Buying Green

Recently while surfing on the internet i came across this website that gives the viewer a review on a scale of 1 to 10 how environmentally green, healthy and safe a product is, with 10 being the most environmentally healthy and 1 being the least healthy for the environment. The rating system is broken down into three different categories. The first is labeled health and gives you a rating on if the product raises health concerns. The next category is environment and this category gauges the products risk it may cause to our surroundings. The last category of society reviews how the product is made, and if it is made in a manner where there employees are valued and respected.

This website i found to be very interesting and yet raised several questions in my mind. The first being is it our civic duty to our planet and each other to properly inform ourselves on what products are healthy and which are not? The other question this website raised was should we be demanding that all products meet this review system, or is it unrealistic?