Would you pay extra for green products?

No I would not pay extra for this bogus garbage. 80 Bucks for a tees shirt? Not happening. They can keep their green and I will just buy all the other colors

I purchase 'green' products because I feel it is my duty to be environmentally aware of how I am consuming and creating waste. I look for products that are created from the most post-consumer content I can. In our home, I try and utilize ways of conserving energy and consumable products in order to be a more 'green' citizen. By that I mean I try to use fabric napkins instead of paper, I do only full loads of laundry instead of partial and the same goes for when I use the dishwasher. Back to your questions about brands, trust, marketing, advertising, and distribution. It has become increasingly difficult to know where a product has been made, one must become a vigilant label reader and researcher to know. When I can, I try and purchase food products that are grown locally or as close to home as possible. Consuming goods in this manner promotes the local economy, I believe it also provides me and my family with high quality foods. When reading the labels of food products, one would be surprised where our food comes from, just because the label says "Michigan Brand" cottage cheese- does not mean it is produced here. The Food and Drug Administration does have some guidelines to protect the consumer and even goes so far as to require the label to list all ingredients. The actions of the FDA make us trusting, complacent consumers. We are loured into believing what the label has printed on it, even if it is a thinly veiled truth. Most people do not read or really understand the processes in which the products they buy are produced. So, do I buy green? Yes, especially when it seems to be a product that is saving energy or resources. Do I believe all products that are advertised as being 'green' are, probably not. I should do some research in this area. I look for ways to recycle and am vigilant in this area, even though the Federal Government allows Canada to dump industrial waste into the landfills in Michigan. If even half of the landfill waste is coming from Canada and other states, I have to do what I can right here at home. Just look at the landfill behind the Palace of Auburn Hills. Ten years ago it did not tower over that building, 25 years ago it was not even visible from an airplane. Today, if I could measure it, I'd bet it is taller than Pine Knob or Mount Holly. Good luck on your paper and be a thoughtful consumer. Kellie

Yes, I do mind. I don't have the money to pay extra. I try to watch my energy consumption and not to create as much waste, but that's all I can do to save the Earth right now.

Before you go getting all smug about going green, remember that those green products are produced in a factories, that in many cases are powered by coal and shipped on trains or by air. There's a large supply chain green products go through that produces a large carbon footprint. Everyone should try to do what they can, but green is only a clever marketing buzz word.

At the end of the day, I like most people are not going to sacrifice money.

No! It is certainly not a good idea to charge extra for green products; it is discouraging the buying of them and the more reasonable they are the more people will buy. As a pensioner already struggling, all those few cents here and there add up and imagine the extra for people on low wages with several children or, are we only aiming for the higher income group here? I hope not, we all want to do our bit.

Do you mind paying extra to clean up after envionmental damage?

see Stern report on the cost of climate change http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/...

Polluting unsustainable products seem cheap because they pass the extra cost onto society/future and especially the poor/less powerfull, while the global corps get richer.

So, buying green is not a question of consience but good economics and enlightened self-interest.

http://www.greatturningtimes.org/

I would definitely pay extra for 100& organic cotton, or 100% hemp clothing. Sadly there is no-where to buy the stuff near where I live, and buying clothing on the internet is a crap-shoot.

I buy (sometimes) local fruit & veggies, & local free-range chicken & steak, & even turkey on Thanksgiving & I do pay extra.

These things I'm doing are not so much "going green" as they are self preservation. You may be unaware of the benifits of wearing un-blended clothing, but I don't want to get into that. I know how meat is prepared before it gets to my grocery store. I am aware of how chicken are raised before they get to my grocer. Buying from small mom & pop farms; & butcher shops, & a Menonnite dairy, not only help protect me from disease, but it also keeps jobs and money in the hands of people, not corporations...

To prevent another situation like just before the great depression, where few had lots, & lots had little, it is imperative that we strengthen each other instead of giving our money to giant corporations, even if it does mean spending a nickel more for each steak. It is money well spent when you consider the benefit or having a small butcher-shop prepare your hamburger vs. having a meat processing plant prepare hamburger from diseased cows that eat, among other things, ground up poop, other dead cows, grain, hormones.

no, green products is very small to make easier to help the planet. you should not have to buy if you can not pay more than normally produced product. if you buy than it's effect on earth environment little.

but you want really help the planet, when you have to stop loss of energy.

I don't mind paying more for my green products. Your right that it helps our planet, but they are also better for you. I go to shaklee.net/try_green_life were I even get a discount.

I would pay extra for non green products.

I wouldn't mind paying extra. After all that would be helping the world, right?