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If the Target shirts are cheaper and don't need to be washed as often, you might consider the environmental costs. Often, these school uniform polos and pants are saturated in teflons and fire retardants that end up in your children's bodies, and in large fatty animals like polar bears and walruses when they migrate north in our environment. The best deals are had at second-hand stores. You can recycle sturdy clothing that has survived many washings and your kids are less at risk for being assauted by harmful industrial chemicals. I often find clothing from Europe, where the industrial standards are safer for humans and the environment. I'd much rather have my child in wrinkled clothes that are not harmful than looking prim in chemical-saturated clothing.
Here's a back-to-school guide that helps with school supplies purchase desicions:
http://ecohearth.com/eco-zine/kids-and-family/834-the-green-abcs-a-sustainable-back-to-school-guide.html
On Our addiction to cheap stuff has become very expensive, new book argues posted 3 months ago 24 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
And for the glitterati, the addiction to expensive is even more damaging to the planet:
http://ecohearth.com/eco-news/eco-op-ed/837-the-beast-of-bling-how-wearing-jewelry-harms-the-planet.html
On Our addiction to cheap stuff has become very expensive, new book argues posted 3 months, 1 week ago 24 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
Here's an intriguing interview with Mark Winne, who is championing efforts to close the food gap. The good news is that 10% of public schools in the US are participating in small farm to school projects. Let's boost it to 90%.
http://www.ecohearth.com/eco-zine/eco-heroes/824-closing-the-food-gap-an-interview-with-mark-winne.html
On Let's (re)do school lunch posted 3 months, 1 week ago 18 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
Cheap fossil fuel energy has huge costs, especially in national sacrifice zones, as the new documentary Split Estate compellingly illustrates:
http://www.ecohearth.com/eco-blogs/small-earth/810-rogue-corporations-and-the-split-estate.html
On Renewable energy is more exciting than cap-and-trade! posted 3 months, 1 week ago 3 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
As long as those new exchanges, new ideas and new sources of energy don't mean beating up on poorer nations in land-grabs and predatory farming, either for food or biofuel:
http://www.ecohearth.com/eco-news/eco-op-ed/489-defending-pachamama-equal-rights-for-the-earth.html
On Obama tells China the “ravages of climate change” demand cooperation posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago 1 Response