by Jen G 
Lately, I have been having a major shopping dilemma. After watching, The Story of Stuff (100 times), I need to figure out how to STOP being part of the problem of creating toxic products (clothing, food products, electronics, etc) – especially as a resident of Greenpoint, where we process almost half of the city’s garbage. I need some stuff, but I need to consider the environment and my health when making purchasing decisions.
This is where…
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Fascinating article but I would BEWARE of all these so called environmental organizations that end up being self serving. What I love about the USA is that everything becomes a business.
Nevertheless, I have come to believe that our economy purely based on raw consumerism is about to hit a brick wall. I hate to use the trendy term” non sustainable” but, I’m afraid it is. We cannot simply keep working to buy products that we do not need so that we can be working making them etc. What we end up is with a plethora of garbage and old goods that are tossed out so that they may be replaced by newer ones. The result is what we have now and it’s the beginning of an environmental disaster. Food for thought and a really nicely written piece.