Ever got mad about the poor customer service you received from a company you spent your hard earned dollars with? Think of all the other business practices that upset you: poor green policy implementation, discriminatory employee standards, price gouging . . . the list can unfortunately be long. Now there's something you can do without having to go cold turkey on using retail therapy: The Better World Shopping Guide. Using 75 different categories, this book rates companies on their human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice practices! And it's only $10 bucks!
So if you're committed to changing your environmental practices, make the places you endorse financially do the same. To paraphrase from the site: Money is power and corporations are not democratic--unless we use our money to vote!
