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	<title>Better Planet &#187; construction</title>
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		<title>Forbes Out-Greens Green Consumerists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Nugent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes.com has a good piece up about how not to get duped by greenwashing construction and home design brands. It describes in concise, user-friendly detail exactly why so may products that have green seals on them are harmful to the planet. This makes Forbes greener, at the moment, than a whole lot of Web and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2008/07/15/green-home-decisions-forbeslife-cx_mw_0715realestate.html" target="_blank">Forbes.com</a> has a good piece up about how not to get duped by greenwashing construction and home design brands. It describes in concise, user-friendly detail exactly why so may products that have green seals on them are harmful to the planet.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/files/2008/07/398px-forbes_building_in_nyc.jpg" title="Forbes Building"><img src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/files/2008/07/398px-forbes_building_in_nyc.jpg" alt="Forbes Building" width="277" align="left" height="411" /></a> This makes Forbes greener, at the moment, than a whole lot of Web and print publications out there that have &#8220;green&#8221; in their titles. The problem with green-oriented sites is often that the editorial impulses encouraged by the publishing business—generally there is somebody like Meryl Streep in <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em>, and that person is generally saying, &#8216;get me some big beautiful pictures of things people can buy&#8217;—are inherently pretty un-green. The idea, as Forbes points out, is to go to the salvage yard, not the boutique, and to never replace anything when you don&#8217;t have to. You shouldn&#8217;t chuck your old linoleum floor in a landfill so you can install the green-friendly floor you saw on Greenoramatopiafuntime.com.</p>
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