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Eco Friendly Gift Ideas
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! If you could take 6 1/2 minutes to watch this video of me showcasing some of my favorite eco friendly gift selections from EcoPlum – I would greatly appreciate it! The self produced...
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Top Five Reasons 2012 Made Us Pay Attention to Climate Change
It’s that time of year when we look back and reflect on the past year and make silly lists. Well this list is far from silly – it is quite sobering news for many of us to accept. In 2012, climate...
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Gia’s Tips on Safe Cosmetics
I like this vlogging thing. It’s much easier than writing. I’ll continue to use the excuse that I have a broken finger as long as I can to make these videos instead of writing a post. This month I...
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Gift Giving Returns with the Spring – Make it Eco Friendly!
Just when you think you are out of the woods with gift giving, the spring season returns with all kinds of consumer driven holidays: Easter, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Graduations, and all those spring...
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EcoPlum Salutes Green Moms
It’s almost Mother’s Day! Yay! One of my favorite days of the year! I recently attended an event about food waste, moderated by Ron Gonen, the Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of...
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A Trip to the Farmer’s Market with Smelly Scraps in Tow
Three years ago (oh my how time flies!!) as I approached my 46th birthday I wrote all about how I was going to get a composter and start composting at home. Well as it turned out, I never got that...
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Fast Fashion has to Slow Down
A few years ago, those checking labels for chemical ingredients in their food, buying organic produce, or looking at the sustainability ratings of seafood were in the vast minority. Organic and natural...
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Being a Conscious Consumer Need Not Consume You
By now you probably know that I was not always a conscious consumer. To be precise, in the days Before EcoPlum (B.E.), I was quite an unconscious consumer. I used to shop for anything, anytime, with...
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An Inconvenient Truth about our Shopping Habits
If you have ever watched Seinfeld or any other comedy based on Jewish humor, you know that we Jews are not generally the most optimistic people. Remember the Nanny’s mother and her constant criticism...
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Using Technology to Empower the Consumer in Beauty and Fashion Purchases
I was so excited to see that the Environmental Working Group has come out with an iPhone (and Android) app for its Skin Deep database. For those of you who may not be familiar with Skin Deep, it is an...
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Mindycara: An EcoFashionista’s Dream
When my high schooler was a tiny two-year-old tot, he went wandering over to the next table at Starbucks to play with the cute girl sipping warm milk with her mom. As I ran over to get him, I started...
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WHO SAYS BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP?
When I was a little girl, my mom used to tell me not to write on my skin. “The ink is like poison,” she would say, “and it goes directly into your blood stream.” While I’m sure that my mother caused...
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Fifty is the New Thirty: Finding my True Calling
As I approach my 50th birthday, I’ve been doing quite a bit of self-reflection. In my personal life, I couldn’t be more satisfied: my husband and I will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in...
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Beautiful Jewelry from… Trash?
You may have seen our article series here at EcoPlum called The Stories Behind our Products. Well reading about our creative and talented artisans is certainly interesting, but how about a close up...
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Being a Part of Something Big
I was born in the 60s and often think about how crazy that decade was. President Kennedy was killed when my mom was pregnant with me, our good family friend Andrew Goodman was killed in Mississippi...
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Welcome!
My hope, in writing this blog, is that I will be able to reach all the MIGGs out there. What is a MIGG? It’s me, 5 years ago, it’s most of my friends, it’s a lot of the parents in my kids’ schools,...
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It’s Not Always Easy Being Green
What? Blasphemy! How can you say that, Gia? Isn’t the whole point of EcoPlum to make it easy and convenient for people to go green? Yes, it is. As a matter of fact, when we were starting EcoPlum in...
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Top 10 Frustrating (and Funny) Experiences with Going Green
Thanks for all your input on experiences with going green. I selected the following Top 10 from your submissions: #10 Rob Dorfman of San Francisco: Trying to take the bus to the airport only to find...
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Vacation Week & Link for Amex
Taking a week off from blogging to hang with the family in Cape Cod. Be back in September! Also, if you got to this page from my Twitter campaign about the Amex program, here is the correct link:...
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Are my actions a drop in the bucket?
In my first post, “Welcome,” I introduced the MIGG. This is a person who doesn’t make the environment a top priority because: M – My actions are just a drop in the bucket! I – I’ve got bigger issues to...
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