Seven European countries are going a little greener in their bathrooms, with a new eco-friendly toilet that is set to reduce pollution, conserve water, and maintain nutrients. The “NoMix” toilet has been brought to centre stage.

Waterborne disease has a chance to be combated with a new low-cost water purification technique recently outlined in Current Protocols in Microbiology. By using seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, 90.00% to 99.99% of bacteria can be reduced.

Bottled water has been under scrutiny for its health conscious claims due to emerging clinical data that reveals the contrary. Bottled water also poses a wide range of health and environmental problems

Despite Spring being in the air, we seem to have a few chilly days still emerging for the opportunity to highlight winter produce in our meals.

I journeyed into Haiti just a few months ago to volunteer with the NEGES (Nest for Educational Growth & Environmental Safety) foundation. NEGES has several environmental initiates either ongoing or planned,

Did you know that in some areas, illegal timber outweighs that its legal counterparts? That’s why the Rainforest Alliance has worked hard to reassess and develop new standards for companies to follow when harvesting our natural resource.

Tomorrow marks the yearly event of Groundhog Day, the second day in February when we all anticipate if Spring is around the corner. I recently read an article, however, noting that if we discontinue our traditional shadow-spying ways, Spring will, indeed, be on the way.

Later this week, the small city of Guelph, Ontario, will be hosting their 29th annual Guelph Organic Conference. Organized and promoted non-profit  ‘Organic Food Conferences Canada’ (OFCC), this conference will tackle everything from organic living to building to industrializing.

We’ve been raving about Jennifer Cornbleet and her quick, easy and delicious raw vegan  dishes. We’ve reviewed two of her books:  Raw Food Made Easy and Raw for Dessert… and first highlighted her Harvest Salad as the perfect winter side dish. This dessert recipe comes from Raw Food Made Easy, wonderfully comforting and oh-so-delicious.

I was introduced to sushi sometime in the early 2000’s, probably at the advent of sushi restaurants popping up all over the place. Now sushi restaurants are as ubiquitous as hamburger fast food places.