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Baby Got Back-to-School
A guide for greener back-to-school shopping |
Holly Richmond |
21 Aug 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Back-to-school shopping doesn't have to be an exercise in conspicuously ungreen consumption. Eco-friendly school supplies made of recycled and organic materials are easier than ever to find. One great place to start shopping is TheGreenOffice.com. And the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice has a handy back-to-school shopping guide that helps you avoid products containing polyvinyl chloride ... |
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| Topics: advice, consumerism, green living, green products, recycling, shopping (all these topics) |
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Register Your Beliefs
How to green your grocery list |
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05 Aug 2008 |
From A to Green |
| Make your list and check it twice. Lately, the world news has been filled with stories of hungry people struggling to feed themselves as food prices rise dramatically. Even in the U.S. and other wealthy countries, where the situation is not as dire, people have been altering their eating and spending habits to adjust to the higher bills. It can be hard to focus on eating greener when the very staples you need cost more than usu ... |
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| Topics: advice, consumerism, food, From A to Green, green living, shopping (all these topics) |
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Top 15 green brands
Gen Y chooses style over sustainability |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What companies do today's trendsetters consider to be the top 15 green brands? It's not who you might think ...A survey of 100 Gen Y'ers (born 1979-1993) asked which brands they perceived to be most eco-friendly. Here are the top 15:Whole FoodsTrader Joe'sToyotaHondaGoogleAvedaZipcarAmerican ApparelIkea7th GenerationAppleThe Body ShopStarbucksNetflixMethod The aim of the survey, the consulting firm said, was to 'discover which companies are going beyond the nich ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Wait till next year
Netroots Nation pledges to cut footprint ... in 2009 |
Miles Grant |
22 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Five pounds of stuff. That's what greeted me at this year's Netroots Nation '08 conference in Austin, Texas. As is the case with most conventions, registration came with a schwag bag loaded with magazines, pamphlets, and assorted trinkets from sponsors. I took the bag back to my hotel room and unpacked it one piece at a time, spreading the contents on my bed. (I actually had to stand on a chair to get a wide enough view to get all the schwag in one shot.) While ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, websites (all these topics) |
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Check out the carbon
Will eco-labeling contribute to consumer shopping confusion? |
Ben Tuxworth |
09 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. ----- British supermarket shoppers face increasingly bewildering claims about the ethical qualities of products. In one of retail giant Tesco's stores, shoppers can opt for goods branded with the Soil Association's organic standard, the Fairtrade Foundation's logo, the British Farm standard, or chain-of-custody marks from the ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, ecological footprint, food, green living, shopping, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Act Your Page
Should you add the latest green-living books to your library? |
Holly Richmond |
03 Jul 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| It's easy writing green, or so this year's deluge of eco-tippy books would indicate. But are any of the latest feel-good, change-a-light-bulb tomes decent? No doubt our own volume, Wake Up and Smell the Planet, is still No. 1 on your toilet tank -- but we thought we'd take a look at how the recent entries stack up, from the titillating to the downright doorstop-worthy. Going Green: A Wise ... |
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| Topics: advice, books, consumerism, ecological footprint, green living, shopping (all these topics) |
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The Green 'Zine Scene
A quick read on green lifestyle magazines |
Sarah van Schagen |
01 Jul 2008 |
The Bottom Line |
| Choices are good, but good choices are better. Periodically, I find myself wandering the ever-expanding magazine aisles at local newsstands and bookstores. And I'm often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of, well, volumes. You've got mags for every hobby, interest, celeb, fetish, and lifestyle. So when I set out to grab some light reading about light green, I expected to be inundated with options. ... |
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| Topics: advice, consumerism, green living, media, The Bottom Line (all these topics) |
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Me, at the Organic Summit
What should I ask -- or tell -- the (organic-cotton) suits at a fancy Colorado confab this week? |
Tom Philpott |
23 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Later this week, I'll be reporting from the Organic Summit in Boulder. Judging from the attendees list on the homepage, the summit brings together the shakers and movers behind what Michael Pollan has called 'industrial organic' -- the large-scale producers and processors that stock the shelves at Whole Foods and the organic sections at Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc. But the organizers seem intent on shaking things up. The speakers list ranges from Brahm Ahmadi of Oakland' ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, food, green living, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics) |
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When a bleach company cries 'sustainable'
The Clorox Co. leverages sustainability for growth |
Ashley Braun |
14 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| More green biz reporting from the Sustainable Brands '08 Conference. Even the Clorox Company, with $4.8 billion in sales last year, has set out to get a piece of the proverbial green apple pie that the conscious American consumer is becoming. Recognizing that sustainable products are no longer a wee e-niche market, Bill Morrissey, VP of Environmental Sustainability at Clorox, described the company's extensive research on what motivates a consumer's interest in th ... |
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| Topics: advertising, business, consumerism, green cleaning, green living, green products (all these topics) |
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A not-so-rosy review of Planet Green
Critic bashes new eco-tainment network |
Sarah van Schagen |
13 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I imagine some folks over at Planet Green are seeing red right about now. You would be too if someone suggested your new eco-cable network 'embarrasses the Earth.' It's the first really negative review of Planet Green I've seen, and it was penned by Slate television critic Troy Patterson. The entire review can pretty much be summed up with this: 'Planet Green turns the entire Earth into a lifestyle accessory, often to uniquely awful effect.'Patterson goes on to ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, consumerism, fashion, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Flock Together
New climate campaign aimed at U.S. consumers |
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05 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:30 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A European campaign to raise consumer awareness of climate change has made its U.S. debut. The Together campaign -- not to be confused with the similarly named-and-agendaed "we" campaign -- was initiated by the nonprofit Climate Group and kicked off in the U.S. by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Var ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, consumerism, environmental movement, green living, messaging, news (all these topics) |
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Ounce For Ounce
On buying eco-products in bulk |
Umbra Fisk |
14 May 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Why can't I find environmentally friendly products (laundry soap, shampoo, etc.) in bulk packaging? It seems like there are many companies that make products that are not so hard on the planet, but they are only sold in little tiny containers, which of course increases packaging. I would love to find eco-friendly laundry soap in a five-gallon bucket ... after all, if I think clean clothes are important today, wh ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, consumerism, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Where in the World?
Brazilians and Indians are the greenest, says survey |
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08 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:29 PM on 08 May 2008 Brazilians and Indians are the most eco-friendly folks in the world, and Canadians and Americans are the least, according to a new survey done by the National Geographic Society. Consumers in 14 countries, representing more than half of the world's population and about three-quarters of its energy use, were ranked on their sustainability in the areas of housing, transportation, food, and co ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, Canada, China, consumerism, green living, India, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Lipstick Bungle
An interview with Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics |
Katharine Wroth |
02 May 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Stacy Malkan. Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. But given the load of toxic chemicals in everyday products like shampoo, deodorant, and makeup, that superficial truth is still cause for concern. With increasing frequency, studies point to hidden dangers in the medicine cabinet: things like lead in lipstick, phthalates in baby lotions, aluminum in deodorant. While the am ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, grassroots activism, green living, health, interview, shopping, toxics (all these topics) |
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It came from the mall
Bag Monsters to educate shoppers on evils of plastic bags |
Holly Richmond |
15 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Lunchtime shoppers, beware: if you're toting your purchases in a plastic bag in one of twelve cities tomorrow, you might encounter a Bag Monster. From your worst shopping-related nightmares the 'you can't make this stuff up' file comes a creation of cosmetics company Lush to support the ban of plastic bags and to raise awareness of their wastefulness. 'Each bag monster, which resembles a walking, talking trash heap, is made of 350 plastic bags -- the amount of ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, shopping, waste (all these topics) |
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Stuff kills
Chinese miners and our appetite for cheap crap |
Tom Philpott |
01 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As the United States has outsourced its industrial base to China over the last two decades, millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared. But the trend has also allowed us to shed a lot of unpleasantness: industrial waste, air pollution, etc. The move also eased the burden on our electrical grid. The energy needed to produce clothes, electrical gadgets, industrial equipment, etc. no longer comes from our power generators. But greenhouse gases are a fungible sub ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, consumerism, economy, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, mining (all these topics) |
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Different Beasts
On organic vs. natural foods |
Umbra Fisk |
31 Mar 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I'm trying to convince my sister that there is a difference between all-natural and organic products, and she doesn't think there is. I'm pretty sure there is a difference, I just don't know what it is. I look at the ingredients of some of the food she buys that she says are "natural" and I wonder how these products are able to claim that! What are the qualifications for something to be labeled all-natu ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, consumerism, food, green living, green products, organic food, shopping (all these topics) |
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Breaking polar bear news
Plush toys recalled due to fire hazard |
Sarah van Schagen |
29 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Polar bears soon to be extinct due to risk of overheating! |
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| Topics: consumerism, funnies, green living, shopping (all these topics) |
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Collared Greens
How to green your pet |
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18 Mar 2008 |
From A to Green |
| Can man's best friend be a friend to the planet, too? Photo: iStockphoto Without pets, the world would be such a pale, less playful version of itself. No Wallace and Gromit videos. No Fluffy purring in our laps or Fido fetching his Frisbee. No cheerful creatures welcoming us home and adoring us unconditionally. (OK, we'd still have mom.) So we love them, there's no getting around it. But can we lighten the eco-pawprint of our pets? Why yes, w ... |
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| Topics: advice, animal welfare, consumerism, From A to Green, green living (all these topics) |
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Fighting Dirty
An interview with the founders of Method green home-care products |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Mar 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| After spending a few minutes with Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, I began to wonder if they weren't part of a modern-day adaptation of The Odd Couple. The 30-something founders of the Method line of home-care products, friends since high school, are about as different as two business partners could be. Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry. Lowry (Method's "chief greens keeper") is tall and l ... |
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| Topics: art, business, consumerism, green cleaning, green living, green products, innovation, interview (all these topics) |
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Prices aren't the only things being dropped
Wal-Mart discontinues selling green PC in stores |
Jerome Woody |
12 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Remember the gPC? It's Everex's $199 'green' Linux computer, the one Wal-Mart stocked up on during the last holiday season. Well, it seems the 'experiment' is over, with an unsatisfied Wal-Mart putting those famous price-cutting scissors on their plan to sell the cheap PC in their stores. According to the AP, Wal-Mart concluded that their middle-American consumer base was not hip to the gPC's Linux-based operating system. However, seeing the appeal of the computer to ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, tech, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Brit's Eye View: Young, gifted, and green?
New survey of U.K. youth reveals mixed attitudes about the future of the planet |
Ben Tuxworth |
05 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Debates about how we should save the planet tend to explore the impossibility of almost every approach until someone says, 'We need to change the education system,' at which point it is deemed churlish to snigger. Catch 'em young, and it's job done seems to be the hope. Well, with only 100 months of planet-saving time left, ac ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, consumerism, green living, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Of Vice and Men
Grist puts a green eye to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll |
Sarah van Schagen |
22 Feb 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Photo: iStockphoto "Sex and drugs and rock and roll are very good indeed." -- Ian Dury Green may be the flavor of the week, the word du jour, the go-to adjective for everyone from ad execs to activists -- but between you and me, researching all the do's and don'ts of eco-sainthood can get a bit heavy. In the midst of all this sobering work, sometimes a gal (even a green one) just w ... |
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| Topics: advice, consumerism, funnies, green living, music, sex (all these topics) |
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Blood and chocolate
Fortune mag: widespread poverty and child labor in the cocoa-producing world |
Tom Philpott |
19 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| While I was waxing euphoric last week about Fair Trade and ultra-fancy chocolate ahead of Valentine's Day, interesting things were happening in the chocolate world.Regulators in Germany raided the offices of seven corporate chocolate makers -- including Nestle, Kraft, and Mars -- investigating allegations of price fixing. Six food conglomerates process half of the world's cocoa, giving them tremendous leverage on price. Usually, they use their market power to squeeze fa ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, consumerism, food, green living (all these topics) |
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Letter to the editor: forest certification
Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to Grist's green-buying tips |
Grist |
12 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here is a letter to the editor from Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc., written in response to our article featuring tips for buying green products and avoiding greenwashed ones. ----- Dear Editor: I am writing in response to an article that your website ran titled 'Is It Really Green?' It was disappointing to read your statement about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative StandardŽ (SFIŽ). The fact is, SFI is an independent nonprofit organization and ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, deforestation, green living, greenwashing, logging (all these topics) |
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