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GreenWashing: Seven Sins of Eco Friendly Labeling

By Bodynsoil On May 9, 2011 · 6 Comments

Take a walk through any store and you will see labels proclaiming to be free of something harmful, nature friendly, biodegradable or eco-degradable. Claims like these can be attention grabbing, sure, but are they truly beneficial? Is it Greenwashing? Are these companies committing one of the Seven Sins of Eco labeling?

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Tough Stuff: Bringing Light & Enterprise to the world

By Bodynsoil On April 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Working to break the cycle of poverty in some of the poorest parts of the world has been something many people are working to achieve. Andrew Tanswell and Adriaan Mol realized believe that just supplying aid wouldn’t solve the problem but providing a means for enterprise would.

These business minded individuals put together a product [...]

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Audi A3 Commercial

By Bodynsoil On April 26, 2011 · 6 Comments

I grabbed this off the ecomobility.tv, they asked if it was a great ad or greenwashing, what do you think? Personally I think it is a great ad that makes me laugh.

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Whole Foods Documentary tour for Earth Month

By Bodynsoil On March 27, 2011 · 2 Comments

April is Earth Month, in celebration Whole Foods is broadcasting documentaries in more than 70 cities during the month of April. What a wonderful idea for this grocer to run these films, many people aren’t able to watch them for various reasons. I read about the project on my newest “bookmarked favorite” site called:

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Finding a better non stick fry pan.

By Bodynsoil On March 15, 2011 · 1 Comment

Who knew frying pans would be such a hot topic within a group of friends, but during a recent gathering I mentioned that we needed a new non stick pan and suddenly the room was all ears. Of course before non stick teflon there was stainless steel or cast iron fry pans, which was all [...]

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Cleaning with Water, it’s a good thing

By Bodynsoil On March 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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In the U.S., every 30 seconds, a child goes thru poison control due to accidental poisoning from household chemicals. Before you are born your body is home to over 200 chemicals, a number that continues to increase every day of your [...]

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Oh Crap! If your Grocer provides disinfectant wipes you should use them

By Bodynsoil On March 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I have noticed that my local grocery store has started to provide disinfectant wipes. Initially I thought it was to kill off germs from the common cold or the flu, but that isn’t all that needs to be cleaned from your shopping cart. According an article in USA Today72 percent of shopping carts [...]

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Going green: 15 ways you can make the new year more eco-friendly (Via: ThisDishisVeg)

By Bodynsoil On December 29, 2010 · 1 Comment

This was a very nice post, I really enjoyed reading this and wanted to share it with all of my readers. We are evolving to be as green as possible and always looking for ways to improve.
Going green: 15 ways you can make the new year more eco-friendly I really like [...]

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A great approach to managing farm stock (Via Ted.com Michael Pollan)

By Bodynsoil On August 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

Growing up in a farming environment was a very interesting experience for me. We had the traditional type farm where the cows and horses were pastured together, all the pigs in a pen and the chickens had their own house with an open air enclosed area for rummaging around outside. In the last 15 years [...]

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The Story of Stuff and Bottled Water..

By Bodynsoil On July 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Watch this short presentation about bottled water and how big business is making you believe you need to purchase this product when they are actually trying to boost their bottom line. The Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of [...]

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