Black, White and Green

November 6, 2010

Kids tend to see things in black and white: You don’t like me? You must hate me. He’s not smart, he must be stupid. For many of us, the tendency to present a False Dilemma carries forward into adulthood. Big kid that I am, I often forget the shades of gray in between choices and [...]

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Did you know 1 in 8 people lack access to safe drinking water??

October 15, 2010

It’s Blog Action Day and this year’s topic is WATER. To get the conversation started, I will share some facts about water (many of which, I must admit, I was unaware of prior to this post) and they are shocking: * Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease. * 890 million people [...]

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EcoPlum Got a Facelift!

October 7, 2010

Yippee!!  Our new site has arrived!!  We are so excited and can’t wait to share it with you.  Thanks to our friends at PlanetMediaZone in Denver, we have a whole new look.  Hope you like it.  We also have a ton of new features so check them out: 1) EcoLeisure Section:  Here you will find [...]

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Spam Spam Spam Spam – Wonderful Spam

September 22, 2010

…or How Big Cities Will Transform the Way We Eat I’m not talking about the kind of spam you get in your inboxes, I’m actually talking about the canned meat of Monty Python fame. Why? Well, I don’t know exactly, but my topic today is sustainable food, so somehow I associate spam with… non-sustainable food? [...]

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Video Killed the Radio Star

August 3, 2010

Do you remember where you were when MTV debuted on August 1, 1981? (If you’re too young to remember, then hurray for you). I was at a sleepover at my friend Allison’s apartment on West 95th Street in Manhattan. I lived in the suburbs at the time, so those city sleepovers were super cool. The [...]

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Sign the KSCA Petition | Kid Safe Chemicals Interactive Magazine | Environmental Working Group

July 23, 2010

Just passing along some really important information from the Environmental Working Group: Dear Gia, We have huge news. The toxics reform bill, H.R. 5820, the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Chairmen Waxman (CA-30) and Rush (IL-01). Toxics reform is now moving through both houses of Congress. [...]

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Busting the Green vs. Clean Mentality

July 7, 2010

So I have this dear friend who just won’t give up the bottled water habit. I have told her about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, about the fact that it takes 700 years for a plastic bottle to begin to decompose, and yet, when I was visiting with her recently, she and her family went [...]

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The Spill, Personal Stories, and an Easy (and not so Easy) Way to Help

June 25, 2010

It’s been almost a month since my last post. Why the radio silence? Well at first I was just overwhelmed by the Gulf Spill and I wasn’t quite sure I could write a post that would do justice to the whole awful situation. Then I finally pulled together what I thought was quite an excellent [...]

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All I Want for my Birthday is a Composter…

May 27, 2010

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but the subtitle to this blog is “Confessions of a Reformed Consumer.” Well it doesn’t get much more reformed than this: just a few years ago I was longing for shoes, handbags, and lots of good STUFF for my birthday. Why a perfect birthday usually included a stop at Saks [...]

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Green Design, Not So Green Implementation

May 18, 2010

I have to share something that has driven me absolutely crazy for a while. At the risk of exposing too much information, I’m letting you know that am still taking the birth control pill at age 46. Anyway, I get my three month supply from Medco every, well, three months. Included in the package are [...]

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