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Study: 98 Percent of "Eco-Friendly" Products Make Misleading Claims
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenwashing, business, lies, deception, dishonesty, corporate, corruption, consumers, abuse, money, marketing, society, green, greenliving, greenproducts, eco-friendly, conservation, sustainable, shopping )

Tom
- 186 days ago - motherjones.com
A study of 4,000 "eco-friendly" consumer products on supermarket shelves found that 98 percent make false or misleading claims. The study found rampant greenwashing in every product category. Twenty-two percent featured a meaningless "green label" badge.
In Defense of PETA's Total Stupidity
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, eco-friendly, food, garden, sustainable, society, Sustainabililty, peta )

Nick
- 184 days ago - sfgate.com
Who, pray who, will save the houseflies? And our sanity?
PepsiCo Goes Green With Organic Garden
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic, health, food, diet, nutrition, green, eco-friendly, sustainable, interesting, humans, healthy, environment, coolstuff )

Elena
- 186 days ago - lohud.com
Zoe Feldman, an employee at PepsiCo, started an organic, employee-run vegetable and herb garden at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase
Checking Out the Chicks
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, food, garden, goodnews, greenliving, healthy, interesting, organic, society )

Michelle
- 190 days ago - economist.com
ONE day Judith Haller was watching television and saw that Martha Stewart had chickens. "I was very envious that she had her own chicken manure," she recalls. So last year, she got a couple of chickens on behalf of her vegetable garden.
Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun / Highlighting Rooftop Gardens From SF to NYC!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: rooftop gardens, urban farming, Bay Localize, San Francisco, NYC, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities )

Larry
- 191 days ago - nytimes.com
City dwellers have long cultivated pots of tomatoes on top of their buildings. But farming in the sky is a fairly recent development in the green roof movement, in which owners have been encouraged to replace blacktop with plants, often just carpets of su
Bullet-Proof (and Green) Building Material That's Banned in California
Green Lifestyle  (tags: home, sustainable, eco-friendly )

Hugh
- 190 days ago - greenerbuildings.com
Ever wanted to live in a bullet-proof -- or even simply a green -- structure? One would think that a progressive state like California would allow for the use of autoclaved aerated concrete, which is energy efficient, waterproof, and bullet-proof. Not so.
US Corn Lowers Fertility
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food, healthy, organic, greenliving, GM corn, lowered fertility )

Michelle
- 191 days ago - organicfoodee.com
A long-term feeding trial commissioned by the Austrian government found mice fed on genetically modified corn had fewer offspring and lower birth rates.
YouTube - Food, Inc. Trailer   video
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food inc, trailer )

Elderberr
- 194 days ago - youtube.com
How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been
Pledge to Be Veg for 30 Days
Green Lifestyle  (tags: vegetarian lifestyle, pledge, organic, green, greenliving, conservation, environment, eco-friendly, health, food )

Simone
- 213 days ago - examiner.com
I know you're out there. Out there reading this, contemplating making the leap into the strange new world of what I like to call "veg-ism". Maybe you're afraid of being teased. Maybe you think you'll miss burgers too much. Maybe you think tofu
Vegetarian Diet Could Equal Longer Life- VIDEO
Green Lifestyle  (tags: vegetarian, lifestyle, celebrities, food, greenliving, organic, healthy )

Simone
- 213 days ago - myfoxtampabay.com
Kevin Bacon, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi, Kristen Bell-- just some of the celebrities PETA has named "Sexiest Vegetarians Alive" If done the right way, Tampa General Registered Dietician Sheryl Hill says vegetarians and vegans can tap into the
 
 
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