Welcome to a new way to think about green. Why are we doing this? Well, we can all agree that it's important that we all work to leave a better planet to our children, but how do we do that?!
"Greenness" has become a very over-used term, and beyond the buzzwords of carbon footprint, energy conservation, recycling, CFL bulbs, and the like, most of us are not really sure what we should be doing.
What better way than to open up to a community of like-minded people sharing and evaluating ideas about how to manage this effort!
Plus, we'd like to call BS on those people and organizations that might trumpet some of their "wins" so that they can gloss over their more severe environmental crimes. There's even a term for that nowadays - "greenwashing".
Anyway, take a look and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.
Yesterday, Layla and I went
Yesterday, Layla and I went about boycotting various food companies and today we are moving on to the boycotts of retailers who have less than stellar records with the environment. Once again, we use the same website we used yesterday for our list. We focus on North American companies that are actually available to us and companies that actually have a play in our lives (hence no Mattel, since we don't buy toys)
* Colgate-Palmolive: Dropping hazardous waste in New Jersey means we won't be using this company for anything in our lives. We use natural toothpastes anyways.
* J. Crew: This company has been fined $1.4 million for discharging ten million tons of waste in the past two years.
* Home Depot: This cisco training mega-company carries virtually no non-toxic, poison-free lawn and garden products in their stores. For all our home hardware needs, including making things for Our Green Year, we won't be going to Home Depot