Another great idea out of the San Francisco Bay area! This time a 27-year-old game developer decided to offer incentives to stores in his area to boost their eco-friendliness. He promised the stores a “mob” of consumers to support their business. In exchange, the store had to promise a percentage of the mob’s spending would be used to “green” the store’s lighting, power supply, etc. The experiment proved to be more successful than anyone anticipated and the Carrotmob promises to strike again. Just goes to show yet again, the power we consumers can wield. Our wallets are our weapons!
Find out more by visiting http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/carrotmob-44052208?src=nl&mag=tdg&list=dgr&kw=ist

Okay, so I packed on a few pounds over the winter! Now comes the annual springtime ritual of ridding myself of it. My brilliant scheme to only eat half of every meal and toss the rest is defeated when I learn that close to one-fifth of landfill is wasted food. And even though I compost most of our food waste, the stat nonetheless sobers me up enough to recognize that wasting food is not the answer. So…I think I’ll simply start eating off my kids’ dishes. Instead of heaping helpings of my own hospitality, I’ll have a respectable morsel or two. It’s a fine line I walk between satisfying my hunger and indulging my love of food.
To find out more about our food waste, visit http://www.wastedfood.com/

Just what you asked for – the bottom line on which companies walk the green talk…and which ones aren’t worthy of your green (as in money). Climate Counts has just released its latest scorecard, a pocket-sized list that you can print off and tuck into your wallet. Then…when faced with a purchase (do I buy the Adidas or the Nikes? the Big Mac or the Whopper?_, pull out your cheat-sheet and breathe easy.
Answers?? To the first: Nikes…according to Climate Counts. To the second: neither…according to me.

http://www.climatecounts.org/scorecard_overview.php