By Sommer Saadi
Green Right Now
As I unloaded my groceries onto the conveyor belt, I realized I was buying more than could fit in my reusable bags.
“Can you try to fit everything in these?” I asked, handing over my assortment of canvas totes.
“I can try,” the cashier answered. “But it’s no big deal, I can just use plastic bags for whatever we can’t fit into the ones you brought.”
“Oh no,” I said. “No plastic bags. Please.”
She stared back at me. She had already stretched out a plastic bag and was ready to load.
“I have this thing,” I told her. “I just really hate plastic bags.”
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February 17th, 2009
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
It seems just a hop and a skip from a reusable shopping tote to a purse made of 
recycled goods. Yet so often in the past, the recycled version was self-consciously slouchy or worse, fussy and over-designed, not to mention overpriced.
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November 24th, 2008
By Barbara Kessler and Julie Bonnin
Green Right Now
Tis’ the season to be…conservative? Afraid so. As the economic downturn and the need to better care for our planet converge into a new aesthetic, we are facing an unusual holiday season. We can show we care with holiday gifts that help us all to consume less.
This might seem the antithesis of consumerism, too bah humbug to be any fun. But we think you’ll see that we’re talking about smarter consuming; buying durable goods that cut out the disposables, forsaking chemical-laden items and making some of your own stuff, whether its soda or energy. Read on:
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Related Topics: · bamboo utensils, Ghana baskets, Green Christmas gifts, green gifts, holiday, Klean Kanteen, LaChambra cookware, Penguin Soda Maker, reusable bags, SIGG, SolarGorilla, soy candles, Voltaic solar panel mesenger bag
June 23rd, 2008
But Some Confused About Eco-Choices
By Barbara Kessler
Ever wonder what your neighbors are doing on the green front – what with one fellow dragging four nicely sorted recycling bins to the curb every other week, and another seemingly sitting out the green movement?
So did the Nature Conservancy and the people running the Harris Poll. They collaborated on a poll that found about half of Americans (53 percent) are making green changes, but a significant number (
34 percent) said they’ve not made any changes because they are confused about what to do. Another large group (29 percent) said they are not making changes because it won’t make any difference.
Education seemed to play a role in who was confused, fatalistic or moving toward more sustainable practices. Just under half of high school educated respondents (46 percent) said they had made green changes as compared with college educated adults (65 percent).
Of the total 53 percent who had made changes, the poll elicited these responses:
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Related Topics: · buy local, Carpool, carpooling, driving less, Harris Poll, Local Food, Pay bills online, Recycle & Reuse, reusable bags
