Ever wonder why you end up spending so much more money at the supermarket than you originally intended? Maybe it’s because you didn’t follow a list, but it could also be that you’re falling for common grocery store tricks that make you spend more money. Instead of buying items that you don’t need and food that will go to waste before you even eat it, educated yourself on these marketing ploys that play with your head.

The entrance to a grocery store is setup like a trap, and it’s known as the “chill zone” to stores. Here you will find impulse buys such ...

Particular loggerhead turtles populations are listed as threatened by the United States. The U.S. is home to some of the most important nesting sites for the species in the world. In recent years, the populations of loggerheads have seen even greater declines.

Such declines caused numerous conservation organizations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose listing seven of the turtles populations as endangered ...

Just a few articles back, Marina talked about plastics and some of its perennial issues with recycling. A new breakthrough promises to end all those ecological headaches. If new research is to be believed, boffins at IBM may have developed a process that does away with the petroleum based process for plastics. Instead, the new technology uses plants as the mother source.

Plastics derived from plants have one game turning advantage – they can be made biodegradable. Chandrasekhar "Spike" Narayan, a manager of science and technology at IBM's Almaden Research Center in Northern California said ...

In order to recycle plastics, you have to have some knowledge about the types of plastics and which ones you can even recycle. If you don’t have much experience recycling plastics or are unsure of which ones can go in your curbside bin, this overview of plastics by the numbers can be your guide.

Most plastics have a number imprinted inside of a recycling triangle, usually at the bottom of the product, which actually tells you quite a bit about the plastic. These resin identification codes are used to label different types of plastics, and your local recycling center ...

Biofuels are a hot topic when discussing alternative fuel methods. Many nations have biofuels readily available for use in vehicles. Many airlines have also taken to using, or at least experimenting with, biofuels. Many argue, however, that the use of biofuels causes valuable farm land to be used for fuel crops instead of food.

Not only does using a food crop for fuel potentially limit the amount of land available for consumer food crops, it also has been criticized as detrimental to the ...

Eat Less Nutrient-poor Foods

In keeping with your healthy diet, one thing that should be limited is your intake of nutrient-poor foods. Such foods and beverages are high in calories but low in nutrients, and they are a waste of plastic, paper and other resources. They often contain saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol and sodium—ingredients detrimental to your heart health. Your daily food choices can be made simpler by paying close attention to the Nutrition Facts panel, which will tell you how much nutrients each food or beverage contains. Just remember ...

The traditional way of determining a country’s greenhouse gas emissions involves taking into account all of their industries, car pollutants and various other means of  generating emissions. When determined in this manner, China is the top emissions producer in the world, having surpassed the United States some years ago. However, a new study is pointing to imports being a large contributor to a country’s emissions, emissions that are not counted towards the country that is importing.

Researchers ...

They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. This adage especially held true for wine growers. The necessity was the growing concern and the battle against chronic water shortages. Water, and in sufficiently large quantities, is the life blood for vineyards. Though the entire world is engrossed in different stages of water crisis, it is the wine industry that has seen something resembling a breakthrough.

The invention is a web application that alerts wine grape farmers when their vines are parched. The impetus for the invention came about from a global competition started by Imagine ...

Why is it so important for individuals to make sure they are keeping a healthy heart by living a healthy lifestyle? Well, not only is heart disease is the no. 1 cause of death in men and women, eating healthy also goes hand in hand with the environment. In order for you to put quality food in your body, it’s important for you as a consumer to support quality food through your purchases.

According to recent American Heart Association research, over 64 million Americans have one or more forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This means the chances of you or your loved ones ...

Making buildings more environmentally friendly is a growing business sector, especially since many projects reduce costs as well. It is estimated that retrofitting projects to make buildings greener will triple in the next few years and by 2014 will be a $15.1 billion business. A potential popular component for urban buildings may be pyramid-covered windows.

The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) has created an “integrated concentrating dynamic solar façade,” ...