Reusable shopping bags are good for the environment, but make sure they’re good for your health too by choosing a bag you can wash.
Think about it. Your bags are touched by lots of folks at the grocery store. They sit on conveyor belts, in shopping carts and in car trunks. If you’re buying raw meat that could leak, be especially vigilant in washing your bags. It’s also smart to reserve a set of bags for grocery shopping, not for the gym, etc.

I have some organic cotton bags (pictured) that have held up well to many washings. Yet, I know that …read more

Many products come packaged. It can be a huge waste on resources and contributes to our growing landfills. However, it’s easy to make smarter product and packaging choices. Following are some tips…

Buy products that come sans packaging. For example does a Frisbee need a package? Do you need to buy tomatoes that come in a box wrapped in plastic, when a bin of non-wrapped tomatoes sit nearby? No not really. Buy the package free variety of items whenever possible.
Buy stuff in reusable packaging. For example a soy candle in a reusable glass jar or soap in a tin. Just make …read more

If you want to shop, but shop for an eco-cause, there are plenty of places that allow you to not only shop but to make a difference by donating a percentage of your purchase to an eco-cause of your choice.

Green Any Site: Green Any Site (GAS) (shown above), you can easily donate a portion of any online purchase to the environment. You pull their bookmarking tab to your browser and when you click it when you buy a product somewhere some of the proceeds from your purchase are donated to an eco-cause. Basically, web retailers (think Amazon, Buy.com) pay other …read more

If you’re shopping for green good or services, you can do a Google search for green goods or you can focus your search efforts on places that offer quality green goods constantly. These places below are trust-worthy places to start when shopping for green goods and services.

Where to find a BULK of green goods and services:
Green America, formerly Co-Op America offers a huge shop and service site featuring all sorts of green goods and services through their National Green Pages. The Green Pages is like the Yellow Pages of green items. It features everything you can think of, like…

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At a certain point in your road less traveled, the concept of a life list really starts to become not only a weightier proposition, but a neccessary one.
I have been thinking about this a lot, and while bungee-jumping is not on my list, here are a few things that are:
Get outside my comfort zone — as in, new friends, a more ambitious business sensibility — in other words life beyond my neighborhood.
Continue to educate myself — that could mean a new language, a course on (yipes) how to properly use Excel or maybe some cooking classes.
But here is …read more