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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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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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Is It Really Green?
Advice for navigating the wild world of products with eco-claims |
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28 Jan 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Laundry detergent made from flowers! Cars that don't pollute! Potato chips fried in organic oils! These days, everything seems to be marketed with an eco-spin -- even products that are notoriously bad for people and the planet. So are companies truly seeing the green light, or are they just greenwashing? Photo: iStockphoto If green is the new black, then greenwashing -- the practice of putting an eco ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green cleaning, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Smear Tactics
A review of six hand and body lotions |
Katharine Wroth |
08 Jan 2008 |
The Bottom Line |
| January, 1993. I am a college freshman returning to school after the holiday break. Rushing upstairs to see my friends, I burst gleefully into a dorm room, only to have one of them greet me with horror. "Dude, what's wrong with your face?" Love the skin you're in. Until that moment, I hadn't known anything was wrong with my face. Sure, I had a dime-sized patch of dry skin on my right cheekbone. But I had ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Lumen Essence
A review of compact fluorescent bulbs |
Katharine Wroth |
14 Dec 2007 |
The Bottom Line |
| Worth the switch -- but which to pick? Photo: iStockphoto Part of our work here at Grist is to give advice to curious readers, and one thing we find ourselves saying a lot is, "Change those bulbs to CFLs!" But you can only socket to 'em so many times before such broad advice starts to seem a bit ... dim. So I've cranked up the Unofficial Grist Wringer and am ready to feed some of these notorious compact ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Big-Boxing Day
A gift guide for eco-minded shoppers headed to big-box stores |
Sarah van Schagen, Sarah K. Burkhalter |
19 Nov 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Sarah K. Burkhalter 19 Nov 2007 More Advice Looking for more holiday gift ideas? Check out our past gift guides: Gifts Recommended by Grist Staff and Readers Even More Gifts Recommended by Readers Gifts for Young Folk Gifts for Every Stereotype on Your List When it comes to gift-giving this holiday season, 'twould be best to give nothing at all but experiences and bits of wisdom. But if you happ ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, holiday, shopping (all these topics) |
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The Wipe Stuff
A review of recycled toilet-paper brands |
Sarah van Schagen |
06 Nov 2007 |
The Bottom Line |
| Time for a new roll, but what's your type? Photo: iStockphoto Deciding what kind of toilet paper to buy is a delicate issue. Perhaps most significantly because you want to protect those delicates -- but what about this delicate planet of ours? According to the NRDC, if every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll (500 sheets) of virgin-fiber toilet paper with 100 percent recycled TP, we'd save almo ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, shopping (all these topics) |
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Brit's Eye View: The future becomes us
Envisioning possible green futures helps create a greener future |
Peter Madden |
23 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. There has been much discussion lately of the need to turn the green agenda from a negative to a positive one. I think that an important part of this is developing some more positive visions of what living in a sustainable future might be like. My organization, Forum for the Future, has set itself this task. Partly because we think the ... |
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| Topics: placemaking, green living, consumerism, shopping, green products, business (all these topics) |
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Welcome Back, Potter
Final Harry Potter tome is 'greenest book in publishing history' |
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20 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Welcome Back, Potter Final Harry Potter tome is "greenest book in publishing history" Feel that crackle in the air? That's millions of Harry Potter fans trying not to fidget as they wait for the book's midnight release. (Or trying not to freeze, in the case of an Australian fan who was rescued after diving into a frigid lake to retrieve his pre-purchase receipt.) The final insta ... |
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| Topics: books, consumerism, green living, green products, news, shopping (all these topics) |
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We Are the Chumpions
When it comes to green products, who's zoomin' who? |
Bill Penrose |
21 Jul 2005 |
Soapbox |
| "I don't trust 'natural.' People are always dying of natural causes." -- Woman looking at food labels, in a Richard Guindon cartoon Roll playing games? Photo: Laura Cacho. Shoppers of the world, I have just one question: Are you an eco-chump? Lots of us try to shop green. We buy unbleached paper towels and recycled products, some with more than 5 percent post-consumer content. Comme ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, green living, green products, greenwashing, shopping (all these topics) |
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