https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/ The expert help you need to live the greener, healthier life you want. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:22:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-901 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:22:12 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-901 Honestly, if people would just simplify their lives a bit, buying and using less, we’d go a long way towards solving a lot of these problems! Thanks for weighing in, Beth and Katy.

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-900 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:13:16 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-900 Nice, Diane!
Oh, the lure of hypoallergenic had me for years– I think it was Almay? Another label that means absolutely nothing. It is so confusing for all of us. Thanks for the post.
I’m with Diane and Amber– local and handmade as much as possible!

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-899 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:31:18 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-899 Diane, I agree with your response to the comments above. We do need to track this and hold Wal-Mart accountable. I’m hoping that the carnival will hit their radar and that they will realize we need a place at the table. Unfortunately, I’m not holding my breath. Like Amber, I choose to stick with local and handmade most of the time, too. I wonder if Wal-Mart would even want to talk to me since I’m not actually a customer of theirs!

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-898 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:35:10 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-898 Thanks for the feedback. The key to the success of this newest exercise in setting standards is to stay involved. Let’s not just talk about this once on our blogs. We need to track it and keep coming back to it until we’ve done what we can to ensure the standards are strong and protect us as well as the environment.

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-897 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:21:35 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-897 Your post is right on point. All these standards seem to be marketing jargon to lure people into believing what they are buying is safe. It saddens me that we all have to be scientists to understand what is in our products.
As for Walmart, I am very skeptical as to their motive since it seems like it is a pay to create standards. If you got the bucks, you can help create them. Now where is my $100,000 so I can sit at the table?

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-896 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:26:08 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-896 Diane, this is a great post with such useful information (but what else is new? You always write great posts with useful information, that’s one reason we all love you!)
Anyway, the labeling fraud continues to go on…I just learned tonight from Food and Water Watch that cows on USDA Organic Certified dairies can be fed organic CORN to meet the requirements, not put out to pasture. Of course, not all USDA Organic dairies do this – some like Organic Valley exceed the requirements — but this is incredibly disturbing.

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-895 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:03:27 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-895 It can be really hard to navigate product claims and separate the truly green from the greenwashing. What saddens me is how terms that were once legitimate, like ‘certified organic’, are continually diluted. It’s one reason I prefer to buy local and handmade whenever possible – it’s the only way I can really feel as if I know what I’m buying.
I am glad that Wal-Mart is jumping on the sustainability bandwagon. I hope they make real change. But for the moment I fear it will just be more greenwashing.

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-894 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:18:51 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-894 I know exactly how you feel, Karen.

]]> https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-893 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:31:09 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/we-need-meaningful-standards-to-protect-the-planet-and-us-too/#comment-893 How greenly deceptive it all is…no wonder I feel skeptic! I’ll never forget when I discovered the phosphate free laundry detergent I was using had “acceptable” levels of phosphates in it. Why did it say phosphate free? I was so angry.

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