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More Great Links

• The Daily Green: The Halo Effect: Your Hybrid Alone Won't Save the Planet -- Oct. 5, 2007
• Lazy Environmentalist: Green Consumerism: Problem, Panacea or Just One of Many Good Ideas? -- March 7, 2008
• The New York Times: Buying Into the Green Movement -- July 1, 2007

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• Alter, Lloyd. "Stop the Presses: Green Consumerism Exposed." TreeHugger. March 6, 2008.
  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/washington-post-on-green-consumerism.php
• Green Consumerism: Problem, Panacea or Just One of Many Good Ideas? Lazy Environmentalist. March 7, 2008.
  http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/pages/2008/03/green_consumeri.php
• Green May Be Ho-Hum for the Holidays, But It's Here to Stay. Marketing Green. Dec. 12, 2007.
  http://marketinggreen.wordpress.com/category/green-consumerism/
• Motavalli, Jim. "The Halo Effect: Your Hybrid Alone Won't Save the Planet." The Daily Green. Oct. 5, 2007.
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• Williams, Alex. "Buying Into the Green Movement." The New York Times. July 1, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/fashion/01green.html?ex=1340942400&en=0b82e98583080d3d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=
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