LIVING PLANET

Palm oil, a primary ingredient in certain foods, cosmetics and even household products, is a serious issue because of the negative impacts it’s having on the environment and wildlife.  The palm oil industry is causing havoc across many environmental groups…Read More

We see these natural disasters happening back to back around the globe, devastating earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, yet a majority of the public still doesn’t take climate change as a serious issue that needs to be addressed. According to a…Read More

Today’s farms, like most other businesses, are experiencing ever increasing costs like never before. Be them small family owned farms or large ones, farm management is an ever increasing challenge in preserving profitability from higher costs of equipment, fuel, transportation, current…Read More

When something becomes trendy, we often get caught in using catchwords or phrases that at times we really do not know the true meaning of them or what they signify. Although not a trend but more a way of life…Read More

We’ve just wrapped up Fashion Week here in New York, which means the last week has been full of runway shows and parties. As with any fashion week we always have our ear out for anything new and interesting that…Read More

As the global warming debate rages on, a recent article in the Daily Mail September 28th, 2013 poses an interesting theory that in actual fact the Artic ice cap is actually cooling. Their headline quotes a 29% growth in the…Read More

Mt. Kilimanjaro, which is comprised of three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is an expansive volcanic mountain in Tanzania, Africa. Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Over the past century, this popular tourist destination, with its enormous biodiversity and…Read More

Poison ivy has forever been a nuisance for 80% of the population and will continue to be with increased levels of CO2. Recent studies done by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) at Duke University have found…Read More

The warming of the world’s oceans is a prime factor in the global loss of reef building corals, which are home to thousands of species of fish. When the corals die, the fish have nowhere else to go. Coral reef…Read More

The changing climate due to global warming has created many changes in our eco-system that include everything from rising sea levels, warmer oceans and longer, more intense droughts. All of this affects the animals that live in our eco-system and…Read More