Eco Friendly Mother’s Day Gifts
Mother’s Day is nearly upon us. While it’s true that all that your mother really wants for Mother’s Day is your presence at her dinner table, most good children of all ages reward mom for her hard work and dedication every day of the year with a gift. Or flowers. Or a card! This year, love your mother and your planet by selecting gifts and tokens of your appreciation (and undying love) that [...]
“If You Give Me a Day In Here with a Trash Bag…”
Last weekend, I went and spent the weekend with my mother. To be clear, my mother is a tiny bit of a hoarder. You’re not going to see her on a cable television show having a break down over things being removed from her home, but my mother’s (large) home is packed with “things” and “stuff” that serve no purpose. Since I love Postconsumers, I thought I would document my ongoing process of [...]
Eco Friendly Camping Tips
If you’re a person who loves to live green and you’re planning your summer vacations, chances are that camping is on your list of activities. After all, camping provides a chance to get near to nature as well as to reduce the carbon footprint you’re leaving behind after your vacation. But if you’re not careful, you can do just as much damage to the planet on a camping trip as you could at [...]
Vacation Souvenirs: Beware the Urge to Collect Summer “Stuff”
For many of us, summer means vacation time. Vacations, particularly ones taken with an eco friendly consciousness, can be a great way to re-energize, spend time with family and loved ones and experience new cultures and areas. However, they can also be a time when, in the name of having things to “remember” the trip by, we purchase unnecessary “stuff” that we’ll later purge and add to a land fill. Here are some [...]
What Exactly Is A Shopping Addiction?
We at Postconsumers think that our entire society is addicted to consumerism, although some lucky people – postconsumers! – have moved beyond it and find the satisfaction of enough each day. Our work is based on and produced in cooperation with the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, especially Director Peter C. Whybrow MD’s book, “American Mania: When More Is Not Enough.” Our 30-minute web course below is a good [...]
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Are Mobile Coupons Eco-Friendly?
We’ve recently talked about coupons and how they’ve become a national sensation – from reality shows about extreme couponing to daily deals all over the web. In fact, along with the daily deals, there are coupons that you can get on your mobile phone and take to the store. When we traditionally think of coupons, we think of getting newspapers in the mail, cutting out the coupons that we need, and then bringing [...]
Easter Holiday Eco Friendly Reminders
Happy Easter weekend! If you or somebody you know celebrates, please keep (and spread) the following eco friendly Easter messages along!
How Yellowstone National Park Is Becoming More Eco-Friendly
With the summer coming up, you may be thinking about where you want to go on your summer vacation. Maybe you’ve wanted to take an eco-friendly trip and want to stay in the U.S. Have you ever been to Yellowstone National Park? In the past few years, they’ve started an initiative to begin to make Yellowstone more eco-friendly, from alternative fuels, to reducing consumption, to recycling programs, to selling environmentally-friendly souvenirs in their [...]
