LUSH cosmetics is a new market line that advertises bath supplies, make-up, and soap that are made from fresh and organic fruits and vegetables. The company focuses on the idea of creation natural cosmetics that requires little to no preservatives in the product, packaging and transportation. The line also fights again animal tested products for animal rights activists. They only buy their resources from companies that have proven not to test on animals. It markets products that make the smallest impact on the environment to keep our green Earth green. The products are made with common natural vegetarian resources such as vanilla bean, rose oil, almond oil, seaweed, and even charcoal. The cosmetics are meant to make humans beautiful as well as our planet and ecosystem. The company has over 700 stores world wide and is continuing to grow and branch out not only the products, but the message of a drive toward a greener future. In Houston’s local First Colony Mall, in the Macy’s Department store, a LUSH product stand is actually inside the store. With personal experience, the workers there are incredibly friendly and even have live demonstrations of popular products such as the butterball bath bomb. The cosmetic line has hair, skin, bath, and shower products. In not only attracts a younger generation, but can appeal to an older generation that enjoys the same cosmetic products they normally enjoy with a great overall cause that helps our environment. The LUSH product line has come along way and went from Constantine and Weir, Cosmetics to Go, and finally the brand name we’ve come to know and love today.
-Nicholas Chan
When is the last time that you drank from a water bottle? When is the last time that you recycled a water bottle?
So I’ve been hearing alot of stuff about incentives and what not for being more energy effecient. I don’t like this concept honestly, well it’s not that I don’t like the concept. It’s that I really dislike the assumptions that this concept is based from. An incentive is “something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.” There are two possible assumptions that could lead to energy incentives. One, people don’t give a rat’s ass about the environment and the only way they would is if they’d be gaining some sort of “instant” gratification (When I say instant I mean instant noodle type of instant, except on a larger scale, which, I guess, makes it even less instant. But anyway) The problem I have with this assumption is that it makes people look very very selfish and to be honest, I do think we are quite selfish but that doesn’t give us a reason to exemplify it. Two, smart incentives that are carefully planned out can help not only the environment but other things. I also agree with this, incentives like the ones for homeowners can help the housing market as well as the environment, because as people begin to buy houses and make them more energy effecient they increase the value of the homes, increase the sales of energy appliance creators, which can bring more jobs to the renewable energy industry, and help economy growth all together. So go buy a house and fill it with energy effecient lightbulbs. 
The Earth, she is calling.
Okay. We all know what the big highlight of this month is, Halloween. And with ALL the Halloween madness around the corner, there are a couple of tips I would like to give you to help you save some money and at the same time to go green.
The product we want to focus on here is Preserve’s Mail-Back Pack. This is a toothbrush with a handle made out of 100% recycled yogurt cups. The item comes in a bag with a mail-back address and a pre-paid stamp printed on the back. So, essentially this process consists of buyers using a toothbrush, then mailing it back to the company to prepare it for re-usal. Unlike many environmentally-friendly items, this one is quite reasonably priced. This toothbrush comes in one of five chic colors for the gentle price of 3 dollars.
