Blogs & Ecology

:: Titillating tomatoes? Erotic avocados? Check out which surprisingly sexy pantry ingredients act as natural aphrodisiacs.

:: Don't let a dead cell battery ruin a good conversation. Learn how make your phone last longer with these seven easy strategies.

:: Which brew has the best green bite? Eco-friendly East Coast beers abound in our Buy Green: Beer guide!...

Image source: Dee's Mini Doughnuts

Thanks to Daily Candy for their tip about Dee's and her tasty mini organic donuts. Handcrafted in their facility in San Rafael, CA, all preservatives and artificial flavorings are left out in favor of thrilling glazes like cinnamon sugar, toasted coconut, raging raspberry, and (YUM!) Dagoba orange chocolate. Sprinkles available upon request....

:: Let your little goblins and monsters enjoy their Halloween sugar high--the all-natural way. Stock up on the tasty treats listed in our Buy Green: Halloween Candy guide.

:: Create a scary costume and still save some cash. Paper mache your own mask!

:: Bottle feed baby? Seek out BPA-free and eco-friendly bottle brands.

:: Mocha Cocoa-lovers, delight in this sustainably sinful pair: organic Sumatran coffee and organic Flourless Chocolate Cake.

:: Revive dry and dull hair with this DIY beer-based home remedy....

350.org: Presidential Invite Campaign Launch by Jamie
"We've just launched a new campaign to send McCain and Obama thousands of invitations to the UN Climate Meetings this December in Poland. Get in on the action by watching the video below and visiting our special campaign page to send an invitation of your own:"

Designing for Humanity: One month to go... by Heather Worrell

:: Prepare a frozen pizza in a DIY solar car shade oven.

:: Make a homemade gift that they won't resist--Emeril's Fudgy Brownies.

:: Kick your cigarette habit in the butt!...

Compartes Chocolatier is partnering with Relief Beads for Darfur to support the end to war and genocide in that country, as well as redevelopment of the country and people.

Vegan, fair-trade and organic chocolate-coated sandwich cookies pretty much summarizes what Leafygreen.info is all about. People out there can produce amazingly awesome cookies with green ingredients and practices. Yes, these cookies are more expensive then the traditional Oh cookies but they are 100% worth it.

Dark chocolate that just melts in your mouth reveals a vegan stuff crème inside surrounded by more chocolate (as in the cookie). Such a treat! Maybe you should purchase some, send them as gifts, eat them yourself or just glance at their beauty.

Equal Exchange offers a lot of fair trade products such as coffee, tea and chocolate. I recently sampled the Organic Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts and the Organic Dark Chocolate with Almonds.

They are the companies you love to hate, purveyors of overly packaged processed foods, the Top 30 food processors in North America.

Or are they? Companies like Kraft, Pepsi and General Mills have joined the new wave of start-ups and stand-bys serving the growing market of informed consumers who want better, greener food. Due to complex or shadowy relationships, or simply because no one can keep up with mergers and acquisitions, you may react as one TreeHugger staffer did: "I must admit to be a little bummed learning about Seeds of Change and Dagoba."

Photo credit: eszter

323 million -- the amount, in dollars, that US consumers spent last week on chocolate candy for Valentine's Day, according to Nielsen estimates.

414 million -- the amount, in dollars, that US consumers spent last week on candy for Valentine's Day, making it the most popular day for chocolate sales and third in overall candy sales, behind Halloween and Easter.