Category: Green news

Seventh Generation offers chlorine-free diapers, wipes and training pants. They don’t contain fragrances, latex or other toxic chemicals. Chlorine-bleached materials contribute to dioxin pollution, thus increasing the risk for cancer, birth defects and reproductive disorders. Go to Weegeneration to find non-toxic baby products and raise a healthy child.

Do you live with people who leave the lights on in practically every room? Sure, you can remind them to turn off the lights when they leave the room. I read about a “Lights Off Fund” somewhere while surfing the net. Every time someone at home forgets to turn off the lights, they have to…

I’ve been threatening to buy a new mobile phone for ages, and have been in love with a particular phone since last year. So just to check things out, my boyfriend and I headed to Greenhills last weekend to see what they have and how much phones cost these days. And we stumbled onto this…

From Better World Club: Many appliances still use up energy even when switched off. For example, 25% of the electricity a television set uses is consumed when it is not even on. The only way to ensure that your appliance is not using power is to unplug it. You can also plug it into a…

One day before the start of this year’s United Nations General Assembly, world leaders had a carbon-neutral summit on climate change. It was meant to pave the way for talks in Bali, Indonesia this December, where nations will discuss post Kyoto Protocol emissions rules. The Kyoto treaty expires in 2012. On “The Daily Show with…

from Ideal Bite: For those special occasions, send cards made from sustainable paper or even better, e-cards. Only a small percentage of the 2.65 billion cards purchased in the U.S. annually are made from recycled paper. Pop-up Mountain cards, Letterfu, Sappycards, Loop Doodlespark Notecards offer earth-friendly alternatives.

At last! The supermarket we frequently shop at released a newsletter last month and for the first time, they actually provided their e-mail address and contact numbers. Naturally, I had to e-mail them to commend them on the great job they’re doing with the establishment’s renovation and to inquire if they will ever consider offering…

As briefly mentioned in my previous post, I read that biodegradable items do not really break down in landfills. The landfills are packed so tightly that there is little oxygen and few microbes that are supposed to speed up the biodegradation process. The materials also may not break down because of the processing they went…

Should you buy and use products labeled “biodegradable”? According to About.com, there are no specific guidelines for companies to follow before they can label a product “biodegradable”, and no organization overseeing the use of such claims. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) states that only products that contain materials that “break down and decompose into…

Here’s another one of them scary games that will make you cringe about your lifestyle: Consumer Consequences. This should be a wake-up call and should get you to start living more simply. I don’t really think it’s entirely appropriate for where I live, especially since few to no recycling facilities exist, households usually contain more…