Grist, the Seattle-based eco-news provider, is still getting mileage out of its back-to-school shopping guide.
It’s hip!
It’s cool!
It’s expensive!
Quick round-up:
A New Leaf Think &Smile notebook can be had for $5.99.
Even better is the tree-free banana paper notebook, $7.95 for 70 sheets.
In the computer department, check out the Lenovo Thinkpad X300. The Green Electronics Council gave it a gold star, but it’ll set you back $1,839.36. That’s on sale, folks, down from $2.725.
In the words of Washington Post writer Monica Hesse, “Congregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy.”
Disillusioned, despair not!
We have a Martin Luther, and her name is Annie Leonard. You may have already seen her cutesy yet powerful video, The Story of Stuff. It’s only 20 minutes, and moves quickly through a history of consumerism.
Leonard takes a fierce stab at standard consumption. Her video is a veritable 95 Theses.
But I’m still looking for an organization that rates the green movement on the plethora of products it now markets. If you know of such an organization, comment below or email me so I can check it out and post it here.
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