12 Companies Offering Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Products

(ref: Greenpeace Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide, greenpeace.org)
Recycled tissue products help protect ancient forests, clean water, and wildlife habitat and it’s easier on the Earth to make tissues from paper instead of trees.
Greenpeace created a product guide ranking various tissue products based on three criteria:

100% recycled content
At least 50% post-consumer recycled content
Bleached without toxic chlorine [...]

9 Ways That A Hybrid Car Can Make Economic Sense

(ref: Green America’s RealGreen Newsletter, Spring 2009 www.coopamerica.org)
"A lot of people get sticker shock when they look at the price of a new hybrid… the added expense won’t pay itself back very quickly on fuel savings alone… But this quick analysis misses a number of hybrids’ other economic benefits." — Bryan Palmintier, "Rethinking the Cost [...]

5 Reasons Not To Drink Bottled Water

(ref: http://chrisbaskind.greenoptions.com, 6/20/2007)
Lighter Footstep editor Chris Baskind explored this issue in a popular blog posting. We’ve summarized his list here…
1. Bottled water isn’t a good value. It works out to 5 cents/ounce. Compare that to the price of gas which at $3.80/gallon works out to less than 3 cents/ounce.
2. No healthier than tap water. Because [...]

24 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

(ref: Low Carbon Diet: A 30 day program to lose 5000 pounds by David Gershon)
The primary cause of global warming is carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. The typical American household generates 55,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually. Through our purchases, we are also indirectly responsible for another 17%. [...]