As thrilled as we are to introduce our new dish liquid formula, we are equally excited to introduce the packaging that it comes in. To protect this new formula on its way to shelves and homes, we sourced a new 25oz dish bottle that contains 90% post consumer recycled plastic, up from 25% in our current bottles. In fact, depending on whom you ask around here, getting the bottle right took as much patience and perseverance as developing the new formula. New Formula

With household budgets under pressure and locally-grown foods all the rage, the backyard vegetable garden is making a comeback. Increasing numbers of Americans are discovering their green thumbs along with the bigger savings and better flavors of meals grown a few steps from their kitchens. But eating backyard bounty is the easy part. It's the growing that can get a little tricky. As any experienced gardener will tell you, success is rooted in your soil.

It's fall, and America's farms and gardens are brimming with a cornucopia of edible plenty. The harvest is here, and there's so much fresh produce available that try though we might, it's impossible to eat it all. And so comes the locavore's annual autumn lament: If only there was some way we could set a table like this all year round. The short answer is you can. The secret lies in the lost art of do-it-yourself food preservation, a once vital family tradition that the many conveniences of modern life have let most of us largely forget.

Given the amount of time we spend removing it, most of us need no convincing that the average home accumulates about 40 pounds of dust each year.

Expecting a baby or have a brand new child at home? Chances are your nesting instincts have kicked into overdrive. While that means different things to different people, one thing it should mean to every mom and dad is creating a home that’s clean, green, and environmentally safe. Your growing baby is exposed to the air you breathe, and you want your surroundings to be as healthy as possible. Keeping your home toxin-free is an easy thing to do, and one of the most important gifts you can give to your little ones.

While the first Thanksgiving is generally remembered as the one held by the Indians and Pilgrims in 1621, that famous event was actually a three-day harvest celebration of the colony's first successful growing season. For the Puritans, a day of thanksgiving was hardly a party. It was a solemn occasion marked by prayer and, quite ironically, fasting instead of feasting.

September 1st, 2009 was an illuminating day for consumers in the European Union. At midnight, a ban on traditional incandescent bulbs shut out the lights on that outdated technology and began saving consumers five billion euros a year in energy costs.

They are known as the three Rs, the holy trinity of sustainability that asks us to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. I would now like to suggest a fourth R: Rot. It may sounds strange, but rot is a crucial part of maintaining a low-impact home. Rot means composting, the art of creating nutrient-rich fertilizer from kitchen scraps, yard trimmings, and other organic wastes. Composting takes these materials out of our trash cans and returns them to the Earth where they're needed.

The news from the front lines of childhood nutrition isn't good these days. Junk food prevails, and fat, sugar, and salt are the mainstay ingredients in the meals kids prefer. What's coming out of the nation's pantry isn't a happy meal at all but an unprecedented pediatric obesity epidemic rivaled only by skyrocketing rates of childhood diabetes.

There's no symbol of childhood more enduring than the playground. Put a sandbox next to a swing set, add a slide and some kids, and what emerges is a portrait of pure joy. Indeed, whether they're in our backyards, at the park, or behind the school, playgrounds are a vital refuge from the world outside. Yet sometimes there can be less safety in these havens than meets the eye.