Green Leaf Report

I’m always uncomfortable when I read articles about green-washing and the fallacies of the green industry; I don’t want the occasional missteps to be provided as an excuse to walk away from the potential benefits.  But Business Week has an article ‘Little Green Lies’  that walks the line between provocative and painful truth.  As I […]

 At what point did our culture stop respecting anything free?  How many people have kept their air conditioner running on nights that are cooler outside than the air conditioner is set on inside?  Who among us has put clothes in the automatic drier when it’s 80 degrees outside (or even warmer)? Which vendors keep bright lights burning […]

I recently put together a list of my top 10 green lifestyle changes, and I left off one item, because it wasn’t a change, it was so ingrained in the way I was raised:  buy locally made items.  Over the years, I’ve adjusted this attitude somewhat because locally produced goods can be so hard to […]

Today I signed up to stop catalog delivery to my home through Catalog Choice, a service supporting sustainable industry best practices.  My biggest pet peeve is the Pottery Barn catalogs- a few years ago we bought a natural fiber rug from Pottery Barn for our living room.  Unfortunately, our dogs seemed to think the […]

We all need optimism to survive; we all need to feel like we matter, that we can make a difference, don’t we?  I’ve changed my life over the years to try to lessen my impact, to live a more environmentally aware lifestyle; the changes can be so small, but I feel better with each one. My […]

I received an email tonight that I originally thought was spam; I skimmed it, and it was hilarious.  The email came from Cleantech.com, formerly Inside Greentech, and covered the common mistakes of green marketing and PR.  I really can’t improve on these examples; I’ve clipped some of the best parts of the email below:
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At lunch the other day, a friend and I were debating the plastic water bottle problem- how do we reduce the amount of waste within our company from employees drinking multiple small bottles of water every day, and thus reduce the amount of trash we generate?  As we brainstormed over removing the drink machines (very unpopular, I’m […]