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Goodguide.com - the website that makes it super easy for you to get all the information you want about over 100,000 products (and counting).

The team of chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists and enivronmental experts at goodguide.com analyse the products based on how ethical, healthy and environmentally friendly they are and give them a simple rating out of 10. You can see the breakdown of the ratings in every area and can even personalise your settings so that the site finds products that sit better with what’s most important to you. There’s even a toolbar for shopping online and and mobile app which scans barcodes in the supermarket.

It’s great to see technology making it easier to shop consciously.

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But while the explosive growth in “eco-lifestyle” markets may seem good, in reality it is a perpetuation of the consumerist economic model that has largely got us into our current mess (…) Its just that the “yes, you can have it all” mentality of some environmentalists is not just hypocritical, but potentially deceitful and distracting.

Hypocrisy of champagne environmentalists is deceitful and distracting

This for me sums up everything. Being green means consuming LESS… much less. Point blank. Everything else is marketing for the masses.

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Case in point

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Practically Green

Practically Green has a proprietary methodology that helps turn the complexities of lifecycle impact assessments, greenhouse gas emissions data, materials safety data sheets, and scientific health or research studies into a simple, easy impact number that real people can understand: POINTS.

The underlying expectation is that you will be doing yourself, your family, and the planet good if you minimize your water use, non-renewable energy use, toxin exposure, and resource consumption/waste. 

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Last Friday we celebrated Farsang(Carneval) in the form of environmental problems, location Fogasház. Little did we know that we would be 5 people dressed out of about 50 non-dressed out people, perhaps better for us as our environmental problems got all the more attention for that. The four environmental problems presented true imaginative costumes were; oil drenched bird/oil catastrophes(Guri), imported orange/imported food(Kati), water with floating trash/water pollution(Edina) and sawed down tree/deforestation(Milla). There was also tons of other interesting programs happening as different people showed of their talents in best Kusturica style!

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Farsang Party! (That’s Hungarian for carneval)

The fun starts on Friday at 8 o’clock at Fogasház! Or rather, it starts way before that, because you have to think of a costume first, make it and then dress up! The theme set for the night is that of environmental problems, but we promise not to arrest you if you show up wearing something else. The most important things is that you dress up in some way or another. And if you manage to use recycled materials to make your costume, you get extra karma points from Messzelátó.
Did we mention that there’ll be jugglers? In recycled costumes? Doing a show? You can’t miss it! You just can’t!





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As the food movement matures and grows, it could end up being the best vehicle available for achieving environmental goals. The industrialized way we farm today damages our land, our water and our climate. Reforming agriculture and promoting sustainability won’t just help us get better and healthier food; it will also fight greenhouse-gas emissions and water pollution.

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Very America-centered, though kind of thought-provoking article on how people’s concern for what they eat does good for the environment. The article has a point - food, the stuff most people deal with at least three times a day, has a lot more potential for making people care than polar bears or deforestation on the other side of the planet. It’s a shame, but it’s a certain component of how we work: we care about what’s close to us, and sometimes have difficulties relating to what isn’t.

Do you think the food movement can save the world?

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