask the Experts: Eco Paint? Toxic Walls? American Clay? Low-VOC, no-VOC?

By elephantjournal.com on Mar 14, 2009

  Dear Waylon, Hi! I am glad you didn't get killed when Pale Girl hit you.  I hope you (and your groin area) are okay. I have a consideration for elephant journal: I would like to ask…

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Top 10 Eco …ish Shower Curtains via Sprig.com.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 1, 2009

We posted on Sprig's perhaps-imminent demise yesterday. So check out this lovely, helpful slideshow on 10 semi-to-very-eco shower curtains before it's too late! Remember: Sprig's vinyl options may be better than the toxic genital-shrinking shower…

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Plastic, all too often = Cancer. Will liquid wood replace it?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2009

Via the Christian Science Monitor, which was Trungpa Rinpoche's model for the original Shambhala Sun magazine:    Almost 40 years ago, American scientists took their first steps in a quest to break the world’s…

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The toxic landfill beast that is Styrofoam…vs EcoFoam.

By Heather Mueller on Sep 19, 2008

I can't tell you how many companies and PR firms send us their "eco," "plastic-free," "recycled" products in huge boxes filled with Styrofoam peanuts. We currently have a mini snowstorm going on in Waylon's…

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elephant journal: Autumn ecofashion: photo slideshow [Mission Playground, Nau, Rachel Znerold, Texture, El Naturalista, Earth, Viktor Von Vleit]

By elephantjournal dotcom on Sep 16, 2008

Want to impress your class crush? Show your sophistication with sustainable fashion—(born again) Nau’s technical outerwear and fashionable basics, Mission Playground’s casually hip staples and modern Victorian-style, recycled fashion by Viktor von Vleit. Make a…

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A Method to the Madness?

By Heather Mueller on Aug 20, 2008

When reviewing Method for our Summer 08 cleaning-themed issue, we had a hard time giving the products our 100% eco stamp of approval. [this just in, we're not the only reviewers who are big fans…

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ele: SUSTAINABILITY — Green, Non-Toxic, Non-VOC Paint [Friendly Painters]

By elephantjournal dotcom on Aug 19, 2008

From the Spring 2006 issue, via Todd Ansted Is it possible for all paint colors to be green? To use an environmentally-friendly paint is much better for to our earth—but is it practical? I started my house…

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Just Say No—to Windex. Please.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 13, 2008

    Night before last, I was merrily enjoying the new network just for me, Planet Green. I mean that, I got nothing to do with them. It's green reality TV, green news, green fashion, green…

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You know the world is f*cked—& waking up—when magazines called “Good” & “Vice” are both putting out caring content w/great style.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Aug 9, 2008

Hipsters give a care? Vice Magazine doing pieces on the environment? Vice, the same magazine that does the gross-out jar and focuses on sex and... ...Do's and Dont's and whatever else. …

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Mindful Parenting: Disposable Baby Diapers vs. Cloth Diapers.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 12, 2008

Until the 1970s, everyone, everywhere used and reused cloth diapers. They're still available through diaper services. "Reusable or disposable?" is probably the most important health/environment decision parents can make. Your average baby uses 5,000 diapers. Each year, the…

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Green Home Renovation: How Durable is Green Paint?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 9, 2008

  Two years ago, I bought my first home. I christened my (actually my bank's—I got one of those now-infamous 100% loans) new old home 'Hotelephant.' Located in downtown (so I could bike everywhere, everyday) Boulder,…

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The Real (radioactive) Thing.

By Todd Mayville on Jun 29, 2008

Activists in India are appealing to the Indian Supreme Court to protect the water rights of the Indian people in several states where Coca Cola plants set up shop. The major issue isn’t necessarily…

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