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		<title>Tab for a Cause — An Easy Way to Raise Funds for Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/28/tab-for-a-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

My answer to this question is always the same: Pay my tuition. Most college students don’t have money to spare, and if you manage to earn a few bucks, it goes towards books or school supplies. So, when someone asks you to donate to charity, it’s hard to contribute.

Four college students – Kevin Jennison, Alex Groth, Joel Detweiler, and Sam Ward-Packard tackled this problem. On August 4th they launched Tab for a Cause (TFAC), a browser extension that allows the user to donate to charity simply by opening a new tab....]]></description>
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		<title>VeeV Greens the Liquor Industry with Sustainable Spirits Made from Acai</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/08/20/veev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Green</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=16175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When brothers Courtney and Carter Reum decided to launch a spirits company, they were open to different possibilities—but one element of the concept was a certainty. “We knew it would include a sustainability component,” Courtney Reum says. “Nobody was doing anything sustainable in alcohol. There was a lack of innovation. So we realized we had a chance to do something really unique.”


The brothers resigned their positions as investment bankers with Goldman Sachs and set out to “green” the liquor industry.

That was four years and more than 500,000 bottles ago. Since the first 7,500-bottle batch of VeeV Acai Spirit™ came off the line at Rigby, Idaho-based Distilled Resources Inc., this duo has racked up some pretty compelling eco-cred....]]></description>
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		<title>Graphic Designer Combines Art and Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2011/07/29/designarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alenka Figa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes courage to look at your profession and say, “We are part of the problem.” But Tania Kac, a freelance graphic designer who offers eco-friendly design solutions, does just that.

“We’re generating ideas that end up in the trash,” says Kac. “I’m passionate about design, but I also see how it impacts the environment. We create billions and billions of pieces of trash every year.” ...]]></description>
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		<title>Woofables &#8211; A Gourmet Bakery Your Dog Will Love</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/12/04/woofables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Woofables, The Gourmet Dog Bakery in Coralville, Iowa, sells dog food, it has the light scent of a real bakery. Owner Laura Taylor, who used to work in marketing, now spends her days crafting handmade treats for canines out of all-natural, all-human-grade ingredients.

While frosting a cake, Taylor explains that everything made in the store can be eaten by people; they’ll just think it tastes bland. Salt is unhealthy for dogs, so items are flavored with pumpkin, peanut butter, and cinnamon. Frosting is made with carob and yogurt and tastes like white chocolate....]]></description>
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		<title>Taproot Nature Experience Deepens Children&#8217;s Connection to the Natural World</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/11/26/taproot-nature-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taproot Nature Experience was founded on the simple idea that kids need to have time outdoors.

Launched in September 2007 by Zac Wedemeyer and his wife, Elesa, this Iowa City-based company has several different programs that connect children with nature: an after-school program; a summer camp; and Sprouts, a program for pre-school-aged children.

Wedemeyer says that kids used to be allowed to go outside more, but now parents are afraid to let their children out of the house alone. As a former elementary-school teacher, he saw firsthand how little time kids spend in nature and how much time they spend watching television and playing video games....]]></description>
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		<title>Karmic B.S.™ Sanitized Bovine Excrement &#8211; A &#8220;Greeting Jar&#8221; with Laughter, Bite, and Good Karma</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/11/10/b-s-in-a-jar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=14846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Hand someone a jar of Karmic B.S.™ sanitized bovine excrement, and their first reaction is likely to be confusion," says ecopreneur Joe Hennager. "They see the bull and the yin-yang in our logo — and the pile of bull poop — and they usually look up with a question in their eyes.

"But the second they tip the jar to read the punch line on top, they burst out laughing. They get it. The person giving them the jar is saying, 'This is full of B.S. &#038; so are you!'

"The idea of karma is that you get what you give," says Hennager, who also happens to be my husband and the co-owner of Blue Planet Green Living. "The yin-yang symbol in our logo represents the idea of 'what goes around comes around,' which is another of the punch lines we use. After all, this is real, sanitized B.S. (and you know what that means). When someone gives you B.S., you can give it back — literally — with our adult novelty gift." ...]]></description>
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		<title>Software to Hold &#8220;Greenwashers&#8221; Accountable</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/10/28/greenwashers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=14829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that “going green” has become the next big thing in the corporate world. Riding the wave of consumers’ growing interest in environmental sustainability, companies are launching major ad campaigns to tout their green credentials. But many of their claims are misleading or downright false. The ads are compelling, but how are we to know who’s telling the truth? “Greenwashing” is eroding the credibility of well-intentioned green businesses and turning would-be green consumers into skeptics. ...

The development of Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) software is well underway, with roughly 60 vendors bringing solutions to market. ECA software enables companies to track their carbon footprint and the footprint of their suppliers as well as the impact of customer use of their products. It’s a promising innovation that can help us manage corporate America’s environmental footprint, but it’s still at the early stages of adoption. We need a number of things to happen for the ECA market to mature and develop environmental accounting to the same level as financial accounting....]]></description>
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		<title>ReUse Connection &#8211; Ideas for Repurposing, Freely Shared</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/31/reuse-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/?p=14684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Moise is the founder of ReUse Connection, a Facebook page and future website dedicated to finding alternative uses for items or materials people might otherwise throw away. For example, do you ever wonder what to do with used plastic tape dispensers? ReUse Connection readers suggested ideas as varied as making candle holders, using them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My 5: Jennie Nigrosh, The Green Garmento, President and Co-Founder</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/28/my-5-jennie-nigrosh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) asks our interviewees to answer two questions that give us insights into their thinking about the planet we all share. Today, Jennie Nigrosh, president and co-founder of The Green Garmento, gives us her responses. The Green Garmento is a reusable polypropylene bag that replaces the ubiquitous, single-use, plastic dry cleaning bags.  

BPGL: What are the five most important things we can do to protect the planet?

NIGROSH:

1. Education. We have to learn where the problems are, understand the answers, and do the best we can to solve them....]]></description>
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		<title>Breeze Dryer – Eco-Friendly Solutions for Drying Your Laundry</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/20/breeze-dryer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why do you care about drying clothes outside?” Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) asked Gary Sutterlin, President and CEO of Breeze Dryer. “Do you have a passion for this, or is it just a business?

“For us, it goes beyond that,” Sutterlin said. “It really was a life lesson for our children. I’m a pharmacist by training, my wife’s a Ph.D. by training. I was doing very well in the pharmaceutical industry as an executive and pretty much walked away overnight. Our passion was to make a difference in this world. We found that medium through clotheslines.”

The clotheslines that Sutterlin and his wife, Gayle, sell are made by Hills, an Australian manufacturer known for quality and reliability. We interviewed Sutterlin by phone from his home in Pennsylvania....]]></description>
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		<title>Working for Green &#8211; A &#8220;Video-Based Web Community&#8221; of Ecopreneurs</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/18/working-for-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A big part of what we’re doing — and what gives me great passion — are the personal success stories about individuals,” says Susan Neisloss. “I can’t tell you how important it is for me to be able to share these stories and to have people give us good ideas. That is the key to building this community.”

Neisloss is speaking about the community of people who visit Working for Green, the website she has published for about a year. A seasoned broadcaster and reporter, she interviews ecopreneurs who are making a living by starting and running environmentally friendly businesses....  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Garmento &#8211; An Eco-Friendly Dry Cleaning Tote</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/08/17/the-green-garmento/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Using The Green Garmento for your dry cleaning is similar to the reusable totes movement, which started as something grocery stores were offering and has changed the way people do their grocery shopping,” says Jennie Nigrosh, president and co-founder of The Green Garmento.

Nigrosh’s product is a dry cleaning bag that consumers use over and over again, both as a hamper at home and as a way to transport their dry cleaning without plastic bags. “Way beyond the fact that we have an interesting product that helps make life easier, helps to organize your closet, and helps you be green all at the same time,” Nigrosh adds, “it’s a new category.

Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) interviewed Nigrosh by phone from her California office to learn more about The Green Garmento as well as its acceptance in the dry-cleaning world and in homes around the nation....]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability &#8211; A Personal Journey&#8230; by Stuart W. Rose, Ph.D.</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/06/21/sustainability-a-personal-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started reading Sustainability by Stuart W. Rose, Ph.D., I expected to learn about the innovative community  he and his wife, Trina, had designed and built in Poquoson, Virginia. And I did. But I also learned many more things about sustainable communities and futurism that I hadn't expected.

The book is an easy read, but also sort of quirky. Rose has a habit of ending one thought with ellipses and trailing off into a new paragraph. He has an interesting idea about where to place commas (e.g., as the last character before closing parentheses) — not exactly standard English composition. But it's kind of charming in its literary naiveté.

Rose, however, is far from naive. As readers learn at the beginning of the book, "Dr. Rose is a registered architect, and a graduate structural engineer. He holds a doctorate in organizational development, has been a professor at three major universities, and has worked for several decades as an educator and a consultant to architects, consulting engineers, and other design professionals. Sustainability is arranged in chronological chapters, beginning "Circa 1985" with the author's professional and personal concerns about global sustainability. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade Connects Local Producers with Global Consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/03/30/fair-trade-connects-local-producers-with-global-consumers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Kimble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zulugrass  necklaces are at home in both Kenya’s pasturelands and a trendy boutique in Los Angeles. A colorful, coiled group of The Leakey Collection’s Zulugrass™ strands costs $39.95. But what the price tag doesn’t mention is that the woman who cut, dyed, and beaded the native Kenyan grass into this necklace is earning enough money to feed and educate her family for years to come.

Katy and Philip Leakey founded The Leakey Collection™ after a devastating drought a decade ago destroyed the livelihoods of their neighbors in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. As the landscape became charred and depleted, the community’s men moved north to find grazing grounds for their cattle, and the women and children were left behind with no source of income....

Recently, Philip and Katy visited one of these retail outlets — Zero Minus Plus in Santa Monica, California — to discuss the local impact of buying fair trade products. “Fair trade is a response to globalization,” Philip said. “Several decades ago, people produced [goods] for their local markets. With the internationalization of markets, many producers lost their buyers.” Fair trade is a market-based attempt to connect these producers with their new, global consumers, focusing on ethical and sustainable business practices....]]></description>
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		<title>Hallowell Acadia Is Revolutionizing the Heating Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/03/03/hallowell-acadia-is-revolutionizing-the-heating-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Hennager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you heat and cool your home? Do you have both a furnace and an air conditioner? What if you could install a single, highly efficient, and environmentally sound system to handle both heating and cooling?

The Acadia, designed and built by Hallowell International, is a revolutionary, next-generation, air-source heat pump — the first that functions efficiently in cold climates down to -30˚F. Even residents of Canada and New England can enjoy comfortable indoor temperatures year ’round without the use of fossil fuels.

Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with Duane Hallowell, president and co-founder of Hallowell International, to learn about the latest innovation in heat pumps....]]></description>
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		<title>My Wedding Workbook Simplifies Wedding Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/03/02/my-wedding-workbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Steve Feingertz's fiancée was planning their wedding, she wanted to find something besides a big paper binder to help her keep organized. But, she couldn’t find anything online.

So Feingertz and his business partner, Jeff Kear, set about creating My Wedding Workbook, an online site to help couples plan their weddings. The two men had been building websites together for about ten years, but they didn’t realize how much of an undertaking it would be, Kear says. The site now boasts 15,000 users since launching last year.

Kear and his intern, Rosanna Harding, both think of My Wedding Workbook as the “next-generation wedding planner.” The site is easy to use and helps D.I.Y. brides stay organized — often eliminating the need for a wedding planner and saving tons of money....]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You Waiting For? So Act, Already!</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/02/11/what-are-you-waiting-for-so-act-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Stella and Greg Halpern say, “We’re on a mission to build a better world,” they have the credentials to prove it. As the founders of So Act, a new social action network that’s connecting people around the globe, the Halperns are putting their goals into action.

We wanted to know what motivated the couple to create this ambitious network. So Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with the Halperns while they were traveling in California with their daughters, three talented musicians who go by the name Truth on Earth...]]></description>
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		<title>Ecopreneurs Make High Performance, Eco-Friendly Cleaners</title>
		<link>http://www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/01/28/ecopreneurs-make-high-performance-eco-friendly-cleaners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Necessity is the mother of invention," so the saying goes. Ask Mark Cunningham about Bayes Cleaners, and you’ll find out how the need for a premium, eco-friendly cleaning product launched the company he shares with partner Matt Bays. Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) spoke with Cunningham about Bayes Cleaners after trying — and liking — several of the company’s products....

CUNNINGHAM: My partner, Matt Bays, and I were talking about how we had just both installed stainless steel kitchens, and we couldn’t find any stainless cleaners that worked. I must have tried five or six different kinds of cleaners, and he had tried some as well. We said, “Hey, if anybody ever comes out with a stainless steel cleaner that works, they’re going to make a lot of money!”

We met the next day, and decided to get serious about developing a stainless steel cleaner. We both were into recycling at the time. We both had young kids, and using nontoxic products was important to us. We said, “Let’s make sure that whatever we come out with as a stainless steel cleaner not only works better than anything on the market, but it’s safe.” ...
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		<title>Gently Used Wedding Gowns — More than a Fashion Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigette Fanning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can use eBay and Craigslist to buy anything from boats to aquariums to musical instruments. And when it comes to your wedding day, you can use them to buy your dress, centerpieces, or other décor — but huge Internet marketplaces make this task seem daunting. Some sites, like PreOwned Wedding Dresses, Recycled Bride, and Bride Share, and have narrowed the focus to make online shopping for gently used wedding items simple for brides-to-be....]]></description>
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		<title>My 5: Jody Sherman, Sprout Baby Founder and CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Wasson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Planet Green Living (BPGL) asked Sprout Baby founder and CEO, Jody Sherman, two questions we like to ask all our interviewees.


BPGL: What are the five most important things we can do to save the planet?

SHERMAN:
    * Commit to making one positive change a month that will reduce your personal impact on the environment. It takes time to get into the habit of doing something, and then it becomes second nature. I started with something simple: putting recycling bins in my house. At first, sorting trash seemed like a chore, now we don't even think about it, we just do it. Then I started picking up trash every time I went surfing. Before long, that became part of my after-surf ritual. I keep adding things monthly, and I don't find it overwhelming that way....
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