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Are you buying more green stuff now than 6 months ago?
Posted by lindsay39 • 3/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: buying green, green businesses, green shopping, greenwashing
Green businesses are all over the place...and there is a lot of greenwashing going on. But in this tight economy, are you really buying more green things/services than 6 months ago? More or less than a year ago? And if not, why not?
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Absolutely. The amazing thing is that eco-friendly products are getting more and more cost-competitive. Think of CFL bulbs for example - the bulbs themselves are getting cheaper and you get lots of $ savings in the long run thanks to the energy efficiency.
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Ummm ... my husband and I began going green 30 years ago when we chose to live a very simple life. We have never been materialists and do not fit the description of being part of the consumer society. We have not allowed ourselves to get caught up in the fast food and food products craze. We have always reduced, reused and recycled like our parents and grand parents did before us. We grow, barter and preserve food. We also barter for other goods and services. I could go on and on but the search box is full of information on the kind of minimalist lifestyle I lead. The last 6 months didn't change anything for us because we were already on board, so to speak.-
Me too, TT. I was raised by a fantatical environmentalist--so this is nothing new to me either. I've always done these things and it's like the rest of the world is just now catching up.
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I was raised by an environmentalist so it's like the rest of the world is just now catching up to my way of living. I have had composts, have recycled, etc since I was a child so I'm not doing anything new. I try as hard as I can to leave as gentle footprint as possible on our precious earth.
I'm so happy there's more awareness now. -
I am getting better, definitely. I have been learning from others and researching how I can do 'green' better. I shop second hand; clothes and household items, cloth bags, buying bulk, not buying water in small bottles, ( i use a filter instead), etc. In general I buy and use less.
I have been composting and recycling for years, though. I have never been one to purchase very many products. I've always been a minimalist.
In general, this lifestyle simplifies life
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Less. TV dinners are cheaper than fruits or vegetables. -
The bread, cheese and ham get all green after a few days. Does that count? -
In our family. We used natural stuff for cleaning the house. ANd buy organic food that has no chemical... -
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I use green practices rather than purchasing eco friendly items. You don't have to buy green cleaning agents when you can make them using things you have at home. I hang dry my clothes instead of drying. I thing going green is more time consuming than anything -
No, just buying less blue -
Not *buying*, no. But changing my habits. A lot of the green stuff can be done cheaply, with only a reasonably small bit of effort that I consider worth it. -
No I haven't changed. I've been green for thirty years. Not buying at all (ecogirl) has been my way of becoming even more green over the past ten years. The other day I found a case of white wine bottles gone bad in the trash, best cleaning vinegar I ever had!
In 1978 (I was 15) the geography teacher scared me with doom stories of the deforestation of the Amazone (ten football fields every day...). Never a fashion follower I was already into second hand clothing at the time because I liked it better. People I'm telling you 1978!!! Why did it take so long??? Age 17 I decided to eat less meat. Became 100 % veggie at 30, now +/- 80 %.
Age 18 I started to design knitwear. Pocket allowance not being sufficient to buy yarns I started to unravel any old sweater I found in the attic, then started to buy the most unwanted and cheapest at flea markets. Now I just take the old sweaters from the trash.
My house is furnished with trash and second hand buys. The only things I buy new are state of the art energy saving electric equipment (fridge, washer, tv). I've used low-energy light bulbs for over twenty years.
I think I was 18 when I saw a tv doc titled 'It's five to twelve'. So around 1982 or so. I'm often thinking it's five PAST twelve now. Nobody cared then. Now they see the ice melting at the north pole people get really scared.
I don't know if it's too late to start acting, but I'm glad it's finally an issue everybody thinks and talks about. The more who join the better.
PS: final note. Forgot the name of the writer but a die-hard Freegan (i.e. people who eat from the trash) wrote a book claiming the world's food problem could be solved if all the food thrown away in the rich countries, that is all the not good looking fruits and vegetables and all the the near expiring date thrown away products, could be saved for those who need them.
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