I spotted this article on Grist's website -- glad to see it here too.

Let's hope other grocery stores, and for that matter other major retailers (K-Mart, Target, Sears are you listening?) follow Whole Foods' example.

Carrying cloth bags is an easy, principled thing we can all do. In India, plastic bags are an even bigger environmental disaster, because so many people are in the habit of throwing their trash wherever they happen to be standing at the moment. So it's pretty cool that a hot, young clothing designer has taken on the cloth bag revolution by injecting high-fashion, ease-of-use, and distribution within the gift-economy. The story is utterly inspiring: http://memestreamblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/small-steps/

Bless their hearts. Plastic bags at grocery stores are nothing more than the petroleum industry figuring out a way to dump their waste products on someone else. I see more and more of this happening and I'm grateful.

Bummer! Whole Foods' bags are the only ones strong enough to actually be re-usable.

We've been having a run on the reusable grocery bags we sell on Delight.com. They are big, strong, super lightweight and very stylish. Not free of course but a great alternative.

Well it's really nothing new, grocery stores use to only have paper bags which I find better to reuse for garbage bags anyway. As for collecting dog poop what did ya do before plastic bags, besides teach your dogs (the woodhouse way-hurry up-google it folks) to poop in a space in YOUR yard not everyone else's (and btw get em to shut up and bark only at burglars not at everyone-it's so f**ing annoying in a quiet neighborhood).

I shop at Whole Paycheck, so now what am I supposed to pick my dog's doo up with when we go for walks?