Today's one of the biggest shopping days of the year, but are you thinking about how the world we live in is affected by how you spend that hard-earned dollar? Big Green Purse is a great blog about how to spend wisely while helping the planet. This great green blog by Diane MacEachern goes hand in hand with her book: Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World. The extensive research she's done for the book helps her create informed, interesting posts, and to use the blog to illustrate the best ways real people have met the challenge to go green, such as the story (and balance sheet!) of how a mom shifted spending to earth friendly products.
There's some great reviews of products that are not just green, but are helping others, (like one of our favorite programs, One Laptop Per Child!)
I asked Diane how her book and her blog have been a successful combination, and she wrote:
"..the book really helped me clarify the role I see consumers playing in accelerating the transition to a cleaner, greener environment. The blog helps me keep the content up to date and responsive to current events, an achievement that is impossible to attain through a book but tailor-made for a blog. One big benefit of having both: I have the opportunity to interact with thousands of people - those who read my book and send e-mail, and those who read my blog and send comments. The audiences can be quite diverse, so I feel quite lucky to have the opportunity to engage with them both."
Visit Big Green Purse.
