When We Talk About Green Products
May 22, 2008 by Peggy
A recent post over at Melanie’s blog bean sprouts put into words several things that I’ve been thinking regarding buying green. The post is called Save the Planet – Stop Shopping.
Responding to a reader email, Melanie writes:
“It bugs me too that so much green advice seems to boil down to “spend a lot of money, buy all this ‘green’ stuff”. ‘Green’ is not a lifestyle choice. It’s not a sort of fashion that is only available to the rich. The greenest people on earth are the poorest. They don’t cause as much pollution, carbon emissions etc as we do because …read more