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What Green Consumer Polls Should Really Be Asking

Jacquelyn Ottman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Green Products, Green Consumers, Green Marketing, Business Sustainability, Environment, Marketing, Sustainability, Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Green News

Ever since the resurgence of environmentalism in 1990, consumer polls have attempted to measure awareness, attitudes and behaviors towards environment...

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10 Simple Rules To Live By: Make Choosing Non-Toxic Skin Care Easy

Deborah Burnes | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Green Products, Understanding Labels, Beauty and Skin, Non Toxic Products, Natural Personal Care, Green Beauty, Natural Products, Non Toxic Beauty, Healthy Living News

Understanding the ingredients in personal care products can become so overwhelming and confusing we tend to shut down.

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Skepticism of Green Marketing -- Big Trouble When Addressing Latinos

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Latina, Latino Entrepreneur, Hispanic Market, Green Products, Green Marketing, Greenwashing, Latino, Business Sustainability, Sustainable Packaging, Consumer Behavior, Chicago Business, Latino Consumers, Green News

The American Latino consumer community is a highly skeptical community, generally speaking, but one with deep cultural connections to the earth, to creative reuse and to conservation.

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Corporations Plan for Post-Middle-Class America

Bernard Starr | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Corporate Profits, Middle Class, Corporations, Green Products, Middle Class America, Depleting Middle Class, Corporate America, Business News

American business has eliminated untold numbers of other middle class jobs. That's why the employment and housing markets are struggling, food stamp use is at an all-time high and the ranks of the working poor are swelling, while corporate profits soar.

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Understanding "Green" Product Labels

Women & Co | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Green, Environmentally Friendly Products, Green Living, Green Cleaning Products, Cleaning, FTC Green Guidelines, Eco-Friendly Cleaning, Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Products, Green Products, Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products, Chemicals, Cleaning Products, Green News

How do you decide which cleaning products to use in your home? Clearly the effectiveness of the products we use is important, but what about their impact on the environment?

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Why I Started The Honest Company

Jessica Alba | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Small Business, Children, Green, The Honest Company, Raising Children, Eco-Friendly, Entrepreneurs, Toxic Chemicals, Small Business America, Startup, Green Products, Eco-Friendly Products, Raising a Child, Nontoxic Products, Parents, Small Business News

As a new parent, I desperately needed a place where I could get all my daily essentials -- from diapers to cleaning products -- and I could trust that they would be safe, eco-friendly, affordable, and effective. So I decided to create it.

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Eco-Friendly Kitchen Gifts For Food Lovers

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Kitchen Daily Holiday Gift Guide, Green Gifts, Earth Day, Eco-Friendly Gifts, Recycled Products, Cooking-Products, Green Products, Cooking-Gift-Guides, Holiday Gifts, KitchenDaily News

The beauty of green gifts is that they're not just appropriate for Earth Day or stereotypical tree huggers anymore -- everyone on your list can bene...

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10 Ways To Tell If A Product Is (Or Isn't) Really 'Natural'

Beth Greer | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Cosmetic Labels, Personal Health, Cleaner-and-Greener, Healthier-Greener-Home, Natural, Fda, Makeup Labels, Natural Health, Makeup, Organic, Redroom, Product Safety, Nontoxic, Healthy Living Body, Green Products, Preservatives, Personal Care Labels, Eco-Safe, Healthy Living News

"Natural," "Nontoxic" or even "Eco-Safe" on the label of your shampoo, deodorant or makeup, makes you think it'd be made with healthy, safety-tested ingredients, right? Well, not always.

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Green Tips For Dorm Living

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Eco-Friendly, Green School, Good News, Green Dorm, St. Lawrence University, Back to School, Video, College, Third Industrial Revolution, Green-Living, Dorms, Green Colleges, Eco Dorm, Green Products, Healthier Greener Home, Green News

From St. Lawrence University: Students heading off to college know that Target, Lands End, Wal-Mart and other retailers devote entire sections to h...

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Study Finds Bioplastics May Harm Environment

| Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Bioplastics Debate, Plastics, Biodegradable Plastics, Bioplastics Drawbacks, Bioplastics, Green Living, Green Products, Green News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. Bad news about “environmentally friendly” biodegradable plastics: They may not be so e...

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Sunscreen Protection and Nail Polish: A Green Approach

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Skincare, Nail Polish, Sunscreen, Acquarella, Green Products, w.s. Badger Company, Style News

As the country continues to debate ways to protect our environment, individuals are gaining greater recognition about how their lifestyle choices can make an impact. Retailers in the health and beauty arena are heeding the call to become part of the solution.

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New York Times, Take This!

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Recycle, The New York Times, Alcoa, Green Products, Clorox Green Works?, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Green Home, Valvoline, Pentel, Green News

A recent New York Times article, in classic "all the news that's fit to print" fashion, declared that the bevy of green consumer products introduced o...

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Consumers Never Liked to Pay More for Green to Begin With

Andrew Winston | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Method, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Green Products, Green to Gold, Clorox Green Works?, Green Marketing, Toyota Prius, Seventh Generation, Clorox, Healthier Greener Home, Green News

To the extent that the premium-priced green products named by the Times have taken a hit, consumers' disdain isn't news: Recession or not, mass consumers never loved paying extra for green.

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Green Washing -- the Good Kind

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living Advice, Green Cleaning, Green Products, Eco Friendly Cleaning Supplies, Green Living Tips, Eco Friendly, Green Cleaning Supplies, Green Cleaning Products, Green Living, Healthier Greener Home, Green News

Hate germs but love the planet? Fortunately, a growing array of greener cleaning products lines stores' shelves these days. Here's a list that can comfort even the most neurotic germophobe.

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Eight Green Myths Debunked; Five Green Products to Watch

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diapers, Green Products, Rules of Green Marketing, Organic Products, Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Electric Cars, Green News

Fact: No product can be truly "green" since all products use resources and create waste, but products can be "greener," denoting a continuum toward sustainability.

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Green Energy Innovation: Building A National Commitment

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Energy Innovation Council, General Electric, High-Risk High-Reward Research, Kleiner Perkins, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Bank of America, George F. Will, Clean Energy, Scialog, National Science Foundation, James Fallows, Arpa-E, John Holdren, Ursula Burns, Steven Chu, Electric Cars, Department of Energy, Nathan Lewis, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Lockheed Martin, Energy Secretary, Biosphere-2, American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Doerr, Bill Gates, U.S. Treasury Department, Caltech, Jeff Immelt, Nobel Prize, Xerox, The Atlantic, Green Products, Wind Turbines, China, Green News

Clean energy may well be the next economic revolution, and the United States can be at the forefront, if we take full advantage of our nation's streng...

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Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener

David Milroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doe, Green Technologies, Green Tech, Carbon Reduction, Wood-Waste, Lignin, Green Products, Electric Cars, Green News

The greenest technology in the world will help no one if it cannot be marketed. In addition to government assistance, the private sector must rely heavily on itself to create and market the latest in the green space.

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Cleaning House the Old-Fashioned Way

Michael McGown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Water Conservation, Green Living, Landfills, Green Cleaning Products, Green Products, Bottled Water, Green News

There are great cleaning products available today that don't need any more water than what is available from your own tap.

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15 Top Eco-Friendly Yoga Products for National Yoga Month

Zem Joaquin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health and Wellness, Yoga, National Yoga Month, Yoga Mat, Slidepollajax, Eco-Friendly, Pvc, Green Products, Green News

Shouldn't everything associated with your yoga practice be as conscious as your asanas? My team and I have curated a list of yoga apparel and accessories that are as smart as they are centering.

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Earth Day: What Began As Anti-Business Is Now All Big Business

The New York Times | Leslie Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eco Consumerism, Earth-Day-40th-Anniversay, Earth Day Business, Earth Day Big Business, Earth Day, Green Consumerism, Earth Day Antibusiness, Green Business, Green Products, Green Marketing, Green News

So strong was the antibusiness sentiment for the first Earth Day in 1970 that organizers took no money from corporations and held teach-ins "to challe...

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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bj Services, Fracking, Halliburton, Epa, Green, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Safe Drining Water Act, Care2, Chemicals, Jet Fuel, Green Products, Mother Jones, Nike, Waste Management, Waste, British Airways, Hydrofracking, Starbucks, Natural Gas, Green News

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Ed. note: This week's Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We'll be back to our re...

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Less Waste: Magazine Uses Dissolving Plastic Packaging

Creative Review | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Landfills, Creative Review Magazine, Green Living, Green-Packaging, Green Products, Reducing Waste, Magazines, Green News

Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill....

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Green Products At CES 2010: The 9 Best Eco-Friendly Tech At The Consumer Electronics Show (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Green Gear, Green Products Ces, Green Products, Green Products Ces 2010, Green Ces 2010, Ces 2010, Consumer Electronics Show 2010, Green Gadgets, Consumer Electronics Show, The Future, Technology News

One of the top trends at this year's Consumer Electronics Show was green tech. From solar powered backpacks to electric cars, eco-friendly gadgets we...

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Does Your iPod have a Carbon Footprint?

Ginna Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living, Carbon Footprint, Product Carbon Footprint, Green, G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Products, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Green News

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your iPod has a carbon footprint. The holiday season makes me think about all the gifts I've purchased for loved ones and their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Is Buying Green a Moral Offset?

Mother Jones | Stephanie Volkoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green-Washing, Green Living, Green Products, Green News

The study found that making environmentally responsible consumer choices leads people to make unethical decisions (or at least not as nice ones) later...

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