Blog/News (November 21, 2011) This article, by Andrew Schein and Kara Turtinen, originally appeared in the September/October 2011 issue of the Green American. Visit the Green America Web site to subscribe to the Green American.
When Tim O’Neil approached fellow Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association member Stephanie Stewart in 2009 about starting a solar buying cooperative in their suburban Portland community,…
Blog/News (November 21, 2011) OK, ladies, let’s go there.
(Gentlemen, I’d tell you to look away, but this is important information for the women you care about, too.)
Over 12 billion single-use tampons make their way to landfills each year. One look at the feminine hygiene section of your local drugstore will tell you that most women’s tampon of choice in the US is individually packaged in plastic, with a…
Blog/News (November 21, 2011) The weekend of November 12 and 13, I traveled to San Francisco to work at our 10th annual Green Festival there. On the way back to Washington, DC, I traveled through my hometown in Kentucky for a family visit, and I’m only just now arriving back home. With the goal of an even more plastic-free life before me for the entire month of November, my ten days of traveling brought me…
Blog/News (November 17, 2011) As Green America senior writer Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist reported in her "Plastic(-free) Monday" blog post last week, there's a problem with toxic chemicals in our canned food.
The problem is bisphenol-A (BPA), a common additive in plastic products, including the plastic inner linings of food cans. BPA is an endocrine disruptor that has been linked to an array of frightening health…
Blog/News (November 15, 2011) Happy America Recycles Day! On November 15th, communities across the country are celebrating protecting our planet through recycling. Every day of the year, Green America’s Better Paper Project helps publishers use recycled paper in place of environmentally-damaging virgin paper. In this short video, you can learn about Tricycle Magazine’s green journey towards sustainable…
Blog/News (November 14, 2011)
So, it’s been three weeks since the Green America editors started our challenge to purge “stupid plastic” from our lives. The “Take the Plastic Challenge” issue of the Green American should be hitting your mailboxes—or perhaps you’ve already received your issue. If you’ve had the chance to read it, let us know what you think!
As I’ve worked to get the unnecessary plastic out of…
Blog/News (November 10, 2011) The Obama administration announced today that it has put its decision on whether to build the Keystone XL Pipeline on hold indefinitely (and at least until after the 2012 election). This is a big victory for all the people across the country who took action to oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline, including Green America’s individual and business members. The State Department has said…
Blog/News (November 7, 2011) Most of us are all too familiar with the dangers of bisphenol-A (BPA), which has been used commonly as an additive in plastic products. BPA, which is an endocrine disruptor linked to an assortment of frightening health effects, including heart disease, reproductive problems, and cancer, started making headlines a few years ago when study after study indicated that BPA can leach…
Blog/News (November 3, 2011) October is a busy time for chocolate sales. According to The Nielsen Company, Americans purchase an estimated 90 million pounds of chocolate each Halloween.
Spreading the word in Niagara Falls.
October is also a busy time if you are campaigning for human rights in the cocoa sector. We’ve spent the last month bringing together an increasing number of consumers who care that…
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