Safe Soap

Keeping your family germ-free while reducing your dependence on petroleum- and chemical-filled products is a difficult endeavor. Lately it seems as though petroleum byproducts and corn syrup derivatives are in most products, even when they don’t seem necessary. Petroleum is often found in various fuel types, plastics, detergent and many other daily household products. The effort to shrink [...]

Whole Foods Makes Plastic, Seafood Ultimatums

The publicly-traded natural food retailer Whole Foods Market recently followed its beauty ultimatum with a new plan to implement new packaging guidelines for its body care and supplement products. In an effort to cut down on plastic consumption, the company will get body and supplement suppliers to switch to post-consumer recycled (PCR) bottles and will [...]

The Eco Cell

The Dirt: Buying a cell phone is a now an overwhelming process thanks to the dizzying selection of hardware, but if you are really a Scuppie (green yuppie), opt for the Motorola Renew. Green in its mission and its casing, this multi-media mobile offers the usual features, such as picture messaging, Web access and music [...]

Retail & Celebrity Charity News Week of December 15-21

Whole Foods Donates To Hunger Relief Publicly traded healthy grocery store Whole Foods Market has donated almost $1 million worth of food to Feeding America, a charitable hunger relief organization. Feeding America, which has about 200 member food banks and food-rescue organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Whole Foods Market’s donation is nearly [...]

Trader Joe’s, Mango and more

The Whole Foods in Glastonbury, Conn. is reportedly the first supermarket to create most of its power onsite with a clean fuel cell system. The system combined a cooling, heating and power system that claims to cut its carbon footprint by generating 50% of the electricity and heat and almost all of the hot water [...]