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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jen[/i] [br][b]Eco-Friendly Consumption? Critics Don’t Buy It[/b] [b]by Abigail Goldman Published on Friday, November 23, 2007 by The Los Angeles Times[/b] What’s the green approach to the holidays? If you listen to the marketers, manufacturers and retailers, it’s all about buying environmentally sensitive products — biodegradable cards, gift wrap made from wastepaper and glass objets d’art fashioned from old beer bottles. Some critics are quick to assail the notion that you can go green by spending money, saying that this kind of eco-Christmas is more artificial than a plastic tree. But others call the trend a way to ease consumers into a greener way of life. “In a perfect world, the one we don’t live in right now, there’s something ironic about buying your way to green,” said Deborah Barrow, founder of The Daily-Green, a Hearst-owned online environmental guide. “But we live in this world, and this world has people who are heavily invested in a consumerist society and yet they’re more and more interested in going green.” And in a year with relatively modest expectations for holiday sales, that sounds a lot like opportunity. Read the rest at http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-greengive23nov23,0,5122504.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business [brown][size=1]The View From My Boots: [green]www.bovesboots.blogspot.com[/green] [/size=1][/brown] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.