Too Little, Too Late

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Now that the plastic bag industry has been under pressure from consumers, environmental advocates and even retailers, they’ve decided to throw us a bone.  Big announcement.  By 2015, 80% to the plastic bag makers are going to give us bags made from 40% recycled content.  Do they honestly think something like this is going to keep […]

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Battling Consumer Man

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I’ve been trying to become more environmentally friendly, but my husband just hasn’t been interested.  That certainly makes it an uphill climb.  Sometimes that hill looks like Mt. Everest.  It’s a slow climb, but I refuse to sit down and give up.  I’ve been replacing our light bulbs with CFL’s.  I exchanged bulbs in a […]

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