Category: Better Products
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Is Your Electric Vehicle Actually More Sustainable? Of Course It Is. Here’s Why.
If you apply a rigorous framework of Resource Usage compared to Replenishment Value, the hesitation vanishes. The honest answer is: Yes. Categorically.
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HOLO Footwear: Choosing the Better Box
HOLO Footwear: Choosing the Better Box Responsible consumerism rarely happens in a research lab. It happens in a discount aisle when you have a standard pair of Pumas in one hand, a concert on the calendar, and a mental spending cap you set on the drive over. That was the scene at Going Going Gone…
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A $3 USB Stick That Could Save Your Old Laptop From the Landfill
Got an old laptop collecting dust? Before you toss it, there’s a $3 solution worth knowing about. Google and Back Market just announced a partnership that could keep millions of older computers out of landfills. They’re selling USB sticks preloaded with ChromeOS Flex—Google’s lightweight operating system that runs primarily in the cloud. Plug it in,…
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A great new transparency tool for responsible consumers: Buy’r
I just found an app I think many of us in the responsible consumer space should know about: Buy’r. Their core idea is simple and powerful: help people understand who they are really buying from before they spend money. If you care about where your dollars go—and what kind of business behavior your…
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Disposable lighters? Pure junk – use a refillable.
As I’ve written before. One of the problems we’re dealing with is the preponderance of single use plastic and concurrent waste that occurs due to it. I’m a smoker. I smoke cannabis. I like to smoke a joint and so I need to have something to light that joint. For a long time I used…
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Don’t Buy Plastic… buy bio-plastics
One of the purchasing “rules” I’ve imposed on myself is to avoid all plastic containers, and most plastic products. Vegetarianism is easy, compared to this. Plastics are everywhere, and very difficult to avoid. What makes plastics fantastic, is also its problem. The choice about how we as a society use plastics is what we can…