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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Air your Green Grievance
What are your green grievance? It can be anything from green products that don't work, non-green people who bother you, a corporation doing something unsavory, or a green goal you just can't seem to reach.
Mine for this week: The American Farmland Trust. They look like the perfect organization for me on the surface, their goals are saving farmland, growing local, and protecting the environment. However after reading everything they're sending me, I detect a definete undertone that eating from small, local farms like I do is "loco" (their word choice), and that they're more interested in preserving the farmland (if you can call it that) of the Monsanto and Cargills of the world. Not what I had in mind, thank you.
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Re: Air your Green Grievance
Oh, that's too bad! Check out PCC Farmland Trust instead! http://www.pccfarmlandtrust.org/
My very minor and petty grievance of the day is that the PCC healthy eating fair this weekend is in Edmonds. Edmonds? WTF! Ok, I know you aren't local, but its like north and totally out of the main metro area. Why not have it at one of the like 8 stores in a more central location?
I'm minorly annoyed that most vendors at our farmer's market use plastic grocery bags for customers' purchases.
I'm majorly annoyed that our city hasn't given my (cul-de-sac) street their single-stream recycling bins yet, when everyone else in the neighborhood has them.
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Because then they have the opportunity to pair your delivery with someone near you so that they don't have to make two separate trips to the same neighborhood. When you select the larger window, it opens up the chance that they will have overlapping windows to deliver to the same place. Makes perfect sense to me.
Exactly
i agree, it makes total sense to me. i've only ordered from them twice, i like the concept, but i HATE that they show up with about 30 plastic bags, and most only have 1 or 2 items in them. i wish they would just pack everything in a cardboard box- you know the stores have plenty of them leftover from receiving their shipments.... or some kind of crate that i could empty and give back to them!
We just moved into an area that has city provided bins for single stream recycling of plastics 1-7, paper, and cardboard. DH said he would be more apt to recycle now that he doesn't have to think about sorting everything.
So why in the world do I still find myself picking recyclables out of the trashcan every day? The best part is that the our crate to hold the recyclables until I take them out side is sitting out in the open and the trashcan is hidden away. You'd think he'd go the easy way and put things in the crate LOL!
My other issue is that I haven't found an EF dishwasher detergent that actually works. I've tried a few different types and they are leave me with yucky dishes. One even left us with ants!
That my company has at the bottom of every email "Consider the environment in your workplace. Avoid unnecessary printing"
Why?
1: the environment in your workplace? This phrase was not thought out at all was it? Are there going to be people drowning in paper? I know that shouldn't annoy me that they put workplace rather than the environment in general, but it does. Maybe I'm weird.
2 (and the big one): Due to this intiative to save paper, regular associates do not have access to print. Instead the manager prints every single stupid thing for each team member regardless of whether we individually need it or not. If I could do my own printing I might would print one sheet every 4 or 5 months. Instead I get a handful of crap every week. I keep them and write on the backs until their full up before recycling, but I'd rather just not have them. And if I ask to print something? Oh no, we're saving paper so I need to just save it on my desktop.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!
I just popped over to this board to ask a question about this! I can't find anything that works! I caved and bought Cascade and man it works SO much better! Ugh.
It seems like every dishwasher is different. Method tabs left a weird white film on our dishes. We use Mrs. Myers with a large splash of white vinegar, and that seems to be working pretty well.
Has this comment been eating away at you for an entire year?
I'm annoyed that I finally found a grocery store with lots of organic options and, most importantly, bulk bins (!), but the people who shop there are not nearly as hippy-like as I would imagine. Most don't even bring their own bags!
This wouldn't bother me (okay, it would, but not as much), except I really want to find something else to use instead of the plastic bags for the bulk bins, but I have the feeling the manager would look at me as if I had two heads if I asked.
I use cloth produce bags for the bulk bins. No one has ever had a problem with it. The stickers sometimes don't stick that well, but that's the only issue that I've had so far.
This is what I do too. I have these, they work great! At Whole Foods, I just write the code on the provided ties, and tie the tie around the neck of the bag.
http://www.peddlerswagon.com/p-83-cotton-produce-grain-bag.aspx
I have a new commercial to vent about. It went something like this:
Shop for local produce in you farmer's market. (sounds promising)
When you get home, wash your produce and dry them with a PAPER TOWEL.
Preserve your local produce by storing them in the fridge wrapped in PAPER TOWEL to asorb excess moisture.
Keep your kitchen counters clean by wiping them down with a PAPER TOWEL.
Buy local produce and buy BOUNTY.
And I must admit to a recent green relapse (but I'm re-reforming). I've been buying organic yogurt faithfully for awhile. This grocery shopping trip, I noticed the price went up like 40-cents, so I caved, and bought conventional. Such a mistake - As soon as I started scooping it into my lunch container, I could see all those nasty artificial colors. Considering I used to eat the conventional stuff all the time, it's crazy how immediately I am turned off by the flavor of it now. Anyway, I learned my lesson again. Good food is worth the price.
We had good luck with the Seventh Generation single-use tablet thingies...
these:
http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Generation-Clear-15-Count-Packages/dp/B001QF5TH2/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1282259397&sr=8-8
We happened upon them at a Grocery Outlet and liked them...
We're now using this stuff:
http://www.nelliesallnatural.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=8
and haven't had any negative issues with it at all.
I am the 99%.
I can't stand my neighbor! They throw away at least two overflowing trash barrels (like the big ones on wheels) every week. They could singlehandedly fill their own landfill.
I also can't stand it when cashiers insist on using plastic bags. Every single thing they scan through, you try to stop them, but then they bag and double bag. There is no point in undoing it because they'll just throw away the bags you "unused". Seriously people, there is a huge bin in my car. Just dump the stuff back in my cart with no bag! Oh, and when they wrap special things in plastic before putting it in my cloth bags, that's just too much.