There are so many ways to find out about new environmentally-friendly products. Magazines are chock-full of new ideas to be more eco-friendly, and it seems every time you go shopping there are new green products are on the shelves. Our kids are taught so much about the environment in schools these days, they often come home with new ideas and products to help us reduce our carbon footprints.
Of all the ways we learn about new environmental products these days, what is your top source of information?
My kids (3.3%)
Friends/co-workers (9.5%)
Media (TV news/magazine articles) (37.5%)
Seeing new environmentally-friendly products while shopping (26.5%)
Advertisements (on TV or in magazines) (23.3%)
I don't watch TV, but I read most about new environmentally friendly products online - either news articles, reviews or blogs, mostly. I'd say the second place I see new EF products would be in magazines - I subscribe to GOOD, Washingtonian and Traditional Home.
TV is typically the main way that I find out about new "green" products. But it makes me wonder how really "green" they are and how much is just hype to join the "green" bandwagon. Call me skeptical but it wouldn't be the first time a company was somewhat deceiving in advertising.
Most of the new environmentally friendly product i see are online, TV or magazines but occasionly i will see an item in a store first.
Most enviromentally products I use is when I go to my dry cleaning I like to know that there are no chemicals in my clothes when I put them on so I look for only organic dry cleaners only but i have to do most of the work my self to find out those places.
I get a-lot of information from the heallth food stores.
When I read about a new green product in the paper or online, I still check out additional sources to make sure that the manufacturer is fully environmentally friendly without their just using the one product advertised as a gimmick or to pay lip service to a "green trend."
I don't watch commercials on tv. I either change the channel or get up and toss in a load of laundry, or look for a snack. I do pay attention to the new products I see while shopping.
I find the most useful information in magazines to find new products that others have tried and like. Magazines also offer coupons to try new products.
I have been a lot more environmentally conscious this year. My parents never recycled, since moving out and having a child of my own, I have found it really important to recycle and bring my son up thinkin the same thing. This is our home and we have to keep it beautiful and safe! I compare this thought to when I was in the Smokey Mountains last year and people would carve their names into wood at the taverns or at the look offs in the mountains, that is natures beauty and people just destroy it, I HATE THAT! You should do your part too!
I usally hear about environmentally friendly products on the TV and also my daughter brings me alot of info from school, she is 14 and is really into green.