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As many of you may or maynot know, I am a member of Greenpeace (for the past few years). I recycle whatever I can, and I always strive to live 'lightly'. About a week or so ago, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reaneau posted a link to the blog No Impact Man. I was interested and subscribed to the feed for LJ. I love this guy 
His blog is inspiring without any kind of preaching or guilt trips because everyone else is not doing as he does.
Reading about the No Impact experiment, along with some other things that have come up lately, have inspired me to return to being more active. Mainly, to return to the boycotts against Procter and Gamble and Kimberly Clark. The boycott of Kleenex products has always been fairly easy for me. It was the P&G boycott that was always a bit more difficult and had me reading the labels of just about everything.
This is the part that goes into Woman Issues, and may be TMI for some --->
Feminine products are something that I haven't really thought about in a while. I just buy my stuff, and go on about my merry way. Yesterday, I ran out, and had to pick up more.
Always is distributed by P&G, which sucks because this is the brand I have been using for a long time. But, Always isn't the only brand out there, so I figure I will just pick up something else. I grab a box of Kotex and flip to make sure that they are not P&G products too. They aren't. Yay! But, they are KC products.
I hate using cheap store brand pads with a passion. I poke around the isle and there seem to be literally only those three brands. The Always section is *huge*!
I remember from a few years back when I first started the boycott against P&G that I could usually rely on Dove or Johnson & Johnson for my bathroom stuff. So, further into the isle I go and I finally find Stayfree (the J&J brand). The section in the isle was so damned small that I had walked passed it twice before I found it.
This got me to thinking about reusable products again. The big strike against washable pads before was that I don't have my own washer and dryer. And I don't always have change (or the fundage) to do frequent loads of laundry.
For now, I am happy with what I have. One of the cardinal rules I go by with Green Living is 'do what you can, and don't feel bad because you aren't perfect. Every little bit helps'. I have also read somewhere that paper feminine products might be recyclable (along with qtips and other things you don't really think about). I am going to look into this more.
It's not going to be easy to go back to the boycott of P&G, but it is important enough to me to try. The timing is kind of funny for me. Right now my store is having a big P&G promotion. And while I am tempted to make up stickies that have the P&G Kills web address on them and stick them to the posters advertising the promotion, knowing that I don't buy those products anymore is enough for me for right now.
One thing that makes me really happy about my store is that we have gotten new reusable shopping bags. They advertise that they contain more recycled material than any other reusable shopping bags. They are only $0.99, and they are very sturdy. This is a great thing, I think. Charging for the plastic bags helps, but having no alternative to plastic bags was kind of shooting ourselves in the foot, I think.
There are still a lot of things that my store does that I think are pretty terrible and not ecologically sound, but even small steps move you forward.
Soon, Greenpeace will be starting a new 'Safe Seafood' campaign. I fully intend to point them in the direction of my store. From the first day that I have worked there, I have been disgusted by the live seafood department (the humane society has been here, but apparently they aren't breaking any laws by the way they treat the fish, crabs, lobsters and shrimp). I am really looking forward to Greenpeace's action on this issue. The seafood department in my store is the reason that I do not eat seafood anymore. The cruelty is obscene.
--Phae
ps - I am not looking for a debate on my politics with this post. Everyone is free to comment however they like, but I am not going to argue about whether or not I am unreasonable, a hippie, or whatever else.
reaneau posted a link to the blog No Impact Man. I was interested and subscribed to the feed for LJ. I love this guy His blog is inspiring without any kind of preaching or guilt trips because everyone else is not doing as he does.Reading about the No Impact experiment, along with some other things that have come up lately, have inspired me to return to being more active. Mainly, to return to the boycotts against Procter and Gamble and Kimberly Clark. The boycott of Kleenex products has always been fairly easy for me. It was the P&G boycott that was always a bit more difficult and had me reading the labels of just about everything.
This is the part that goes into Woman Issues, and may be TMI for some --->
Feminine products are something that I haven't really thought about in a while. I just buy my stuff, and go on about my merry way. Yesterday, I ran out, and had to pick up more.
Always is distributed by P&G, which sucks because this is the brand I have been using for a long time. But, Always isn't the only brand out there, so I figure I will just pick up something else. I grab a box of Kotex and flip to make sure that they are not P&G products too. They aren't. Yay! But, they are KC products.
I hate using cheap store brand pads with a passion. I poke around the isle and there seem to be literally only those three brands. The Always section is *huge*!I remember from a few years back when I first started the boycott against P&G that I could usually rely on Dove or Johnson & Johnson for my bathroom stuff. So, further into the isle I go and I finally find Stayfree (the J&J brand). The section in the isle was so damned small that I had walked passed it twice before I found it.
This got me to thinking about reusable products again. The big strike against washable pads before was that I don't have my own washer and dryer. And I don't always have change (or the fundage) to do frequent loads of laundry.
For now, I am happy with what I have. One of the cardinal rules I go by with Green Living is 'do what you can, and don't feel bad because you aren't perfect. Every little bit helps'. I have also read somewhere that paper feminine products might be recyclable (along with qtips and other things you don't really think about). I am going to look into this more.
It's not going to be easy to go back to the boycott of P&G, but it is important enough to me to try. The timing is kind of funny for me. Right now my store is having a big P&G promotion. And while I am tempted to make up stickies that have the P&G Kills web address on them and stick them to the posters advertising the promotion, knowing that I don't buy those products anymore is enough for me for right now.
One thing that makes me really happy about my store is that we have gotten new reusable shopping bags. They advertise that they contain more recycled material than any other reusable shopping bags. They are only $0.99, and they are very sturdy. This is a great thing, I think. Charging for the plastic bags helps, but having no alternative to plastic bags was kind of shooting ourselves in the foot, I think.
There are still a lot of things that my store does that I think are pretty terrible and not ecologically sound, but even small steps move you forward.
Soon, Greenpeace will be starting a new 'Safe Seafood' campaign. I fully intend to point them in the direction of my store. From the first day that I have worked there, I have been disgusted by the live seafood department (the humane society has been here, but apparently they aren't breaking any laws by the way they treat the fish, crabs, lobsters and shrimp). I am really looking forward to Greenpeace's action on this issue. The seafood department in my store is the reason that I do not eat seafood anymore. The cruelty is obscene.
--Phae
ps - I am not looking for a debate on my politics with this post. Everyone is free to comment however they like, but I am not going to argue about whether or not I am unreasonable, a hippie, or whatever else.
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Date: 2007-04-04 08:07 pm (UTC)You're unreasonable, a hippie, and whatever else. :)
Actually, the great thing about capitalism is choice. We get to make choices, for whatever reason, and companies can choose to respond to our choices or not. We have to be comfortable with who we are and what we stand for, and our buying behavior is a big part of that.
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Date: 2007-04-04 08:23 pm (UTC)A lot of times when people call for the boycott of gas or whatever else like that, I think it pretty dumb and not at all thought out.
But, for KC and P&G, I can think of no reason that those companies act the way they do. KC especially (I have been watching the Kleercut campaign for a year now). It boggles my mind that they refuse to even talk about their decision. Some things are just too unpalatable to let slide.
--Phae