The most beloved spread since Skippy’s, chocolate-hazelnut favourite Nutella, is facing a tax debate in France right now due to one of its ingredients. (Huffington Post) France’s National Assembly is considering imposing a tax on Nutella because it contains palm oil, a widely used but environmentally-destructive edible oil. The [...]

You’ve decided to make the switch to vegetable oil as a fuel. You’ve read all about straight vegetable oil (SVO) and waste vegetable oil (WVO) and have started looking for a suitable diesel vehicle for your conversion. You don’t have a lot of money to spend. Here’s how to pick [...]

  Perhaps you are already trying to leave a smaller environmental footprint by recycling and switching to renewable sources of energy to power your home, but want to kick things up a notch by eliminating your contribution to that cloud of smog everyone chokes down each day. Maybe you simply [...]