• Is organic food viable with such high prices?

• Former congressman teaches kids "bees, trees and rocks."

• Ford complies with EPA's demand that they remove "biggest source of lead put into the environment each year."

• Eco-angst one for the DSM -- Ecological transparency increases shopper awareness, misgivings

"These rating systems herald the death of 'greenwashing,' the advertising sleight-of-hand that plucks a single virtue from a multitude of a product's ecological impacts and touts its environmental goodness. We will no longer be impressed by an organic T-shirt if its cotton was grown by hogging water in an arid and impoverished land, or if its dye puts workers at heightened risk for leukemia, or if it was stitched together in a sweatshop where young women suffer from needless injuries."

• On a similar note, another sleight-of-hand I've noticed is producers using packaging that appears as though it would be eco-friendly (green packaging, packaging with green leaves on it, use of the word nature or natural, etc.) without it ever mentioning any of the actual environmental benefits. Case in point: Pantene Nature Fusion.

• Omaha fashion week features green couture

• Anna Lenzer tackles Fiji Water, its silence on the Fijian military and its lack of concern for the locals. Fiji responds with this, steering clear of any specifics on what it donates to the locals. (Read Mother Jones' co-editor's response in the comments.)