Articles tagged “Reusable Bags”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

25 Easy Daily Greening Decisions- Room by Room By Laurel House IN Home & Garden Apr 27 2011 Maybe one green change alone can’t make this world a greener place, but thousands, millions of ones will. One drop in a bucket hardly makes a splash. But millions of individual drops make an ocean. + READ MORE

Reusable Shopping Bags: Make Your Own By Craftster.org IN Home & Garden Feb 8 2011 You can make your own reusable shopping bags, and customize them for all your shopping needs. Whether you need a simple tote to take to the farmer's market, or smaller bags for purchasing things from bulk bins, we've got an idea for you! + READ MORE

Why Leading By Example Matters: It's in the Science - Green Behavior Develops through Peer Pressure By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Nov 3 2010 The secret to getting people to go green is not education or even financial incentive, but guilt. + READ MORE

40 Ways You Can Go Green on Earth Day By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Work & Connect Apr 20 2010 Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with our 40 suggestions for going green in your day-to-day routine, in your home, at the office, and more. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Reusable Shopping Bags With Recycled Materials By Craftster.org IN Home & Garden Mar 9 2010 There's no need to accept plastic shopping bags when you can make your own eco-friendly reusable bags. Help reduce waste and go shopping in style. + READ MORE

6 Ways to Make Reusable Bags Work for You By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden Jan 19 2010 From keeping your bags free of bacteria to choosing versions made from sustainable materials, see how you can make your reusable shopping bags even greener than they already are. + READ MORE

Reusable Produce Bags... from Sports Jerseys? By Blythe Copeland IN Food & Health Nov 12 2009 Old basketball jerseys offer breathability and protection for carrying fruits and vegetables home from the grocery store or farmer's market. + READ MORE

Produce: The Other Reusable Bag By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Oct 26 2009 People using plastic produce bags at a market. + READ MORE

Is There Really a Value to All Those Little Green Habits? By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Aug 31 2009 Reuse bags, turn off the faucet, switch off the lights. We greenies are always nagging others to take "small steps" - but are these small steps a distraction from the big challenges we face? Not if we use them as an opportunity to plan for more... + READ MORE

How to Keep Your Reusable Bags Clean and Safe By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Jun 9 2009 Reusable shopping bags are great. I love them and I'm constantly picking up another one here and there—if I forget to bring a bag with me, my punishment is the cost of a new one, so they've sort of multiplied. But you know a green product is catching on when the plastics industry is fighting back in what must be an effort to drum up business. + READ MORE

What's the Big Deal with Forgetting Your Reusable Bags? By Sara Novak IN Work & Connect May 26 2009 Planet Green answers a common question: Does it really matter if you use reusable shopping bags? + READ MORE

Meet Belinda David-Tooze, Owner of Envirosax Reusable Bags By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 21 2009 Envirosax reusable shopping bags are popular for their tiny, compact design—but we had no idea that he mastermind behind them all is incredibly larger than life. Belinda David Tooze, the founder, always had an avid interest in design, fashion, and textiles. When she mixed that with her early exposure to travel, culture and nature—Envirosax evolved—a business that reflected her commitment to environmental philosophies. + READ MORE

A Post-Earth Day Manifesto for Even Greater, Green Thinking By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 6 2009 Simran Sethi, environmental journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at Kansas University, shared an inspiring Post-Earth Day Manifesto in the Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from her article. + READ MORE

60,000 Plastic Bags are Being Used This Second: Help Slow it Down By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Apr 16 2009 We've all been bombarded with green tips to bring our own canvas bags. On an intellectual level, we get it: plastic bags suck. But do we really truly, deeply understand the serious implications of them?enough to put our intellectual understanding into action? + READ MORE

Paper or Plastic?—If You Have to! By Sophie Uliano IN Home & Garden Jan 23 2009 Okay, so there are many occasions when you reach the checkout and have either forgotten all your reusable totes or you don't have enough for the enormous shop you've just done. What's a green girl to do? We get right back to the ubiquitous "paper or plastic" question. So which is the better choice? + READ MORE

Living Off-Grid: Without a Trash Pickup Day By Trevor Reichman IN Home & Garden Nov 25 2008 Living off-grid usually means that there is no trash pickup day. No Problem. Here is what I do in order to limit my trash to one small carryout bag per month. + READ MORE

13 Ways to Make Cool Reusable Shopping Bags for Free By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 12 2008 Raw materials for cool one-of-a-kind shopping bags are laying around your house right now. Make fun, unique, and thrifty reusable shopping bags that are either quick fixes or that will bring out the craftster in you. + READ MORE

Tote Your Reusable Bag with Dignity By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Nov 10 2008 Being environmentally conscious no longer carries the tree-hugging hippy stigma it once did. Still, it doesn't mean that every green deed is well-understood or accepted socially yet. To help you navigate the perils of going green in the modern age, we've decided to put together a sort of green advice column. + READ MORE

Logo a Reusable Bag and Tote Your Company Brand By Kati Stevens IN Work & Connect Nov 7 2008 Reusable grocery bags are wonderful. I have three—one's a tote bag from the West Hollywood Public Library, one's a nondescript plain white bag whose provenance I couldn't begin to guess at, and the third's a tote bag my company gave me with its name emblazoned on the side. + READ MORE

How to Support Your Presidential Candidate the Green Way By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Oct 30 2008 Coming into the last weeks of the presidential race, most of us have decided which candidate we'll be voting for on November 4th. The question is now, how do we support our candidate while staying as environmentally friendly as possible? + READ MORE