If chocolate is one of your favorite guilty pleasures,like it is mine, you can feel a little less guilty about it if you treat yourself to the “sustainable” kind. A growing number of chocolate manufacturers are addressing important social and environmental challenges within the cocoa industry, and they’re offering a variety of new, “sustainable chocolate” products with eco-labels you can trust.

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Melissa McGinnis and Greenopolis TV visit the Charlie Hoffman Foundation Pro-Am Golf Tournament for some recycling tips from the pros. Taking place at the beautiful Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, CA this tournament draws a lot of influentials, celebrities and pro golfers. PGA Pro Charley Hoffman started the foundation and organized the successful day and evening auctions. The mission of the Foundation and is to help raise money and awareness for childrens organizations that provide a positive environment to better their future through education, sports, and health.

Have you ever heard the word nurdle? How about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Watch this video to learn a little bit more about both and how they are connected from "nurdle" expert Daniella Russo, Founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Ocean fish are wildlife - the last such creatures that we hunt on a large scale. And while the sheer size of the oceans is awesome, there are many signs that we have found their limits. Despite our best efforts, the global catch of wild fish leveled off over 20 years ago and 70 percent of the world's fisheries are being harvested at capacity or are in decline.