Posted in children, clothing, environment, everyday, green products, recycle, second life, sustainability, sustainable, tagged Crocs, donation, plastic, shoe on March 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just got new Crocs. The info sheet included their recycling program!
Wear your Crocs until they’re all worn out.
Drop them at a participating retail shop, which you can find on their site. (I found 11 places within 25 miles of my home). Or mail them in if you’re really committed!
Crocs will clean them, crush them up, [...]
Posted in cleaning, everyday, food, green products, shopping, sustainable, tagged "liquid soap", Method, organic, refillable, Safeway, suburbs on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I felt like a tourist, wheeling my shopping cart through the rows and rows of aisles filled sky high with stuff at the local Safeway. This was not the same Safeway where I shopped over 15 years ago. Literally; it had been rebuilt one year ago on the other side of the parking lot.
This new [...]
Posted in green products, packaging, sustainable, tagged India, soap on December 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Holy Lama Yogi Soap
In a store in the old historic area of Fort Cochin, I noticed the Holy Lama Yogi Soap from Holy Lama Naturals. What drew me was not the soap itself–which smells great–but the packaging. The little “bowls” are made of palm leaf. (You can kind of see it in the photo.)
I had [...]
Posted in community, energy saving, food, green products, local, plastic, recycle, reuse, sustainability, transportation, tagged India on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just returned from a 3-week visit to India, where I kept my eyes/ears/nose open to the Everyday Sustainable there. This was a personal visit, which included travel in the North on the tourist-triangle of Delhi-Jaipur-Agra, and tourism with family/friends visit in the South–mostly Kerala and a few days in Bangalore.
In posts to come, I’ll [...]
Posted in cleaning, food, green products, health, kitchen, tagged cleaners, Co-op America, green, mahagony, packaging, plastic, PVC, styrofoam, sustainable, teak, toys, unshopping, wood on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a big fan of lists of MUSTs or MUST NOTs, since I think that it’s difficult to come up with a list that is relevant for everyone. That said, those little lists that are printed on wallet-size paper are pretty convenient. I think of them as guides, rather than a definitive list.
So, from [...]
Posted in baby, cleaning, green products, local, tagged coupon, elephant, green, pharmacy, sale, sustainable on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I wrote about the accessibility of green products. Well here’s something that helps.
It’s Elephant Pharmacy’s birthday!!! It’s a store (a small local chain of stores in this case) that specializes in stocking green and sustainable products, and if you haven’t been yet, this is a great chance to check it out.
They’re having a fabulous sale this [...]
Posted in green products, tagged deals, giveways, green on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I believe that accessibility is one of the keys to sustainability. If you can’t get it easily because of proximity, cost, or other issues, it’s very likely that a product/service/habit is not sustainable.
My friend started Ecobunga.com on the premise that lots of people would like to live in a way that is more sustainable, more [...]
