Baking for Good
www.bakingforgood.com
Baking for Good is simply the perfect company to be featured on this Web site. Why? The business was designed and created to help support charitable causes.
Baking for Good is an online bakery with a social mission: each purchase of its delicious brownies and cookies includes a 15 percent donation to a nonprofit [...]
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Baking for Good
15-Jun-10Skip Hop
03-May-10Skip Hop
www.skiphop.com
Now that we have grandchildren, I spend a good deal of time looking at sites that sell children’s items. One newly found site is a New York City company known as Skip Hop. It is, “devoted to designing groundbreaking products for a new generation of parents.”
At Skip Hop, we truly understand today’s moms and [...]
Clear Conscience
19-Apr-10Clear Conscience
www.clearconscience.com
For decades, I have worn glasses for reading. And, as I have grown older, reading the fine print without them has become increasingly more difficult.
However, since I do not need glasses for driving, I have never worn contacts. Still, I find myself very impressed with Clear Conscience, which sells contact lens solution and contact [...]
Goodbyn
09-Dec-09Goodbyn
Goodbyn.com
Right now, we don’t have any family members in need of a lunchbox. The day care center that our grandson attends provides lunches. But, in a few years, when he is in elementary school, we will certainly want to buy him the unique Goodbyn, a lunchbox, “reinvented for kids, parents, and our planet.” These lunchboxes [...]
Mountain Avenue
02-Nov-09Mountain Avenue
www.mountainavenue.com
Like many people, my husband and I have cut back our personal spending. However, we have not stopped shopping for our little grandson, and there are often presents to buy for holidays, new babies, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and other events. Whenever possible, we want our purchases to bring happiness to the person or people [...]
Give a Green Bag
11-Oct-09Give a Green Bag
giveagreenbag.com
Since founding this website early in 2008, I have logged onto the websites of thousands of businesses. Unfortunately, very few have proven to be socially responsible.
On the other hand, Give a Green Bag, founded by Suzanne Lippe, is one of the most socially responsible businesses I have ever seen. In addition to [...]
EarthLust
12-Jun-09In my recently published book, Food and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide, there is an entire chapter devoted to bottled water. On the second page of the chapter, I include a quotation from Richard Wilk, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University. “This is an industry that takes free liquid that falls from the [...]