I’ve talked a little before about how I review green products, but it’s been a while so I thought I’d revisit the topic; especially since I review a lot of green products. Also, it’s good to know about how to review green products on your own because you and your family are going to be the ones using the product. No matter how many reviews you read, people have varying opinions and not everyone’s green criteria is the same.
My green criteria is as follows and is mainly useful to you if you want to read the green product reviews I’ve …read more

The other day, I was thinking about how many green product reviews we’ve done here at Tree Hugging Family. We’ve done so many that I thought it might be nice to gather them all up and take a look back. This is especially useful if you’re new to THF. We’ve reviewed many products relentlessly in order to decide if they’re useful enough, cool enough, and most importantly green enough to recommend to readers. We also always take price and safety into consideration.
Take a look at the following list and see if there’s a review you missed.

GREEN CLOTHING REVIEWS:

Mine Organics – …read more

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

In case you missed it, we had some green posts up surrounding eco-friendly topics. Kidding! Of course you knew that, just seeing if you’re paying attention.

Here’s what we had going on this week:
CONTESTS! Lots o’ contests – in fact a dozen – like a nice box of donuts.

A smashingly great Earth Day project for kids
PVC-free Shower Curtain Liner
How to reduce your carbon footprint – bunny style
A story about my insane child – Sometimes Recycling is an Emergency!

Two product reviews – which reminds me I have another to do…

Greening Your Pet: Feline Pine Cat Litter Review
Seventh Generation Automatic Dishwasher …read more

Deb from Simply Thrifty sent me a heads up about this ultra cool and easy to use new green shopping experience website. The site, called EVO reviews and rates green products in a way that makes it easy for consumers to make quick and green decisions. It doesn’t look like you can buy anything at their actual site but they refer you to a company’s site after you look at the rating.
The EVO rating system works like this…
They consider “What it’s made from, how it’s produced, the distance …read more