If it’s wintertime where you live, then you know what that means – it’s time to bring out the supplies needed to treat a cold! Cold and flu season brings on all sorts of maladies, from the sniffles all the way to the flu and pneumonia. But the most common aiment people come down with [...]
Sometimes you have to go back to the basics, right? Well, as I have mentioned a few times lately, going green doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, you can actually save a lot of money by greening your life, rather than spending a ton. Marketing tricks and television advertising do their best to convince [...]
As I am sure many of you have figured out already, I have a rather strong aversion to shopping just for the sake of buying green and so-called “enviro” orgs like The Nature Conservancy taking millions of dollars from corporate polluters. I discuss these kinds of issues here and on Twitter because I truly believe [...]
Article by Luis Rosario If cleanliness is next to godliness, then we have a lot of work to do if we want to enter the pearly gates. From carbon emissions to plastic containers washing up on our beach shores, our waste production keeps on going up as our global population increases. It’s pretty obvious what [...]
There’s a double standard in many people’s lives today. At home they carefully toss cans and bottles to the blue bin, stacking the newspaper beside it, conscious not to put anything recyclable into the trash. That same person often turns into a waste machine when they get to work, printing out long reports on one [...]
Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. Since the first “sins of Greenwashing” study was published in 2007, the world has re-awakened to the issue of false and misleading environmental claims. Although we at terrachoice have [...]
Calling all high school students! Planet Connect has partnered with Staples to host the third Get Green Video Contest, a national contest designed for high school students aged 14 to 19 to display their creativity and environmental knowledge while helping to inspire the public and their peers. Through the innovative use of your Science, Technology, [...]
