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Climate Counts Back-2-Cool Campaign

Posted on Aug 12, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

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It won’t be long before we’ll start seeing Back-2-School advertisements again. Back-2-School campaigns seem like relatively harmless advertising campaigns, right? Maybe not. Back-2-School season actually creates more revenue for the US’ top 100 companies than any other time of year other than the holiday shopping season. And, as with all advertising campaigns, Back-2-School advertising campaigns try to get you to buy stuff you don’t need. The amount of wasteful, polluting consumerism that occurs during Back-2-School season is surely quite significant, and even more so if you aren’t buying green products from green companies.

If you are interested in lightening your impact on the planet when the Back-2-School campaigns kick in, leading environmental organization Climate Counts has launched a great Back-2-Cool campaign to help you do so.

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iQ Cleaning Supplies: The Smarter Clean

Posted on Aug 03, 2010 by Scott James.

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When you want to be eco-friendly in your household chores, every little bit helps. Many manufacturers are working to reduce packaging for their products, and iQ cleaning supplies has a simple and innovative approach to reducing packaging and transportation costs, while providing an eco-friendly cleaning product. They sell small cartridges of plant-based concentrate, and all you have to do is fill up a spray bottle with tap water and insert the cartridge.
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Protect Our Babies from Toxic Chemicals

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

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One of the biggest environmental topics of the century might well be the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (and the toxic dispersants being used to “clean it up”). However, another one that some say might have a bigger impact on our babies than the BP oil spill but that is off the major media radar is a strong Safe Chemicals Act. Jeffrey Hollender, Chief Inspired Protagonist (CIP) of Seventh Generation, says, “this is probably the most important piece of legislation — for Seventh Generation’s goals — that has come up in over 2 decades.”

If you’re not familiar with Seventh Generation, it is one of the greenest companies on the planet, offering all sorts of green cleaning products to keep our babies safe and healthy for generations to come. It takes its name from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy, which is: “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”

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Gardening on School Roofs

Posted on Jun 03, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

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You’ve probably heard of green roofs before. And if you have, you’ve probably even thought of the possibility of gardening on your own roof. But this project below by a group of teachers, parents and green roof advocates brings us one step further.

A large school building in the Lower East Side of New York City that houses elementary schools P.S. 64 and the Earth School as well the Tompkins Square Middle School is going to be fitted with a green roof and gardening on this green roof is going to become part of the schools’ curricula. Courses in science and nutrition will make use of the green roof. Furthermore, vegetables the children grow on the green roof will be used in the cafeteria.
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5 Ways to Green Your Wedding

Posted on Jun 02, 2010 by Scott James.

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Summer is here, and that means the beginning of two seasons- barbecue and wedding season. Both my roommate and I spent a few hours this weekend booking flights for weddings all around the country, and it got me thinking about how much energy, both from planning and resources, goes into a wedding. So I went looking for ways to make a wedding more eco-friendly- so here are…
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