An email that arrived in my inbox this week called my attention and I decided to share it with you. It is about a DVD called The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. According to the producers, “the movie exposes the connections between a […]

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I recently went to a different coffee franchise: Bear Creek Coffee. The coffee was good. The atmosphere was great. Very relaxing. And when I got my small coffee in the little cardboard cup with the cardboard huggie around it, there was a small green piece of plastic sticking out of the […]

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It is probably the easiest change to integrate in your life when you adopt a greener lifestyle: ditching the plastic carrier bag. They are everywhere: caught up in the wind, clogging up sewerage systems, in the oceans and choking animals worldwide. All it takes is a minimum of organization to avoid them. Or shops being […]

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It must be quite evident for most of us that there is an over-packaging syndrome in the retail industry. When I look at the goods I purchase from conventional, non-organic stores, I find it shocking how much paper and plastic is used to unnecessarily wrap goods. The only people benefitting from this absurd situation are […]

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