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SAFE SEA GREEN LIPPED MUSSEL OIL!

February 12, 2022

Fish oils are of course very helpful for skin and itch issues, as well as being very supportive to brain and eye health, and they’re good at helping to fight inflammation. We do try to stock the most sustainable brands we can find, but the truth is that removing great quantities of fish and krill from the ocean leads to declining populations of larger sea animals and whales because they’re robbed of their food source. Big fish are also easily contaminated with mercury, PCBs and dioxins. Safe-Sea’s Green Lipped Mussels from Four

Community Solar in Oregon – A win/win for customers and the planet!

May 12, 2021

GREEN TIP FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: Sign Up For Community Solar! You too can have solar power, even if you can’t afford to put panels up! Oregon has a wonderful new program that supports the development of solar energy and also saves you money on your utility bills! We know that about 75% of carbon emissions come from extracting and burning fossil fuels, and that generating clean renewable energy with solar panels is a great way to curb these heat trapping emissions, but very few of us have the money to

Belated Earth Day Post: Orca Conservation

May 11, 2021

Happy Earth Day! We had an amazing turnout for Raffle Tickets, raising $1302 for the Orca Conservancy. If you missed the raffle, we’re here to tell you that there are certainly other ways you can help! First, learn more about orcas: If you were designing a t-shirt using artwork representing iconic symbols of the Pacific NW, you might choose an evergreen tree, Mt. Hood, perhaps a beer stein, and almost certainly an orca and a salmon. All of these things (minus the beer) are in need of protection, but none

Which Covid Products Can Be Recycled?

August 21, 2020

Many of us are using more cleaning and personal protective items these days and it can be confusing which items go in the garbage and which can be recycled. Here’s a quick guide Garbage: Face masks and face shields Used facial tissues and paper towels Plastic gloves All wipes (even those labelled flushable or biodegradable) and wipe bags and boxes Empty hand sanitizer bottles smaller than 6 oz Make sure all garbage is bagged and securely tied to avoid litter to protect the safety of waste collectors and the community. Recycling: Cardboard boxes from tissues, soap

Have You Heard Of A Catio?

September 8, 2018

By Christine Mallar The Feral Cat catio tour in Portland has sold out again this year! What’s a catio? It’s an enclosed outdoor space for kitties that keeps them safe from harm’s way and protects much of the wildlife that is harmed by outdoor cats every year. Between 2-4 billion birds a and 7 -20 billion small mammals are killed by cats in the U.S. alone. The introduction of cats has caused the extinction of at least 33 endemic species on islands throughout the world. We of course adore our

Exciting Adventures Can Also Support Important Conservation Projects!

April 17, 2018

We’re coming up on Earth Day this month, and as a Green store, this day is a major holiday for us. I wanted to post something inspirational here on this blog to mark the occasion. I want this day to be a day of celebration, as well as a call for advocacy and action, but it’s hard these days to be able to create enough hope in our hearts to actually celebrate, or to act. I want to suggest something that might help to restore your ability to hope and

Great News: Some Non Curbside Plastics Can Still Be Recycled in Portland!

April 16, 2018

You might be glad to know that we’ve uncovered some drop off sites for recycling soft plastic in our area! (baggies, produce bags, bread bags, toilet paper wrap, etc). You might remember that China stopped accepting mixed plastics due to contamination issues, and just like that, our ability to recycle many kinds of plastic dried up overnight. (More about that here). We recently stumbled on a site that helps you find convenient drop-off locations for soft plastics in the area, and then did some more digging to make sure it

Holiday Recycling Tips & Why Some Items Can’t Go In Recycling:

December 8, 2017

We generate a lot of waste on Christmas morning, so here are some tips for ways to keep waste in check: Ribbons Are Not Recyclable Pro Tip: Keep a small bag of ribbons you’ve received in the place you store your wrapping paper – they can come in so handy when you need to wrap a quick present at other times of the year. If a friend is down in the dumps, cookies wrapped in foil with a reused ribbon or a Ball Jar filled with nuts with a reused

Jiminy Crickets!

November 17, 2017

As our world’s population grows, our demand for resources becomes more difficult to sustain. This especially goes for meat production, which requires significant land use, incredible amounts of water and food needed to raise the animals, creates conflict with wildlife concerns, and is responsible for so much pollution, especially surrounding large-scale Confined Animal Feeding Operations. Better known as Factory Farming, these CAFOs also force animals to live in inhumane conditions by anyone’s standards, and are also responsible for contributing to problems with antibiotic resistance for us humans.   Consider cutting

Tips For Reducing Plastic Waste

October 20, 2017

Part Three of a three-part series – Part one was an announcement about the loss of many kinds of plastic recycling, and what plastics are still able to be recycled. Part Two focuses on why China has recently stopped importing recyclable plastic, and why attempting to force recyclers to take materials we wish they would recycle actually can ruin the chances of recyclable materials getting recycled. Read part two here. We often focus on recycling as it feels like such a direct way to help curb the waste stream, yet

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