If redoing your floor is at the top of your home remodel list in 2008, make sure you check out Forbo. The company specializes in environmentally-friendly, fashionably designed linoleum. Its Marmoleum brand, made from linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, jute and limestone, has earned rave reviews not only because it comes in enough colors to […]
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The Story of Stuff
Ever wonder where all your “stuff” comes from? Or what impact it has when you finally throw it out? You can get the whole story now, at www.storyofstuff.com, the launching space for a fast-paced 20-minute film that offers a black-and-white tour of what our consumer-driven culture really costs us. The brainchild of Annie […]
DON’T Use Your Purse November 23
Big Green Purse is all about ways you can use your consumer clout to protect the environment. One way is to buy sustainable products that do better than their competitors at reducing climate change, cleaning up the air and water, and protecting wildlife. But another is to buy less in the first place. By keeping […]
GUEST POST: Another “One in a Million” Makes a Difference
“Diane, Just writing to let you know that my morning routine now consists of Organic Raisin Bran, Free trade, organic, shade grown coffee and organic soy milk. The last time I tallied the cost over the course of a year’s consumption, it was around $650 for this household. I started my swap out with Kellogg […]
A Thousand Dollars Adds Up Fast
The “One in a Million” Campaign is urging a million women to shift $1,000 of money they’d spend in a year anyway to green products and services that can help protect the environment. Women are finding all kinds of ways to swap out “brown” products for “green.” Erin just sent the balance sheet she downloaded […]
Green Shopping Makes a Difference
Big Green Purse encourages women to make a difference in the marketplace because the marketplace is what ruins or restores the environment. The dynamic works like this: Women’s enormous consumer clout is critical to manufacturers’ success. Manufacturing to meet consumer demand drives pollution and climate change. Pollution and climate change affect our […]
Aurora Dairy Undercuts Consumer Confidence
One of the nation’s largest organic dairies must stop using the organic label on some of its products because it is not producing that milk organically. Aurora Organic Dairy provides the organic milk Wal-Mart, Costco, Wild Oats, Trader Joe’s and Safeway sell under their own brand names. The dairy agreed to make major changes in […]
Make the Shift: Phosphate-Free Dish Detergent
Phosphates were once widely used in laundry detergents. Due to their deteriorating impact on water quality (too much phosphorus creates suffocating algae blooms), the Federal government limited phosphorus content to 5% by weight in the 1970s. But guess what? There’s no restriction on the phosphorus content of diswashing detergents, which may contain as much as […]