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Get on Board the Non-Consumption Train

Get on Board the Non-Consumption Train: Ask yourself the following 13 questions before you continue through that check-out line. [...]

Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World: Erin Schrode

18-year-old Erin Schrode is on a crusade to get harmful chemicals out of beauty products. She moonlights as a model (recently featured in Seventeen magazine), has testified before the California Legislature, helped found a national coalition called Teens Turning Green, and started an eco-friendly body care line now sold in Whole Foods stores nationwide. [...]

Wake Up and Smell the Green Coffee

Given America’s addiction to coffee, a few alterations to your daily caffeine fix can have a big impact on how farmers treat the land where coffee is grown. The nice thing about words like “organic” and “fair trade” is that they make people who care about the Earth also care about buying a particular product. [...]

Blood Donors Needed / WIN a SMART CAR!

Blood Donors Needed / WIN a SMART CAR! [...]

10 Ways to Change the World through Social Media

This is a guest post from Max Gladwell.    Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. They’ll take for granted that they are connected and [...] [...]

Why I started Greendig

This was my original post from back in ‘07 about why I wanted to start the blog Greendig: Greendig – a blog that cuts through the thicket of BS that is “green.”  If you’re like me, you have grown tired of the incessant use of this innocent little adjective to legitimate everything from tampons to SUV’s. Those cheeky [...] [...]