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Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world. Most people just want sewage to go away, preferably without having to see, smell, or worse yet, touch it.

Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white.

Eighty-three million dogs and ninety-six million cats call the United States home. Dogs alone produce enough waste to fill more than 1,091 football fields 1 foot deep in a single year.

In the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh-the worst garment industry accident in recorded history-the phrase "fashion disaster" acquired a new and much more sinister me

Small-scale home biodiesel production holds a singular attraction for the do-it-yourself enthusiast.

You want to do something for the planet, but what' Change a light bulb, install a low-flow faucet, eat organic' How about ride forty-seven hundred miles across America on a bamboo bicycle

More than ever, people are longing for deep and meaningful change. Another world is not only possible; it is essential.

Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal five sunny, gently sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil.

Would you like to lose weight, feel great, and minimize the impact of your eating habits on the environment' The Planet Friendly Diet is a unique, all-inclusive blueprint for a greener lifesty

The craft of home cheesemaking is exploding in popularity.

Most supermarket mushrooms are bland and boring; products of an industrial process which typically relies on expensive equipment and harmful pesticides.

Dreena Burton demonstrates that anyone can prepare an array of delectable vegan dishes without compromising one's health or sense of taste.

We all look forward to spring and summer, when the sun returns, the blooms bud, and we feel the urge to reacquaint ourselves with the great outdoors.

Get tempted by an inspiring array of vegan recipes from the authors of How It All Vegan!

Sarah Kramer is a vegan cooking superstar. Her first two books, How It All Vegan! and The Garden of Vegan, co-authored with Tanya Barnard, have sold well over 100,000 copies; How It All Vegan!