Conventional cocoa is frequently grown with an abundance of harmful pesticides under conditions that threaten biodiversity. In West Africa, low pay for growers has led to underpaid workers and even child trafficking. [read more]

Organic beer is getting to be big business. In the past few years, the large national brewers Anheuser-Busch, Miller and New Belgium have all introduced organic products, joining a growing number of microbreweries offering organic beer. [read more]

6/17/2008 Given the disastrous flooding in the Midwest, I feel foolish complaining about the heat that recently engulfed New York City. I live on the top floor of a six-story walk-up, and my apartment was hot, all day and all night. [read more]