Comments on: Do Your Dishes http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/ adding up the little things that make a big difference Fri, 25 May 2012 04:06:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: jeff http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-26 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:49:53 +0000 http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-26 turns out the Seventh Generation dishwashing detergent isn't tested on animals either. turns out the Seventh Generation dishwashing detergent isn’t tested on animals either.

]]> by: jmhunt http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-18 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:10:14 +0000 http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-18 I've bene using <a href="http://consumer.simplegreen.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">Simple Green</a> all purpose cleaner for a while and am very happy with it for my regular cleaning. They've come out with some new products it looks like. They claim a lot of the same things are Seventh Generation. I can buy a big jug of Simple Green from BJs or Target easily. I'm still working on my jug that is 3+ years old, and NO, that is not a sign of how little I clean :-). I’ve bene using Simple Green all purpose cleaner for a while and am very happy with it for my regular cleaning. They’ve come out with some new products it looks like. They claim a lot of the same things are Seventh Generation. I can buy a big jug of Simple Green from BJs or Target easily. I’m still working on my jug that is 3+ years old, and NO, that is not a sign of how little I clean :-) .

]]> by: jeff http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-17 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:29:58 +0000 http://onelittlething.org/today/2007/02/27/do-your-dishes/#comment-17 I've seen the Seventh Generation TP in the supermarket but wondered if it's really any more environmentally friendly than the stuff I buy (which says "100% paper from paper" -- for whatever that's worth). I mean the lovely green pictures are definitely inspiring, but what do we really know about what goes into these things?   I have a similar problem with eggs that claim to be "cage-free," "cruelty-free," "vegetarian," etc etc etc. I've heard that chicken factories can qualify as "cage-free" even if they have thousands of birds cramped into one giant space. And "free range" can mean very little too.   It seems that a ton of companies say a lot of stuff on their labels that don't actually mean anything significant (like "natural").   The advice I've heard most often is "buy local." Get to know a farm and their practices. But that's not always practical, and a lot of stuff, like TP and diswashing detergent, don't come from a farm. So does anybody know a trustworthy Web site where all these products are checked into and verified for real environmental and humanitarian issues? I’ve seen the Seventh Generation TP in the supermarket but wondered if it’s really any more environmentally friendly than the stuff I buy (which says “100% paper from paper” — for whatever that’s worth). I mean the lovely green pictures are definitely inspiring, but what do we really know about what goes into these things?

 

I have a similar problem with eggs that claim to be “cage-free,” “cruelty-free,” “vegetarian,” etc etc etc. I’ve heard that chicken factories can qualify as “cage-free” even if they have thousands of birds cramped into one giant space. And “free range” can mean very little too.

 

It seems that a ton of companies say a lot of stuff on their labels that don’t actually mean anything significant (like “natural”).

 

The advice I’ve heard most often is “buy local.” Get to know a farm and their practices. But that’s not always practical, and a lot of stuff, like TP and diswashing detergent, don’t come from a farm. So does anybody know a trustworthy Web site where all these products are checked into and verified for real environmental and humanitarian issues?

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