those phony green products

When is green not being green any more? The simple answer is if we look at a scale. Is what I am doing helping or hurting creation? Of course life is not this simple. For example, I have to drive to get to work. There is no way around it. It is simply too far away for me to walk or bike to work. And it simply takes too long to take public transportation. If we were to give a simple solution for this, I could just quit my job and find one that is closer where I can be more green. Of course we all know it just is not that simple.

So, there is a lot of grey in being green. There is also a lot of black and white. Recycling, being more conservative with energy, is being more green. Not recycling, throwing trash to the ground is not being green. Being green can also be hard when we add as variable time and money. It is hard to walk to the grocery store and when you drive it saves forty minutes. It is hard to buy consumer products that are less harmful to the earth when they are double the cost.

And then there is Target. With it almost being Earth Day (April 22) Target came out with some “be green” products. Unfortunately, the products aren’t very green. The first is a sign from the dollar bin. It says to recycle and be green. Yet the product is neither made from recycled material nor is it made in an environmentally conscious way. Plus, it was shipped all the way from China. Second, is a note book promoting being green. Although the product had some recycle materials in it, it was still shipped all the way from China.

These products, while they may be promoting “being green” are completely hypocritical, and all for the sake of promotion. They may seem like a green product, but are most certainly not.