A new poll shows that consumers may not be as inclined to buy green products in a recession as they had been before. “Pollsters Populus surveyed 1,999 adults to gauge how environmental concerns had shifted since the onset of the recession. They found 81 per cent of respondents paid more attention to cost/value than to […]
Entries Categorized as 'green'
Being Green Isn’t Good Enough
April 30, 2009
Lose Weight, Save a Tree?
April 28, 2009
Last week, a study done by the International Journal of Epidemiology by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical medicine concluded that overweight people are harmful to the environment. When I first heard about this I thought it was kind of an interesting topic and correlation, but didn’t give it much more thought than that. As […]
Earth Day at The White House
April 22, 2009
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to check in on the progress of President Obama’s goal to create a clean energy economy. The proposed “Recovery Act” is supposed to create green jobs, redevelop urban communities, and help ensure that new industries around energy efficiency and renewables will become part of the backbone of the […]