She’s made some bold career moves (including pulling a Demi by shaving her head for 2006’s V For Vendetta) and also transitioned from being a longtime vegetarian to a straight-up vegan in 2009 after reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s much-discussed book Eating Animals. Not surprisingly, Natalie Portman’s impact has extended well beyond the entertainment world given [...]

If you were waiting for a price drop on Dallas-star Larry Hagman’s off-grid nine-bedroom, 14 1/2 -bathroom Mediterranean-style estate, prepare to get excited. If you were hoping for something under $9 million, you’ll have to wait longer. The previously listed $11 million dollar 43-acre estate appears to have been hit by the financial shit storm [...]

To celebrate 30 years of fighting for animals, PETA has released an all-American foodstuff that’s as sticky as it is delicious. PETA Butter. “Peanut butter is used on one of the most popular sandwiches in America—and it’s vegan—so PETA Butter was a natural choice,” said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. Yes, that’s right. Now you [...]

Photo credit topgold via flickr. Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we resharpened) and went out for a treat on the money we "saved." This year, living back in the U.S. the list of "required" supplies was longer and more specific ("2 granola bars, no nuts???"), leading me to ask myself: "Is my kid really going to use these 50 pencils I'm providing?" and more importantly, "Why are schools' a... Read the full story on TreeHugger