Good Green/Bad Green Vol. 2 No. 2
Good Green:

I've gotten a lot better about bringing reusable cloth bags to the store when grocery shopping. I even have enough now for large grocery trips, thanks to the cloth bags that Albertson's sells for 99 cents each - a bargain by reusable bag standards, and with the 5 cent bag credit for each used, you only have to use your bag 20 times to have it pay for itself. The cashiers seem to like them as well -- the flat bottom construction of the Albertson's bag makes the job much easier. You can fit about twice the amount of groceries in one of these bags vs. the plastic variety.

Bad Green:

I love the dollar store. But the dollar store has a lot of cheaply made items that use up resources, and then there's the ethical dilemma about the working standards and pay for the people that produce all that stuff. We live about 1/2 a block away from a dollar store and it is a big temptation for me (I get especially weak when I hear the siren call of the office and school supply aisle . . .)