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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing – Sin #2

December 6, 2010

Today we’ll dive into Sin #2, The Sin of No Proof. But first, as a reminder, here’s a definition of Greenwashing: GREENWASH Greenwashing is “the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.” SIN #2 – THE SIN OF NO PROOF The Sin [...]

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing – Sin #1

December 4, 2010

In 2007, 2009 and 2010, a company called terrachoice published a report titled “The Seven Sins of Greenwashing”. And although they found that 95% of “green” consumer products they surveyed were found to be guilty of one of the seven sins, things do seem to be improving. More manufacturers are really living it, not just [...]

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Easy Doesn’t Always Mean Simple

November 27, 2010

My wife and I were out and about today and visited Bed Bath & Beyond. As we wandered through the store we came upon one of those product demos for a Krups Nescafe Dolce Gusto Piccolo 15 Bar Single Serve Beverage Maker (whew!) in Titanium/Black. I had been talking about doing some product reviews and [...]

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Save Ink and $$

September 11, 2010

My wife, Brenda, was looking through a magazine and came across an article on back to school stuff. Now, just a reminder, our kids are adults and out on their own; that’s why we’re wanting to downsize our house. But this article intrigued her. It talked about a software program called EcoFont that saves 25% [...]

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Junk Mail

January 26, 2010

So last time I talked about phone books. Today I’d like to talk about junk mail. No one gets junk mail do we? Oh, really? You do? Our recycle bin at home is dominated by the junk mail that comes to us in the snail mail. I think that’s the dominant form of paper we [...]

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Paper or Plastic? Neither!

December 26, 2009

I remember when I would go to the grocery store and the clerk would ask “paper or plastic?” We typically would say “paper” because it was easier to recycle. Our garbage company picks up recycles, but doesn’t do plastic bags. And we’d always forget to take our plastic bags back to the store. So they’d [...]

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Going Paperless at Home

December 22, 2009

There are two technological marvels that I find incredibly helpful and amazing: pdf files and scanners. A couple of years ago, I started trying to go paperless. There are actually a lot of easy ways to make progress in this area. First, I started with online banking. My statements are no longer mailed to me, [...]

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Tissues, Toilet Paper and Towels

December 20, 2009

This section of the blog will require a part one and a part two. There are five paper product areas I want to discuss. I’m going to talk about four of those here in part one and will cover the fifth in part two. In the forest products industry, toilet paper is the number one [...]

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