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.
Workers who make smartphones and other electronics overseas are being poisoned by the toxins used inside supplier factories. You can end this.
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, editor-inchief, with special thanks to Lynn Zhang and Heather White
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, editor-inchief, with special thanks to Lynn Zhang and Heather White
Need ideas for a green holiday season? We're here to help.
What better way to celebrate the holidays than by tapping into renewable energy, and sharing solar powered gifts with everyone on your list?
By Green America
By Green America
Whether you’re bartering your skills and services, or building community with a time bank, here are ways to get what you need without money.
By Green America
By Green America
Everyone could cut down on plastic use. But could you give it up forever?
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy
While you’re searching Halloween costume inspiration, don’t forget to make the holiday more sustainable.
By Eleanor Greene, adapted from research by Nina Ford
By Eleanor Greene, adapted from research by Nina Ford
Keep sweatshops out of your closet! Find out how to make sure your clothes are sweatshop-free and help change the fashion and clothing industries.
By Green America
By Green America
Here’s what to look for when you shop for underwear: organic underwear, better fabrics, fewer toxins. Learn more!
By Hillary Chester
By Hillary Chester
Winter brings short days and cooler temperatures, and if you’re like this writer, you’re finding yourself spending more time indoors. Are you looking around at your living room or bedroom and wishing for a change?
Your home is where you socialize, relax, cook, raise your children, and sometimes…
By Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist
By Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist
While energy efficiency, sweatshop labor, and toxins are problems, there are steps you can take to keep computer parts out of the landfill.
By Andrew Korfhage
By Andrew Korfhage
Victory
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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Safeway and other major grocery chains have a huge climate problem. Refrigerators in the companies’ stores using potent super-pollutant gasses, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), are leaking and accelerating the climate crisis.
We need you to send a letter to US bank executives today. Tell these megabanks to finance clean energy for people and planet, not fossil fuels that cause climate chaos.
Vanguard is lagging on climate: It’s the top fossil fuel investor and is failing to hold companies accountable on their climate and sustainability impacts.
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