green consumer

My Eco-Goals for the New Year

January 1, 2011

To end out December 2010 I posted 5 insanely easy green New Year’s goals for families who are newer to green living. Plus, we started looking at some harder green challenges for more experienced eco-families – a list that I’ll finish up this week at some point. However, I didn’t post my own New Year’s [...]

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Five 2011 Eco-Challenges for More Experienced Green Families

December 30, 2010

In the last post I listed 5 insanely easy New Year’s goals for families who are newer to green living. However, I know plenty of you are not new to green living. If you’ve got some eco-experience, as a family, then you’re ready for some harder challenges during the upcoming year. Now to make these [...]

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Five Insanely Easy New Year’s Goals for Families New to Green Living

December 30, 2010

If you’re looking to go green this year, without a ton of fuss, you can! Many green goals take time, skill and willpower. However, there are also plenty of green New Year’s goals you can make that seriously take almost no effort, few funds and use up very little time. Following are some of the [...]

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Ten excellent ways to raise a greedy consumer-driven child

November 28, 2010

I see a lot of greedy stuff-obsessed kids this time of year. Well, to be fair, I see greedy consumer-driven adults too. But the kids make me more depressed. In any case, this always makes me think that maybe people like and want consumer driven kids around. If you’re thinking, “Yeah I sure do” then [...]

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USA Senators Want Babies to Have BPA!

November 20, 2010

This week, some lovely, but really not shocking developments on the BPA front. On Thursday, the Senate was supposed to vote on the food-safety bill. Not only did Senate fail to vote, but they withdrew an included amendment that would have banned BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups. Oh, USA Senators – you’re so [...]

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Stuff to do on Black Friday that does not involve shopping

November 18, 2010

According to a retail trade group survey released on Thursday, as many as 138 million U.S. shoppers may be heading out for Black Friday events. That’s a lot of shoppers to weave in and out of. Why not try Buy Nothing Day this year instead? Buy Nothing Day is a push to combat the overwhelming [...]

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Green Consumer Tips for Kids & Teens!

November 10, 2010

Kids and teens are major consumers in the United States. For example, kids under 14 years of age spend about $40 billion annually while teens spend about $159 billion. And that’s just the tip of what’s a very large consumer iceberg. Parents can help make a huge impact by simply trying to avoid consumerism, but [...]

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Buy Nothing Day – November 26th 2010

November 1, 2010

It’s November which means a huge event is coming, and I don’t mean Thanksgiving. Buy Nothing Day falls on November 26th this year (in the USA). I celebrate this event every year, and hopefully you’ll be on board to celebrate as well. What is Buy Nothing Day? Buy Nothing Day is an alternative event you [...]

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50 groups sign on to fight pro-pesticide campaign

October 7, 2010

In case you missed it, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) recently handed over $180,000 in cold hard cash to the Alliance For Food and Farming. Why? So that said Alliance could launch a massive campaign meant to educate consumers on the safety of pesticides. Nice right? In any case, as you might [...]

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Stick it to fake organic products!

August 12, 2010

When I was 13 or so I read a book about women’s rights. In said book there was an order form for some awesome, “This offends women” stickers. You could use these stickers in stores, on products, a person – to label lame anti-female stuff. I loved my stickers. I know, I got started young [...]