"According to the popcorn industry, Americans gobble 16 billion quarts of popcorn each year, or 54 quarts per person, or approximately not
Simran Sethi
Simran Sethi: The Planetary Impact of Popcorn

Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat
It’s lunchtime, baby. Panda Garden. Porky goodness. Mooshu style.
The “other white meat” in your takeout container falls behind beef and chicken in American consumption, but we do pig out on pig—on average, each of us consumes 51 pounds of Wilbur annually. That translates to big impact on our water and air.

The Hidden Cost of $40 “Bling Water”
Apparently, Kabbalah Water will heal us and Bling Water will define us. At the Bling H20 website, Bling Water “creator” Kevin Boyd describes noticing on Hollywood studio lots that “you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water they carried.” First of all, didn’t god create water?

Green Shoe Fetish
With ye olde cobbler long dead (re-soling Jesus’s Birkenstocks in forgotten profession heaven) and cheap production methods shortening the lives of shoes, Americans have gotten into the habit of pitching worn out (or simply undesired) kicks and buying new ones. Shoe-shopping has become something of a fetish, a joke, an emblem of the spoiled housewife who fills her emotional void with Italian suede.

Yoga: The Union of You and the Planet
The majority of yoga mats are manufactured in Taiwan and made of poly-vinyl chloride, or PVC. PVC makes a great mat due to its grip, durability and price point. But, unfortunately, there is no safe way to create, use or destroy these mats.
A guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh

Life After Desk: Don’t Toss that Tropical Hardwood
How can a mahogany desk, made of slow-growing hard wood plundered from the Amazon, be eco-friendly?
When it’s re-used.
A guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh

Greensburg, Kansas Fundraiser this Week in Kansas City
This Thursday, the Kansas City chapter of AIGA will hold a fundraiser for Greensburg, Kansas’ efforts to rebuild (and rebuild green at that).

The Lindberg Report Podcast: Interview With Simran Sethi of the Sundance Channel
Simran Sethi, award-winning environmental journalist featured on the Sundance Channel and sundancechannel.com, is documenting Greensburg’s recovery as a “Green City†with her new series The Good Fight. She’s also promoting a fund-raising effort to help citizens rebuild their community.