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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 clothing

Featured 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

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.

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