Green American Magazines Archive
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
- 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
July/August 2013: Fair Labor at Home
Wage theft, sweatshop conditions, and slave labor happen in the US, especially to immigrant workers. But they aren't passive victims of exploitation, they're leading the movement for fair labor conditions for all.Featured Articles:
- Fair Labor at Home
- Mortgages from Responsible Banks
- How Green Businesses Lift Up Vulnerable Workers
- Does "Made in the USA" Mean Not In a Sweatshop?
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