BlogNews (February 28, 2012) “A budget is your roadmap to prosperity,” says Michelle Singletary in her book, The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom.
Why would that be the case? Budgets can keep us from spending more than we need, of course, since they set strict limits on unnecessary purchases. They can also help us save more, since the time we spend creating or revamping a budget is also a great…
BlogNews (February 27, 2012) One thing I’ve noticed as we’ve rolled out the idea of the 21-Day Financial Fast to our readers is that we have a lot of our more seasoned sustainability champions responding (often offline) with something like, “Well, I live my life like that every day.”
On the surface, it’s a lovely pick-me-up to think about all of those committed Green Americans out there, taking action…
BlogNews (February 21, 2012) Happy Day 2, financial fasters!
In our interview with Michelle Singletary about her 21-day financial fast, she suggested journaling to track your progress and to use as a tool to work through your challenges. Below are some suggested topics for this week.
Write down all those necessities you buy during the fast, which will help you assess whether they are truly necessities.
Make…
BlogNews (February 20, 2012) Could you go 21 days without buying ANYTHING? (Other than food and other true necessities, of course.) Could you that long go without using your credit cards at all?
That’s the question that Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary posed in her book The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom.
As we noted in our interview with Singletary in the January/February 2012…
BlogNews (February 14, 2012)
Very early, and not quite yet bright, we jumped in the car and headed north...for Hershey, PA. At 9:00am we met Jasper Perry-Anderson, a Philadelphia eighth grader who created an online petition encouraging the company to increase its commitment to ethically sourced cocoa to prevent abusive child labor on the cocoa farms from where it sources.
In just two weeks, Jasper's…
BlogNews (February 1, 2012) For the first time ever, Hershey is accepting responsibility for the problems in its cocoa supply chain — but only for one product in its vast line of chocolate. This baby-step by the biggest chocolate company in the US has renewed the call for the chocolate giant to go Fair Trade. Take action here, and learn more below:
Students gathered outside of the Hershey store in…
BlogNews (January 12, 2012) On September 15, Fair Trade USA (FTUSA), the United States’ labeling body for fair trade certified products announced that it would be leaving Fairtrade International (FLO), the international fair trade system. Previously, certification for fair trade has always happened under FLO, which includes a network of 19 national labeling initiatives around the world
Fair Trade USA cites…
BlogNews (December 22, 2011) The EPA just issued its long-awaited mercury rules, that will reduce the amount of mercury released by power plants by 90 percent. This is a huge victory for public health and the environment. The rules were 20 years in the making, and were fought by a number of utiltities (including Southern Company) and their allies in Congress. However, science was on the side of the EPA,…
BlogNews (December 12, 2011) You might think that the byproduct of burning coal -- which is laden with arsenic, selenium, mercury and lead -- might be bad for the environment and human health. And, since a giant coal ash impoundment in Tennessee burst three years ago, causing one of the greatest environmental disasters in US history, you might think it would be a good thing to increase regulations of these…
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