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Greenopia's directories guide consumers to the businesses and products necessary to eat, shop, and live green. All listings are independently researched using 62 unique sets of category-specific criteria, ensuring that each business and produce meets precise qualifications. We never accept payment for listings.
The Greenopia Leaf Ratings allow consumers to assess the overall greenness of a business or product. Four-Leaf Rated listings meet our most stringent criteria while One-Leaf Rated listings meet our minimum qualifying standards. The Greenopia Product Scorecard allows consumers to easily see the specific areas greenness.
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The history of Thanksgiving is complex. I'm not talking complex like the time Aunt Grace threw turkey in Uncle Ray's face or cousin Rowena brought home her new husband and his three other wives. I'm talking complex like, first there were the Pilgrims and trusting Native Americans with turkey and maize in 1621. But then it was 200 years until President...
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A major indicator of efficiency, the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, may be losing ground. A feature article in the October 2008 issue of Consumer Reports Magazine makes this surprising argument. The major non-profit organization says more electronics are meeting Energy Star standards. Why? Not the reason you might think. Instead of...
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Countless shops and grocery store chains are featuring local produce for their customers. Since not all of us can make it to a farmers' market on a weekly basis, this is a dream come true for locavores. But many times, it can be hard to tell where food comes from if it's NOT local. As of September 30th, all food manufactures and stores will be forced to...
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There are many great things about the holidays - warm fires, soothing hot chocolate, and memorable visits with family members we only get to see once a year. Do you really want to spend countless hours in the kitchen, missing all of the lively conversations and priceless jokes? Local restaurants, specializing in seasonal and organic ingredients, can...
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Green Gripes
Navigating the world of green toothpaste is a little like trying to find a good handbag at a discount store - lots dodging of formidable land mines (aka ladies) who are determined to find that $50 Kate Spade, even if it means blowing up a few people along the way. So why bother? Well, because it's not considered a food, conventional toothpaste contains lots of...
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Green Guide
As consumers, we go through a lot of stuff and generate tons (literally!) of garbage every day. Nowadays it's easy to ensure that it doesn't all wind up at the dump. Why: "Every day the city takes 3,500 tons a day to the landfills," says Cynthia Ruiz of the Los Angeles Department of Public Works. "We have only one earth and only so much more room in the landfills...
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10 Green Gadgets You Haven't Heard of Yet!
Take one look at your fave cool gadget, whether it's a matchbox-sized mp3 player containing 100 albums worth of music, to a deck-of-cards sized device that serves as a phone, email retrieval device, GPS, and podcast player, and you know that we are already living in the future.
But the truth is that the energy and resources needed to make and run these gadgets (and the ability to keep doing...
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Greenopia Launches Green Product Guide (Holiday Shoppers, Take Note!)
We all want a guide to buying greener products; there's a lot of conflicting information out there! It can be hard to tell what choices are going to really make a difference and which companies are just trying to convince you to buy their stuff instead of the other guy's.
We're here with a solution: The whole Greenopia Team is excited to announce our new Green Products Guide! Check it out-...
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The Eco Gentleman's Shaving Kit: Back to Basics
Yesterday I began to think back upon those heady days of yore. I mean the halcyon days of the late 90s. Twas a simpler time, hearing the soon to be classic anthems of Britney Spears, Blink 182 and the immortal Lou Bega. And yet, lurking in the background with perfectly gelled hair spiked above the forehead and one fingernail painted black was a coming plague. Metrosexuality.
Championed by...
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Green or Greenwashing? Apple Computers
No environmentalist on earth is perfect, despite the occasional smug jerk who would have you believe otherwise (I find purple nurples an effective way of dealing with those types. Try and be smug with a twisted nipple, I dare you).
I, for example, am an Internet writer. While that offers all sorts of eco-benefits like the ability to work from home and therefore lower carbon emissions from...
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