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Do One Thing: For Earth Day, Buy Nothing.

This week’s Do One Thing is in honor of Earth Day, and it requires no effort at all. Just don’t buy anything “extra”. The amount of waste generated around the world because of consumer habits is astounding, and in the U.S. alone the typical American family throws out 2,460 pounds of paper, 540 [...]

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What It Doesn’t Mean To Be Green.

“It’s easy to go green!” goes the slogan, right? And in fact, it is quite easy to green up your lifestyle if you put your mind to it. There are those people who just change their light bulbs and then there are those people who choose to live off the grid, grow [...]

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Greenwash Of The Week: “Even Our Store Bags Are Disposable”.

Um yea, that’s because everything in this world is disposable. I think the words you are looking for are either “biodegradable”, “recyclable”, or “reusable” not “disposable”. Anyway, there is a store in Santa Fe, NM called Zoe & Guido’s Pet Boutique that sells pet supplies, and they ran this ad in the Santa Fe [...]

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Being Environmentally Conscious In A Consumer Conscious World.

While I am on my way home today from Colorado, this is a guest post from my friend Adam over at Twilight Earth. If you are not reading his stuff already, be sure to start doing so asap!
Madonna said it best when she said “I’m a material girl, living in a material world.” But the [...]

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