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Ethical Consumption  |  May 23, 2009 4:03 AM CDT

Ruchira Shah was just your average young woman with a severe addiction to cute purses and high-end kitchen tools she never used, when one fine day, she decided to quit buying anything new. For a year. After twelve months of personal environmental experiments, Ruchi felt like she wanted to make a larger positive impact, so she decided to back to school, and is currently pursuing a masters degree at...

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Bringing Others Along For The Ride

ecoI had a distinct advantage when I became an eco-nut. I lived alone. And I still live alone. Which means that if I want to buy recycled toilet paper, or eco dishwashing soap that may or may not really work, or anything else, I don't have to make sure it's okay with anyone else.

But for those of you who do have significant others/children/roommates/etc who you have to generally get along with, what do you do? If your sig o hates recycled toilet paper, do you try and convince them? How do you tell your roommate that you want to have a bunch of worms around to compost your trash?

How, in short, do you navigate living green amongst your co-habitants?