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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 --->( Click For TMI... )
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 --->( Click For TMI... )
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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