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  Plastic Made From Plants: PepsiCo Announces New Green Bottle

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  Ethical Consumption: After years of research and development, PepsiCo says they've mastered the petroleum-free plastic bottle, and plans to put bottles made from 100% ren

  

  Sarena Ulibarri • March 16 • 2

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  Coca-Cola Invests in UK Bottle Recycling Facility

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  Ethical Consumption: Coca-Cola Enterprises has partnered with ECO Plastics to expand a recycling center in Lincolnshire, UK. The recycling center, which recycles plastic

  

  Sarena Ulibarri • March 08 • 1

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  Green Products: Finding a green toothbrush

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  Ethical Consumption: Ethical consumption is an odd principle to follow when you live in an extremely use-and-throw society. There are so many aspects of green living that

  

  Akhila Vijayaraghavan • September 03 • 0

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  Sustainable Living in Home Improvement: Using Salvaged Lumber

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  Ethical Consumption: As times change, so do notions of what constitutes a green product for home improvement. Once upon a time, harvesting wood was considered unsustaina

  

  Madeline Ravich • August 11 • 0

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  New Ethical Consumption Series: Sustainable Living in Home Improvement

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  Ethical Consumption: This post marks the beginning of a series on how to incorporate ethical consumption considerations into home improvement. At this point in my life, t

  

  Madeline Ravich • August 05 • 0

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  Eco Fashion Week Vancouver 2010: Ethical Style on the Runway

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  Ethical Consumption: Only seven short months after hosting the Winter Olympics, Vancouver is now organizing an additional showcase of skill and dedication: Eco Fashion We

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • July 22 • 1

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  Lara Miller: Layer Sustainable Over Green in Eco Sophistication

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  Ethical Consumption: Lara Miller, born and raised in Chicago, is an eco fashion designer who has created a collection that has been described by Elle Magazine as, "sultry

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • July 14 • 0

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  Sustainable Fashion with Edge: Warrior Princess Bahar Shahpar Creates Vegan Heels for Summer 2010

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  Ethical Consumption: Eco fashion designer Bahar Shahpar has collaborated with vegan shoe maker Cri de Coeur, and the result is a blast of color infused sustainable footwe

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • July 06 • 3

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  Starbucks Disposable Cups Deemed "Unrecyclable" by Major Recycling Companies

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  Ethical Consumption: Although Starbucks has been praised for their many green endeavors, there also has been criticism of the company, claiming that the paper cups (that

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • July 02 • 7

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  Recycled with Style

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  Social Enterprise: Even the most eco-conscious, animal friendly consumer craves a little style; social entrepreneur Joni Johnson met those needs beautifully with stylis

  

  Barbara Zaha • June 29 • 0

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  Do-Gooder's Design Project: Recycled Paper, Recycled Litter, Recycled Fashion

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  Ethical Consumption: Yesterdays News(R), a brand of environmentally conscious pet litter, has announced the Do-Gooder Design Challenge, where top eco fashion designers wi

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 25 • 0

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  Starbucks Cups: Ethical Consumption for Coffeeholics

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  Ethical Consumption: Starbucks sells between 15 and 30 million cups of coffee per day worldwide, translating into about 6 billion paper cups of waste annually. For coffee

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 24 • 0

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  Eco Shoes: Plastic Style Meets Ethical Consumption

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  Ethical Consumption: Melissa, a shoe company in Brazil, is taking plastic recycling to new fashion heights heels for the environmentally conscious! If you loved the "jel

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 14 • 0

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  Trashion: Fashion with Ethics

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  Ethical Consumption: Trashion is exactly what it sounds like: fashion made from "trash." The creative process involves making clothing, accessories, and objects for the

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 10 • 2

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  The Uniform Project: Social Entrepreneur Funds Education Program by Wearing the Same Dress for 365 Days in a Row

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  Ethical Consumption: Sustainable fashion is a growing trend, and Sheena Matheiken of New York decided to be a social entrepreneur by doing her part to spread the word. Sh

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 07 • 0

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  Ethical Consumption's New Face: Courtni Vecchiarelli

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  Ethical Consumption: Courtni Vecchiarelli, a new writer for the ethical consumption section of Justmeans, graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The commun

  

  Courtni Vecchiarelli • June 03 • 2

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  Maker Faire: Celebrating DIY

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  Ethical Consumption: One of the ways in which we can promote sustainable living is to learn how to do things and how to make things ourselves. This idea of a DIY ethic --

  

  Audrey Watters • May 25 • 0

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  Apps for Environmental Awareness: Use Your Smartphone to Battle Invasive Species

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  Ethical Consumption: There are many ways in which the new applications available for mobile phones are helping to promote environmental awareness and green living. And no

  

  Audrey Watters • May 18 • 0

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  Living Green & Simple without Oil

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  Ethical Consumption: Our individual ability to truly try living green by simplifying our lifestyles is an incredible and underestimated force. With the social and ecologi

  

  Tiffany Finley • May 06 • 2

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  Reversal of Fortunes; A bigger picture of the oil spill and your role in saving the oceans

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  Ethical Consumption: Dedicated to my mother and ocean-stewardess on her birthday BBC world news reports that as up to 5,000 barrels of oil a day spill into the gulf coas

  

  Lindsey Moore • May 06 • 2

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