Category: Green news

Did you know that of the many snacks in your grocery aisle, SunChips is one of the do-gooders for the environment? True to its name, SunChips’ Modesto, California plant uses the sun’s energy to produce SunChips. They buy green energy credits. Better yet, SunChips has less salt and 30% less fat than the other potato…

Flatscreen TVs and monitors are the ones that get all the love from people not just because of their sleek looks, but also because they use less energy. That practically makes them perfect, right? Er, maybe not so much. Listen in on a talk about how chemicals used in flatscreens could actually speed up global…

I’ve always loved chocolate milk, even when I was younger. But now I drink Horizon Organic‘s chocolate milk. According to the nutrition information, the ingredients are “Organic Grade A reduced fat milk, organic sugar, organic cocoa, natural vanilla flavor, carrageenan, salt, vitamin A palmitate and Vitamin D3”. They all sound familiar to me. What’s more,…

Choosing to eat locally grown, organic food is a healthful and eco-friendly thing to do. Now ice cream may not be the best type of food item for you, but you can do the right thing by buying organic ice cream. Apart from going organic, however, I realized that you can eat ice cream in…

Spotted this evening: the ongoing construction of LEED gold-certified Eleven Times Square.

Reusable bags are a favorite of mine, and we just received information about the ReJAVAnate reusable bag program. ReJAVAnate works with coffee roasters in the Northeast who obtain burlap from around the world. It also works with the ARC and allows people with developmental disabilities to create the bags. If you’re part of an organization…

Which do you think is the greener alternative, washing your car at home or taking it to a car wash? You might say that doing all your own car washing is greener because you can control the amount of water you use and you won’t be using any other equipment apart from a hose, rags,…

A good question was raised by Life Goggles in its blog post “How Many PhoneBooks Do you Get?” post. So yeah, how many phonebooks do you get? In my case, we get two – one covers our county, another one covers our city. Do we use it? Hardly. Once we get the new ones, do…

Life Goggles post “Google’s Products Go Green” led me to the Google Store‘s “The Green Initiative“. What IS “The Green Initiative”? “The Google Store is going green. We only have one Earth and we want to do our best to take care of her, so we’ve worked hard to make our store more eco-friendly. From…

Here’s another water bottle-related post from me. With all the traveling this 4th of July long weekend, I acknowledge that sometimes, we can’t bring our water bottles with us when we travel so we are forced to buy bottled water. In these situations, do consider Poland Spring. With their new Eco-Shape Bottle, at least they…