plastic bottles filling landfills, bottled water not being discernable from tap water, and a waste of oil. Re-introduce yourself to tap water…
Posts Tagged as ‘consumerism’
August 19, 2008
U.S. credit card crisis – We’ve been given another shovel to keep digging
The credit card industry has given consumers a large shovel to dig themselves deeper into the worst kind of debt one can own. Masked as a service for credit card owners to earn rewards points, travel miles, and the like, services are currently being offered that will allow you to pay your mortgage on a credit [...]
August 14, 2008
My dish soap weighs in on oil conservation
Straight from the back of my Seventh Generation dish soap to my blog,
If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 25 oz. petroleum-based dish washing liquid with a plant derived product, like Seventh Generation’s, we could save 86,000 barrels of oil. That’s enough to heat 4,900 homes for a year.
Conservation, what [...]
August 7, 2008
Sunscreen: Don’t trust the labels and know the FDA is failing us
Recent work from the Environmental Working Group finds that among 952 sunscreen products on the market, 4 out of 5 do not provide adequate protection or contain questionable ingredients. Yikes. From their cosmetic database site:
Leading brands were the worst offenders: None of market leader Coppertone’s 41 sunscreen products met EWG’s criteria for safety and effectiveness, and [...]
August 6, 2008
The Indianapolis Zoo: Empowering Hoosiers for Environmental Change
“We are the cause.”
I smiled when I read this environmentally progressive declaration from a Hoosier organization, specifically the Indianapolis Zoo’s My Carbon Pledge campaign. The pledge is simple. Replace old incandescent bulbs with CFLs (now you see why Lowe’s is involved, eh?) to reduce overall CO2 emissions. It’s nothing new, really, for those who are even moderately interested [...]
July 29, 2008
hey, don’t forget about this
The floating trash island in the pacific that weighs 3.5 million tons of which 80% are DISPOSABLE PLASTIC BAGS. Don’t forget about this during your next ho-hum menial trip to the store. You + me * a couple hundred million people are doing this.
June 8, 2008
The American Power Consumer
NPR’s Marketplace had a piece on perceived gaffes ad agencies make when marketing products to women. Gaffes that, according to the commentator Andrea Gardner, appear to be less offensive to today’s 20 something woman than the mid-20s female of yesterday. This was presented with an anecdotal soundbite that was only somewhat effective (which seems representative of [...]
