Carbon Conscious Consumer Blog

Check out this brief YouTube video about the world’s largest Laundromat using solar energy to heat its water.

The Coin Laundry Association is a Carbon Conscious Consumer partner. CLA is a national association representing 35,000 self-service laundries across the United States. Earlier in the month, CLA promoted C3 posters in …

Method, the home cleaning product line of “all-natural, biodegradable, and stylish counter-top accessor[ies],”is rewarding you this holiday season for cleaning green.
Buy $20 worth of Method cleaning products, fill out this little form, and they’ll send …

Washington Post
Eviana Hartman
Sunday, November 25, 2007; N05
It’s hard to imagine life without cellphones, computers and iPods. And as technology advances, so does the rate at which we buy gadgets just to keep up. While constantly …

The following post is written by ALex Eaves of New Dream partner, STAY VOCAL.
As a Massachusetts resident, I could not have been more excited to hear this news. Wednesday, November 14 has been declared …

As people are pledging to Beat the Heat, Wash in Cold, it is fitting to address green detergents and other related issues. The “Ask Umbra” column in Grist Magazine recently addressed the question, …

A lot of you read the C3 blog reposting of the Fast Company article about bottled water that specifically targeted Fiji brand water and its particularly environmentally unsound business practices. Well, it looks as …

For those of you who haven’t shunned the television, you may have heard that NBC is going green this whole week–the motto is Green is Universal. Every show that they air throughout this …

It’s a new month, Carbon Conscious Consumers, and with it a new challenge: Beat the Heat, Wash in Cold! We here at Center for a New American Dream encourage you to wash at least …

C3 Blog reader Erin commented about a giant drinking fountain that was used in the Hartford (CT) Marathon earlier in October that saved thousands of disposable water bottles from being used. I was impressed …