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By: Gaiam Yoga For Weight Loss Kit | Real Weight Loss Reports

Gaiam Yoga For Weight Loss Kit | Real Weight Loss Reports — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:57:50 +0000

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(Green)Grounded » Blog Archive » That Receipt Will Kill You! — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:04:44 +0000

[...] mentioned last week that “no one gives” a hoot “about going green”, which I meant (in earnest) as a jab at deceitful companies such as SIGG and [...]

By: Ashley Sue

Ashley Sue — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:45:08 +0000

But for real, Micah, both website of yours are REALLY good. Solid content, great pics… as soon as Marc and I get a home (2010!), we have a TON to learn from your sites.

By: Ashley Sue

Ashley Sue — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:40 +0000

Hey Micah,

Thanks for the kind words.

Your blogs are great, btw. I do have to say, I’m not really down with self-promotion disguised as comments, and you’re bordering on that. If that comment was under a post related to food, gardening, composting, etc. it wouldn’t look so obvious. You know. I usually just block comments like this, but your sincerity seemed to outshine what I’m calling you out on.

Just thought I’d lay that out there.

Thanks again.

By: Micah

Micah — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:53:34 +0000

This is a great post.. Very informative... I can see that you put a lot of hard work on your every post that's why I think I'd come here more often. Keep it up! By the way, you can also drop by my blogs. They're about Vegetable Gardening and Composting. I'm sure you'd find my blogs helpful too.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Whoops. OK, commented on your SIGG post before reading this.

Lotuspad makes really, really nice TPE yoga mats. They used to make a kids’ size too, but unfortunately discontinued that. But the quality is superb.

It’s sad to read your observation that issues like this might actually damage eco-friendlier movements on the part of the general population. But BPA in water bottles is a great example of how it can damage the way “greens” perceive their options. Many now seem to think that stainless steel is the only safe choice, and steel is so much more resource intensive than aluminum. Ultimately I have to wonder how many of those who buy stainless steel water bottles really end up using them for the 20 years they’ll last. And what then? How many of them really get recycled, and how much energy is then required to do so? Aluminum bottles tread much more lightly and, of course, we all have access to the means to recycle them.

By: Ashley Sue

Ashley Sue — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:08:14 +0000

Amen, John. I bought a Gaiam yoga mat a couple years ago, before I was thinking about PVC, phthalates, hormone-inhibitors through my health products stuff. Sure enough, it’s plastic. And they are the world leader in yoga-inspired products. It is sad when the products designed with health in mind knowingly cheap out and use unethical standards of materials or human labor to produce their goods.

Thanks for pointing that out. Good addition to the convo.

By: John Muir

John Muir — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:53:52 +0000

Gaiam the world’s leading supplier of yoga inspired products, continues to manufacture PVC yoga mats representing millions of PVC mat sales over the last decade including PVC yoga mats to kids…… Fashionably green? No, much worse……. ethically compromised and corrupt. Boycott, Gaiam!