Author: The GU team

An Inconvenient Truth had a great deal to do with how the Sundance Film Festival is trying to prove its green credentials, it looks like. Read more about the latest developments here.

Yep, we all know companies are doing their darndest to show their customers that they really are being green, honest, but not all consumers are buying it. They think that companies’ claims of sustainability are just pure greenwash, or that they’re just trying to ride on the popularity of being eco-friendly. But what seems to…

Bottle deposits aren’t anything new where I’m from, and I believe the small neighborhood stores still do this over here. When I was a kid and the school cafeteria gave us refunds for each bottle of soda we brought back, I had no idea what the money was for. Bottle deposits go back a long…

Are you a catalog junkie? Or an innocent victim of junk mail? Ideal bite offers the following links/suggestions to get your name off mailing lists:Ecological Mail Coalition Native Forest Network Catalogchoice Directmail.com And to stop pre-approved credit card or insurance offers, OptOutPrescreen.com.

I stopped using battery-operated toothbrushes. But that means replacing your toothbrush every 3 months, and they all end up in landfills. I saw this online, a toothbrush with replaceable heads. You can just buy one handle and change the heads for each member of the family.

Moving? Sending fragile items by mail? Reuse your packaging materials or if you have no room to store them, you can find a packaging reuse program near you on The Plastic Loose Fill Council. For eco-friendly box fillers, U-Haul has biodegradable packing peanuts. If you love bubble wrap, the Barrier Bubble is made from recycled…

Then take a look at It’s A Green Green World. The website is basically a directory of the green accommodations found in countries all over the world. It looks like it still needs more to add to their lists–I mean, Thailand is the only Asian nation (barring Sri Lanka and India, which weren’t filed under…

According to scientists’ predictions, if unsustainable fishing methods continue, there could be no fish left by the year 2048. To make earth-friendly selections when you buy seafood or dine out, you can print a pocket seafood selector from Natural Resources Defense Council or Oceans Alive.A valuable tip from Ideal bite: Through Blue Ocean Fish Phone,…

I saw this story on my local CBS newscast the other night. We’ve all heard about websites offering carbon offsets to counterbalance your individual greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, there is no government oversight to make sure that your donation is going to the cause. The Federal Trade Commission is starting to look into these supposedly…

Found on Lorna Li’s website: An article written by Christophe Poizat, the founder of the International Network of Social Entrepreneurs. It’s entitled, “We Won’t be Doing Much Business on a Dead Planet.”