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By Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Editor-in-Chief

Buying toilet paper isn’t anyone’s favorite task…there’s something slightly embarrassing about leaving the grocery store with all those rolls under your arm. But picking the right toilet paper is important—and if you’d rather avoid clogging up the toilet paper aisle while you check labels for recycled content and bleaching information, Greenpeace has an application for you.… Continue

By Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Editor-in-Chief

At Natural Home, we saw this one coming.

Americans want smaller, more affordable homes, according to a 2008 survey by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). In fact, 60 percent of American said they prefer smaller houses with more amenities to houses with more square footage.

Since the 1950s, housing in America has reflected the idea that bigger is better. The average home has grown from 1,600 square feet in the 1970s to more than 2,500 squ… Continue

By Susan Melgren

Meat doesn’t rate high on my list of favorite foods, but I make an exception for barbecue. There’s something pleasant and a little nostalgic about gathering together good friends on a humid summer evening and lighting up the grill. Barbecuing is a staple of summer, but like many of our favorite activities, it could stand to be greened.

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by Samantha Schwartz

College has consumed my brain this past week as my family and I drove up and down the East Coast in search of my dream liberal arts school. Our last stop was Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. On the tour, an outspoken girl grilled our tour guide about how the college is going green.

Our guide told us the college is getting greener. Though average Wesleyan students enter with 4.0s on their report cards, Wesleyan’s green report card sports a B+ average. Wesleya… Continue

By Kim Wallace, Assistant Editor

Yes To Tomatoes Tempting Tomato Volumizing Shampoo has a big challenge with my medium-length, baby fine, oily hair. Shampoos (natural shampoo and conventional shampoo) loaded with heavy conditioning oils and thick proteins weigh my hair down, but without some kind of moisture, my hair gets unruly.

Yes To Tomatoes Tempting Tomato Volumizing Shampoo strikes the perfect balance. Laced with ginkgo biloba for light moisture and Dead Sea mud and mineral natural clean… Continue