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Green Buying Binge is Doing Us In

By Andrew Cash

NOW Magazine | April 18, 2008

What started all those years ago as a valiant effort to nudge residents to get with the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) has morphed into a fervent consumer campaign that has vanquished "reduce." It's not just evidenced by my new supersized recycling bin, but also by the endless variety of ways we're encouraged to be "green" while indulging unabated our addiction to shopping.

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Tags: environment, Earth Day, consumerism, consumption, green products

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