Growing+Up+Green



The average consumer uses between fifteen and twenty-five personal care and cosmetic products everyday. Those products may contain more than two hundred synthetic chemical compounds, which may cause harm with repeated exposure.Our fossil fuels are being depleted and our pollution rates have never been higher. Going "Green" is the latest trend, and one that has impacted an entire generation. How will you step up and "Go Green"?

Making the Environment Trendy: I am not a Plastic Bag!
We're all for everyone using reusable bags, but why spend hundreds of dollars on this particular one? That's the going rate on eBay, where we're sure some New Yorkers will be making their rent money later (the retail price is $15). When the bags hit LA last month, LAist and TMZ reported from the front lines. Bags sold out there by 2pm, however here in New York at the Columbus Circle location (with 3,000 bags in stock) they were sold out in 29 minutes. [|more on this story]

Over 380 billion plastic bags are consumed in the U.S. each year, they take about 500 years to degrade and less than 1% reuse them.

Do you think making the environment "trendy" will work when it comes to environmental consciousness and "Going Green"?
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Millennials say environmental cleanup is left to them
Most "Millennials" -- defined here as those born between 1980 and 1991 -- feel "previous generations did great harm to the environment" and 87% agree (41% strongly) that their generation will have to clean it up.

What do you think? Whether you are a "Millennial" or not, who is responsible for cleaning up the environment?
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Your request is being processed...Gulf Oil Spill: Crews Prepare To Start Plugging Well For Good
The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held on but was never meant to be permanent.

What do you think about the Gulf Oil Spill, how it was handled, and what long term effects it will have on not only the countries waterways, but on those of us living around it?
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The Government and the Environment
Cap -and -trade is officially dead. The Senate Democrats, in a caucus meeting, decided not to pursue legislation that would seek to cap carbon and other green house gases by pricing them, a market-friendly scheme known as cap-and-trade. This is a clear setback for clean-tech and renewable energy companies. A comprehensive climate change and energy law would have provided both the long-term certainty and funding they currently lack, and decrease green house gas emissions. more on this story

What steps do you think the government should take when it comes to the environment?
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