Supporting the green economy is more than being informed—it’s about following through and “voting with your dollar” as we call it. Where you shop and what you buy when you do sends a message to business owners. And it helps sustainable businesses stay afloat in a deal-driven market. Here are our favorite sustainable shopping tips.
Use these tips from a Green America member on making your house green and saving money.
By Andrew Schein
By Andrew Schein
Ninety-one percent of Americans and nearly 5 billion people worldwide use a cell phone. Increasingly, cell phones are becoming a vital part of our lives, functioning as our primary mode of personal and business communication as well as our calendars, cameras, MP3 players, and address books. It is…
A necessary type of bank for underserved communities, and the reasons why you should support them.
By Victoria Kreha
By Victoria Kreha
Take these actions and save up to 56 percent of your energy use!
Here are thirty-one tips to walk or bicycle more. After all, 40% of trips in the US are fewer than two miles from home!
Green America members are a powerful force when they act together and shop for people and the planet. Buy local, go green.
Check to see if any of your clothing could be considered "toxic".
What the labels don’t tell you is that fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
Make the holidays sustainable and fun.
By Andrew Korfhage
By Andrew Korfhage
Are your products made from conflict free gems?
By Martha van Gelder
By Martha van Gelder
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Smuckers removes GMOs and high fructose corn syrup from Uncrustables, its very popular peanut butter and jelly product for kids.
Green America's GMO Inside campaign has mobilized tens of thousands of consumers to ask Smuckers to remove GMOs from its products.
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JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America – the Big 4 banks – have collectively invested $1.37 trillion, or 25%, of all fossil-fuel financing…
Specialized, the cycling company, likes to position itself as a green company, but there is nothing green about the fact that workers who make Specialized clothing are being cheated out of wages.
Kroger has a major problem with super-polluting, greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). These HFCs have thousands of times the warming capacity of carbon dioxide, and supermarkets are leaking millions of tons of them every year. Grocery stores are major HFC emitters…
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