September Wrap-Up
It's time for the September wrap-up. It's been a busy month at Really Natural. We welcomed students back to school by selling them our old stuff on Craigslist, and offering tips on how to green your dorm room, courtesy of MTV and Tufts University.
Green building get several shout outs, from Brad Pitt, MIT and The New York Times.
Popeye's favorite vegetable was in the news as the FDA banned fresh spinach after E. coli breakouts across the country. Thankfully, that's a thing of the past, and we can continue to enjoy spinach salad from our CSA share or our Organic Veggies By Mail care package.
We talked about several green, natural and organic products that make our lives easier, including bamboo dinner plates, the Simple Human Cabinet Mount Trash System, the Envirocycle Backyard Composter, organic playdough, the Green Power Gold Juice Extractor, UnPetroleum, Seventh Generation recycled toilet paper, and Oops I Pooped biodegradable dog waste bags.
And then there are the things we want, including Herman Miller's Leaf lamp, Andy Gregg's bike chairs, Japanese message beans, and Timberland's Pacific Grove Mary Janes.
We featured stories on groups and individuals who making the world greener in several senses of the word: Richard Branson's $3 billion pledge to fight global warming, REBAR Group's parking interventions in San Francisco, the City of Boston's Best Bites campaign, Parents Against Junk Food, the Eco-Pioneers, Timberland, and John Abrams of South Mountain Company.
And we had tips on how to make your own life greener, from washing your clothes in cold water to how to renovate your lawn.
Last but not least, we started a section called Weekend Reading, which covers the books we've been reading and hearing about. On this month's list: Eric Schlosser's Chew on This, The Company We Keep, and, courtesy of author Deirdre Dolan, The Complete Organic Pregnancy.
Okay, I think that's just about everything. Everything but the pepitas and our continuing quest for a natural deodorant that works.
Whew. No wonder we're exhausted. And excited for October.
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Posted by Jess Brooks at October 1, 2006 7:39 PM
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