BP Fined $15 Million For Clean Air Violations

BP Products North America, one of the world’s biggest oil and natural gas companies, has been fined $15 million by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA announced on Thursday September 30 that the fossil fuel company, which is in the midst of a gulf cleanup, should pay what is the largest penalty for a civil [...]

An 11-Year-Old Takes On the Food “System”

This amazing 11 year old, Birke Baehr, spoke at a TED event about what is wrong with the food system in America and what we can do to change things. From pesticides and genetically modified seeds, to sugar-laden cereals and marketing to kids, this kid makes amazing points. Most important, though, is that he knows [...]

General Mills Makes Palm Oil Promise

General Mills announced plans to “source 100% of our palm oil from responsible and sustainable sources by 2015.”According to the September 22, 2010, release, the company has made a statement on responsible palm oil sourcing,  adding that the move is part of its aim to make sure products they buy “are not associated in any [...]

The Food Orgasm: Coconut Milk Frozen Dessert

Love is the only reason I can justify spending $7 on a pint of frozen dessert. Tonight, when I brought my basket to the register at Garden of Eden, the checkout girl was dumbfounded when I responded $6.99 after the scanner failed to assign a price to my treat: Luna & Larry’s Bare Naked Coconut [...]

The Electric Scooter

BMW released a new eco-minded motorbike that fuses elements of a luxury motorcycle, compact electric cars and the sleek moped . The release of the bike featured model Agyness Deyn, pictured with the bike below. Dubbed the MINI Scooter E Concept, the product was released in London, 10 years after the original MINI hit the [...]

MoogFest: The Next Bonnaroo?

A three-day music festival in North Carolina dubbed MoogFest just might give Bonnaroo a run for its money. While the latter became a household name in a short number of years, MoogFest boasts an impressive lineup of indie artists, sprinkled with hip hop, also in the Southeast. Here are the big name acts that will [...]

Denim Satisfaction

At the risk of sounding shallow, I remember when I bought my first pair of designer jeans. I was not yet a NYC resident, but a visitor in town for a long weekend. I splurged on a respectable pair of straight leg fitted-but-not-skinny pair of blue Diesel jeans from the store on Lexington at 60th Street. [...]

The Celebrity Workout: Freebie

One of the most popular boutique workouts today is Physique 57, a NYC- and Los Angeles-based program that focuses on cardio and orthopedic stretches. Bottom line, this appears to be a core-focused workout, which has the likes of SJP, Zooey Deschanel, and Kelly Ripa hooked. While exercise was once all about burning calories, in these [...]

Outsourced: Are You Next?

You know you’ve working the India shift too long when you start getting press releases about Indian DVDs. I’m not making this up. I work on India, England and New York time zones for my work as a financial editor. I was lured by the promise of a trip to India, complete with fitted Saris. [...]

NYC’s New Museum Gets Swanky Cafe

Modern downtown art institution the New Museum has partnered with Flatiron’s City Bakery to offer amazing cafe food within the contemporary museum. The brainchild of City Bakery Founder Maury Rubin, sustainable bakery Birdbath supplies beverages and food for the museum cafe and also handles catering. Birdbath is a sustainable bakery with locavores and organic consumers [...]

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