I live in the Chicago area and as many of you probably already know, Chicagoans LOVE their food, hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, and especially pizza. Chicago pizza is great. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world and finally we are going to have Chicago style organic pizza! Organic Oven Works is [...]
Introduction I have found that a lot of people who attempt to make the switch to using environmentally and socially responsible products very quickly get overwhelmed. They don’t know where to start, what to look for, or what products are good. This series is supposed to serve as a base to start from. I am [...]
I am not really all that into jewelry, but I found greenKarat through an advertisement on my site. It makes jewelry (both their own designs and custom) without using the traditional ways of mining for gold and diamonds that are extremely damaging to the ecosystem. “Our mission is to provide an ecologically and socially responsible [...]
I went into the basement of my apartment building yesterday to do a couple of loads of laundry. There is a big trash can next to the laundry machines/sinks and it was full of empty laundry detergent plastic containers. I dug in and gathered up the containers, looked on the bottom, and found that ALL [...]
I received this article from my sister. She found it in the business section of the January 2006 Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine while flying to California. The article, written by Ellise Pierce, is titled Eco-Chic and discusses the new wave of clothing that is both fasionable and environmentally friendly. Designers are wanting to incorporate ethics [...]
I want to take a moment to advocate for the use of environmentally friendly printing for your business printing needs. Most of the marketing collateral that is produced is done so on non-recyclable paper and using inks that are toxic (not only to the earth but to the printers as well). It’s an easy decision [...]
I was going to make a long list of everything that some way or another you can recycle. I have since decided against that idea because there is a website that will do a much better job at giving you information on everything that you can recycle and answering your questions. Earth 911 Let me [...]
I have been sent, by my beloved family and friends, articles relating to the environment and human rights. Over the next few weeks (and maybe longer) I am going to start sharing those articles with you. Some of them will be a little dated, but all of them will, I hope, be interesting. You will [...]
How exciting, the final R! Recycle First of all, there is no excuse to not recycle when most cities and towns offer curbside pick-up for recycling. For those of you who live somewhere that curbside recycling is not offered you should be able to, fairly easily, find a recyling drop-off center near you. This one [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (usually refered to as the EPA) is in the process of making a decision to restrict public access to the now public information regarding corporate polluters. The original purpose of making this information available to the public was to serve as a form of protection from companies using harmful polutants that [...]