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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Show some enthusiasm for recycled TP
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
There’s a funny scene in the Larry David show Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry, and the displaced New Orleans family encamped in his house, wink and smirk over the toilet paper that his wife has installed in the bathrooms.
Being an environmentalist – as is her real life counterpart Laurie David – Cheryl David had outfitted the water closets with recycled TP. The running joke was that everyone had noticed the difference. And they weren’t in love with the experience.
Such is the reputation of recycled TP. Although, it seems as though I have successfully slipped it by my family. Has it gotten better (I think it has)? Or are they smirking behind my back? Probably a bit of both. I don’t really know, and it doesn’t matter because we won’t be returning to conventional stuff.
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Whole Foods Market announced today that it purchased 776 million-kilowatt-hours of renewable energy credits from wind farms — equal to 100 percent of its electricity use in its North American operations. The company said nearly 90 percent of this year’s purchase will help fund E.ON Climate & Renewables’ recently-completed Texas-based Panther Creek wind farm.
