Green American Magazines Archive
Summer 2017: Special Issue: Guide to Social Investing and Better Banking
You don’t have to be rich to be a social investor. All you need is the will to use your money to support your values—and the kind of world you want to see for the future. People who bank and invest in a socially responsible manner arguably have never been more important to the health of humanity and the Earth.Featured Articles:
- You Can Invest in Change: Pick an Issue
- Vote with Your Investments for a Better World
- Does Social Investing Affect Performance?
- Social Investing at Every Age
- How Karen and Joe Greened Their Investments
- Anatomy of a Proxy Ballot
- Divestment: A Powerful Tool for Change
- Break Up with Your Megabank in 10 Easy Steps
- Five Cool (and Free) Tools for Financial Wellness
Winter 2018: Healthy Soil, Cool Climate
A widespread switch to regenerative agriculture won’t just heal the soil. At scale, it can actually reverse the climate crisis.Featured Articles:
- Heal the Soil, Cool the Climate
- Turning “Food Prisons” into Gardens
- Regenerative Agriculture 101
- Farms That Harvest the Sun—Twice
- Real Gardeners, Real Climate Action
- From Slash and Burn to Regeneration in Ghana
- Plant-Based Investing, for the Good of Animals
- Breaking Down Barriers to Composting
- Eating in a Warming World
Summer 2018: Hidden Workers Fighting for Change
Our economy rests on the backs of workers who are practically invisible, toiling in fields, mines, warehouses, and factories under unspeakable abuses. They’re fighting to change the system—and everyone can help.Featured Articles:
- The Immigrants Who Feed the Country
- The True Cost of Two-Day Shipping
- On Sale Now: Prison Labor
- Green Tech’s Underground Workers
- A Life in California's Strawberry Fields
- Investing in Common-Sense Gun Safety
- Mining on Sacred Ground
- Life in an Electronics Factory
Spring 2018: New Green Tech: Promise and Pitfalls
For better or worse, a vast array of new technology is becoming smarter, more interconnected, and able to churn out mind-boggling sets of data. While some of that tech is merely interesting or adds convenience (and waste!), some might help make our lives greener in the years to come.Featured Articles:
- Smart Tech for a Greener Life
- Green Tech for the Future
- Smarter, Safer Energy Savers
- The Bright Future of Solar Power
- A Living Building? Challenge Accepted
- Climate-Friendly Fridges That Are Truly Cool
- Smart Homes and Privacy
- Staying Connected the Old-Fashioned Way
- At Home with a Green Architect
- The Color of Justice
- Plant a Garden, Cool the Planet
Winter 2017: Climate Change: 100 Reasons for Hope
Bestselling author Paul Hawken and a team of 200+ experts have created a detailed plan to not only curb but reverse the climate crisis. And yes, they say, it’s possible.Featured Articles:
- A Plan to Reverse the Climate Crisis
- Top 10 Solutions to Reverse Climate Change
- Power to the People: Fueling the Revolution for Energy Justice
- In Search of Ethical Fashion
- Social Investing Victories of 2017
Fall 2017: Drinking Water at Risk
Water supplies across the US have become contaminated by toxins from the energy, mining, and agricultural industries, among others—wreaking havoc on vulnerable ecosystems and human health. But local communities are taking action to ensure clean water for all.Featured Articles:
- Protect Our Water
- The Back Forty Mine: Is It the Next Standing Rock?
- Back 40 Mining Company Responds to Water Protectors
- Detroit Fights for Fair Water Access
- Get the Frack Out!
- Keepers of the Water
- What Does Sewage Have to Do with It?
- ReZpect Our Water
- Pushing Out Pipelines
- 13 Ways to Save More than 65 Gallons of Water a Day
- Bottled Water vs. Tap: Which is Best?
Spring 2017: Economic Action Against Hate
A burst of over 1,000 hate crimes and incidents have occurred since Election Day, and the President's words and actions are only making perpetrators bolder.With white supremacists in the cabinet and anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of the White House, we need green, people-centered solutions that bring people together—and don't depend on Washington.
Featured Articles:
- Hate Has No Business Here
- Finding Jobs and Finding Justice for Trans Workers
- Muslim Activists Build Bridges
- An Organizer in the House
- A Sign of Inclusion
- Sacred Resistance
Winter 2016: Tackling Food Waste
Forty percent of the food we grow in the US never gets eaten, it gets tossed out somewhere on the path from farm to table. That's billions of pounds of food that uses up land, water, fertilizer and pesticides, packaging, transportation, fuel, and more. For nothing.Featured Articles:
- Waste Not, Eat Well at Daily Table
- 5 Ways to Fight Food Waste
- Are meal kits recipes for fun, or waste?
- She can’t stand food waste, so she’s educating the world about it.
- Expiration dates don’t mean what you think
- Investing To Support Standing Rock
- Unplugging for the Holidays, for Your Family's Health
Summer 2016: Rethinking Recycling
In our latest issue of Green American, we look at how to do recycling better. It's not only important to reduce, reuse and recycle: it's important to do it the right way.Featured Articles:
- Americans are really bad at recycling. But only because we’re not trying very hard.
- 9 Ways to Take Your Recycling to the Next Level
- Dirty Recycling Systems are Trashing Communities of Color
- How recycling works and why it’s so often done wrong
- Rescue Your Recycling!
Spring 2016: Climate Justice for All
People of color are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and are leading the call for equitable protection and meaningful action.Green American published this dedicated to amplifying the voices of those on the front lines of the climate crisis, working to protect the most vulnerable areas around the world. No matter what your background is, it’s vital to join the…
Featured Articles:
- People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
- Black Lives Matter in a Changing Climate
- The Power of Latino Voices on Climate
- Native Leaders Lend Strength to the Climate Change Fight
- Mohamed Nasheed: Climate Champion for the World’s Most Vulnerable
- On the Duties of Privilege
- A Discussion Guide for Climate Justice
- It Doesn’t End with Flint
Winter 2015 Issue: Soil Not Oil: How Organics Can Feed the World
• Regenerative, Organic Agriculture: Cool the Climate, Feed the WorldCan organic farming feed the world and curb the climate crisis? The nonprofit Rodale Institute, PA, has one of the longest-running field trials showing that it can.
• INFOGRAPHIC: Living Soil vs. Dead Dirt
95% of our food is grown in soil. But one-third of the world’s soils have become degraded—turning…
Featured Articles:
- Regenerative, Organic Agriculture: Cool the Climate, Feed the World
- Hasbro and Disney:Protect Toy Factory Workers!
- Living Soil: Vandana Shiva on the Triple Climate Crisis
- Living Soil vs. Dead Dirt
- Recycled Green Gifts for the Holidays
Fall 2015 Issue: Detox Your Closet: The Search for Less-Toxic Clothes
Creating clothes from field to factory can result in toxic chemicals being unleashed on workers, on the planet, and even on you and your family. Here’s how you can avoid fashion disasters and start your search for less toxic clothingFeatured Articles:
- The Trouble with Nano-Fabrics
- Detox Your Closet!
- 7 Tips for Less Toxic Clothing
- Make Do and Mend: Reuse at Home
- Why You Should Be Wearing Organic Underwear
- Dollar Store Items Found to Be Riddled with Toxins
- Stay Vocal CEO Launches Reuse! Documentary
- The Road to Toxic Clothing
- 9 Toxic Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products
Summer 2015 Issue: Investing Can Change the World
If you think you don’t have enough money to become a socially responsible investor, think again—for the health of our planet.Read "Investing in Change" »
• The 5 Coolest Calculators for Financial Wellness
From Retirement, to saving for a child's education, to mortgages, find the calculators you need.
• Invest For Your Future and a Better World
Three strategies to help…
Featured Articles:
- Invest For Your Future and a Better World
- Investing In Change
- Investing in Resilience: Interview with Michael Kramer
- The 5 Coolest Calculators for Financial Wellness
- 5 Green Ways to Save More Than $8,000 a Year
- Green Your Intimate Moments
Spring 2015 Issue: A World of Hurt
21st century sweatshops produce goods for unsuspecting consumers. Here are 6 common things made with slave labor. Read "A World of Hurt"Featured Articles:
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know Were Made with Sweatshop Labor
- The Ghost Fleet
- Investors For Bangladeshi Worker Rights
- 10 Herbs for Topical Healing
- Green Your Intimate Moments
Winter 2014 Issue: The Green Economy's Best Year Ever!
This issue of the Green American marks our 100th issue. While we’ve had some terrific victories over the years since we published our first issue (then called Building Economic Alternatives) in 1985, we’ve been seeing more rapid results in recent years to our action campaigns, most markedly in 2014, where our campaigns enjoyed their most impactful year yet. Read "7 Green…Featured Articles:
- New Favorite Holiday Recipes
- 4 New Year’s Resolutions for Financial Health
- Green Holiday Gift Ideas for Children
- 7 Green Reasons to Celebrate
Fall 2014 Issue: Don’t Have A Cow
Americans eat too much red meat—with tremendous impacts on our health, our environment, and the climate crisis. It’s time to tell everyone you know to eat less beef—or none at all. Read "Don't Have A Cow"Featured Articles:
- Too Much Bad Beef
- Best Option: Go Vegan!
- 5 Steps to Better Dairy
- Something That Means Justice: An Interview with Suzan Shown Harjo
- How Stereotypes Hurt: An Interview with Dahkota Franklin Kicking Bear Brown
Apr/May 2014 Issue: Toxic Gadgets
Workers who make smartphones and other electronics overseas are being poisoned by the toxins used inside supplier factories. You can end this. Read "Toxic Gadgets."Featured Articles:
- Toxic Gadgets
- The Conflict Mineral Question
- What Can We Do About E-Waste?
- Safer Sunscreen for Summer
- Shareholders Take Emergency Action to Protect “Fracked” Family
Jan/Feb 2014 Issue: GMOs & the Case for Precaution
Whether it's GMOs, pesticides, or other experiments that affect our health, why don't we require corporations to wait for science to prove safety?Aren't we better safe than sorry? Read "GMO's & the Case for Precaution" »
Featured Articles:
- GMOs & the Case for Precaution
- Uncovering Deadly Research Suppression and Bias Toward Biotech
- Farmers vs. the Corporate Seed Police
- A Biologist Fights Back Against Big Biotech
- Other GMO Issues
- How to Invest Fossil-Fuel Free
- A Farmer Struggles to Remain GMO-Free
November/December 2013: It's Getting Greener
"Green" practices have spread from a few innovators to the business mainstream. Major shifts toward sustainability are not only possible -- they're happening. Are we reaching a "green-economy tipping point"?Featured Articles:
- By the Numbers
- Why Switch to a Responsible Credit Card
- 10 Ways to Join the Sharing Economy
- How Green Businesses Lift Up Vulnerable Workers
- The Challenge: Nifty But Thrifty
September/October 2013: Go Green on a Budget
You want to eat organic, buy what you need green and Fair Trade, and support renewable energy, but you worry that green living can be expensive.Our latest Green American gives you tips and resources for living green on a budget.
Featured Articles:
- 10 Ways to Join the Sharing Economy
- The Many Benefits of Backyard Chickens
- A Store Where Everything is Free
- 7 Green(Washed) Things You Should Never Buy Again
- A Tale of Two Shirts: Green vs. Conventional
- How To Eat Organic Food on a Budget
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