Companies That Get It

Last year at this time, I wrote about Mary’s Turkeys. So, this year, I’m doing it again. Mary’s Turkeys, particularly their Heritage turkeys, are amazing. Here’s what Mary’s has to say about these birds:
[T]heir superior taste is a result of being raised with plenty of open space in a healthy and caring environment and fed [...]

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Yesterday one of the blogs I read daily pointed me to this UPI article that relates the story of two Girl Scouts from Ann Arbor, Michigan. The two girls decided to stop selling Girl Scout cookies when they learned that the cookies contain palm oil, notorious for being harvested on large plantations that cause harm [...]

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I suppose I should have written about this earlier, but if you’re like me, you are a serial procrastinator. That said, you’re probably looking for a good solution to your last-minute Valentine’s Day gift search. Sure, drugstores across the nation are promoting their endless aisles of sub-par chocolates and knick-knacks wrapped in varying shades of [...]

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Over the weekend, I took a big step in my life: I purchased a new computer.

Not just any computer, mind you, but a 17-inch high-resolution Apple MacBook Pro, with 2 gigs of RAM, a 7200 RPM 160 gig hard drive, and dual Intel 2.4 gigahertz processors. Ted keeps going on about [...]

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Last week, I introduced you to The 963 Coffee Project, where you can get involved in helping release coffee farmers in developing nations from poverty by purchasing fair wage coffee beans. This week, I’d like to introduce you to the idea of giving up coffee…mochas, to be exact!
While my husband, Steven, runs 963 Missions, my [...]

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My husband, Steven, and I…we’re coffee people. Every morning, we carefully weigh the beans on a scale, grind them fresh in a burr grinder, and then create the perfect brew in our Bodum Santos Coffee Maker that resembles a contraption from Mr. Wizard’s World. A little snobbish? Perhaps. But when you [...]

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Today a new Guest Blogger will post to The Sustainable Scoop. Her name is Christine Bailey, and you can check out her own blog over here. I’ve asked her to post today about a company called 963 Coffee that sells coffee beans that have really, truly been fairly traded. The company offers four coffees and [...]

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Juniper Ridge is a company that I’ve taken quite a liking to, if by “liking” you mean “total obsession.” The company was founded by Hall Newbegin, who desired products that smelled like the Western regions he loved. I know these scents well; when I drive to the coast, I can clearly smell the bay laurels [...]

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Jenni is taking the week off, so to keep you entertained for the day, here’s a video from Plenty Magazine about Terracycle, the company that makes liquid fertilizer from worm poop. Try to ignore the miserable shot angles, leaving CEO Tom Szaky’s face in profile for most of the interview, and focus instead on the [...]

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My brother and I are very close, but we’ve always had a running joke; a healthy competition of who is the better sibling.  Currently, I believe he’s winning because he will graduate from college this Fall whereas I merely have a plan in my back pocket for when (or if) I return to school.  But [...]

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I love soap. I love lots of things, like paper goods, and caffeine, and rescuing shelter animals. But mostly, I love soap.
At last year’s ExpoWest, I met a man named Hugo Saavedra, whose soap company is called Hugo Naturals. He was walking around the show carrying bags and bags of his soaps, and they smelled [...]

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