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Kroger decides organic confusion is the way to go

November 1, 2011

So, yesterday I grab the mail, start sorting it and notice a huge Fred Meyer flier.  Fred Meyer is our local Kroger store here in PDX and we shop there often. Here’s the flier below… The flier states: “What’s the easiest way to enjoy all natural and organic? Keep it Simple. Naturally Preferred and Private [...]

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A friendly reminder to avoid pinkwashing during Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 9, 2011

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is celebrating it’s 25th year this October. That’s cool, and it’s great, obviously, to support such a worthwhile cause. That said, make sure your money and time are used to help find a cure, vs.  simply stuffing the pockets of pinkwashing companies. Many companies launch pink products galore during October, but [...]

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Do Famous Environmental Activists Owe Consumers Anything?

April 9, 2011

I don’t have cable television, which means I miss stuff, like commercials that feature eco-model/author/activist Summer Rayne Oaks as the new face of Aveeno. I found out after seeing a tweet about a Greenwala post on the topic. I looked around a bit more to make sure, and found that, yup, Oaks is working with [...]

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What’s up in the green world

November 5, 2010

I’ve been working on a post about unschooling, but it’s taking a while, so for now, let’s take a look at some current happenings and other neat eco-stuff… HELPFUL: TerraChoice just released their new The Sins of Greenwashing: Home and Family Edition, which provides tips to consumers, marketers, and manufacturers about how to identify and [...]

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What to do about annoying greenwashing bloggers?

October 7, 2010

I run into greenwashing bloggers from time to time. Usually they just irk me a bit. But the blogger I saw tonight took the whole freaking cake and really made me insane. In fact, unless I post about it, I’ll probably just sit around and vent on the inside, which yeah, isn’t healthy. In any [...]

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Are pink products making you and the planet sick?

October 7, 2010

So, the other day my sister freaked out a little on Facebook. She was upset due to a post at Forbes where a woman blogger, in my sister’s words, “Bashes buying pink products to support breast cancer“. That’s true. This blogger was pretty much bashing pink products. Said blogger notes… “Breast cancer awareness month has [...]

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A word about stuff and how darn hypocritical I may seem

June 25, 2010

I’m always saying, “BUY LESS STUFF!” Why am I always saying this? Because I’m a huge Buy Nothing Day advocate; and it would look pretty lame for me to be like, “Hey, the rest of the year buy away!“ Because having a lot of stuff is not eco-friendly. Because too much stuff is not very [...]

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Green Glossary: Greenwashing

June 14, 2010

I talk my head off about greenwashing here at Growing a Green Family and yet I recently realized that I’ve failed to define it. That might be helpful, right? Greenwashing is an extremely complicated topic, depending on who you ask. There are die-hard examples of greenwashing I can point out but many people tend to [...]

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Ten incredibly lame disposable products to help trash your footprint

June 14, 2010

There are all sorts of super lame products on the market, some more footprint trashing than others.  With this in mind it’s very easy to live a trash heavy life – if you so choose. Following are ten of the best products to buy if your goal happens to be anti-eco. 1. Of course the [...]

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What’s on your green wish list?

June 7, 2010

There are a lot of things I wish were different about eco-friendly living. For example, less greenwashing, better more standard eco-labeling, MUCH better organic food certification, more independent eco-friendly companies (i.e. not owned by a big corp.), better green product reviews (as the norm) for consumers and soooooo much more. However, all of the above [...]

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