Hippie Products, Food Frauds, 'Alternative' Currency

Friday, April 20, 2012 Your 'Natural' Products Aren't As Green As You Think If you've recently traded in your Colgate toothpaste for a tube of Tom's of Maine in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, your money is still going to the same company. Tom's of Maine, a popular line of natural toiletries, is owned by Colgate-Palmolive -- a Fortune 500 company with $15 billion in revenues last year. Tom's of Maine is not the only earthy beauty company backed by a major American corporation. Rather, it's a common trend in the world of personal care products. What You Don't Know About Doctor Referrals Food Fraud: 8 Hoaxes To Look Out For At The Grocery Store Water Bills To Rise As Supply Shrinks Have Fair Credit And Looking For A Credit Card? Good Luck. Utah Encourages 'Alternative' Currency BLOG POSTS LearnVest: How Going Greener Saved One Woman $21,950 a Year The No Impact Project certainly was a challenge, but I never doubted the worth of the experiment. Deep inside of me I knew it was the right way to live. Larry Magid: What's Wrong With Banks and Why They Need a 'Wall Street Steve Jobs' In Bankrupt: Why Banking Is Broken and How It Can Be Transformed, Carol Realini paints a picture of a banking industry that is out of touch with its customers. Gino Vicci: Deal With It: A Veteran Trader's Take on High-Frequency Trading The high-speed trades driven by computers are in the cross-hairs of regulators in Washington. In spite of the controversy, some in the industry say high-frequency trading should be allowed to run its course. Martin Bourqui: How Harvard Is Ignoring the Failures of Our System -- and Why We Can't Any Longer I refuse to see one more hardworking student let down by the arrogance of an administrator metaphorically patting them on the head, saying, "This is none of your business." Confronting power in higher education and not taking no for an answer remains, by far, the most successful strategy. Women & Co: Should I Go Back to Grad School? When it comes down to it, the decision to pursue further education lends itself quite nicely to the same thing we rely on to help us make other expensive decisions: simple math.

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