Your Questions About Green Living

The Expert answers:

I’m so not impressed with 7th generation. Mainly because their products are high in price, and they don’t sell concentrate…meaning more plastic bottle waste in our environment. I shop only from Melaleuca. Best health and wellness company out there. Their products beat the pants off of the name brands, and they are cheaper because they are so concentrated. They also sell products that are to be used in conjunction with reusable spray bottle. Saving our earth! Love them!!!

The Expert answers:

Of course. There are all sorts of pollution controls in place to regulate corporations.

The Expert answers:

Start a blog, like on blogspot.com or livejournal.com and get people to follow you. Post about your shop and offer exclusive promotions.

Get a twitter, facebook, myspace and invest time into it.

Make some business cards and coupons and pass it out to all your friends. Tell your friends to pass it out to their friends.

Go to local boutiques and ask them if they would like to sell your items. If not, ask them if you can leave some of your business cards there.

If you or someone you know goes to school, post a flyer/postcard around the school.

Buy some adspace on facebook, google adwords, or project wonderful.

Get creative. There are lots of things you can do to promote your shop. Not everything works for everyone. You got to invest into as much time marketing as you are making your items when you first start out.

The Expert answers:

Well, there are some things that we ARE reinventing.

Computers already use MUCH MUCH less power than they did 15 or 20 years ago, and you get much more bang for the buck.

You will see products like the I-Pod Nano and shuffle become more popular than other items, wearable technology. Eventually this technology will power off of our movement and our own electrical output (humans create a small electrical charge ourselves), machines could be made to run on that.

Before that however you will see clothing with integrated solar fibers or some such, where your coat generates 2 or 3 volts when there is light out.

Most products will become MUCH less bulky in packaging and start using simple wax-paper or something similar, both sustainable AND lower energy (but not necessarily cheaper – at least initially), since boxes, plastics and other things might not be involved.

Cars – the biggest thing in cars is likely to be increasingly efficient BATTERIES, 150 year old technology – to the rescue.

After the calamity of Detriot is finished you will see either old companies adapt or new companies rise up and start making good cars again, Eventually we will have hyper-efficient cars, something like the Prius that can run on a battery for a 40 or 50 mile range and then use either solar/or some such to recharge.

But OIL and gasoline are going to be in increasingly short supply, and we need – as a nation, to deal effectively with that challenge.

The Expert answers:

Several great companies out there – Monave, Rejuva, Maia’s Mineral Galaxy, and Just Pure Minerals. The last company doesn’t make them in pencils, you’ll have to buy it in powder form and use a wet eyeliner brush to apply it as an eyeliner. The first three companies make them pencil forms. All of these companies are great, I’ve been using products from them for a while. I have sensitive skin and eyes – their products never irritate my skin or eyes. I have used eye shadows from all of them – never bothered my eyes. I have used an eyeliner from Maia’s Minerals and it didn’t irritate my eyes. I have used Just Pure Minerals’ eye shadows as eyeliners, also no issues. I haven’t used Monave’s and Rejuva’s eyeliners, but should be great – judging from their other products.

All of these companies specialize in producing non-toxic and safe makeup, so you shouldn’t have any trouble with any products from them.

You can find reviews of products from these companies here:

kajalreviews.com

Hope I helped.