Instead of This, Try This, #22

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this and this and this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Take the "Rise Above Plastics" Pledge (Surfrider Foundation)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #21

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell Indonesia: Stop killing orangutans for palm oil (Change.org)
  
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #20

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Join the 2.3 million people around the globe who have signed the International Declaration of Animal Welfare (AnimalsMatter.org)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #19

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Ask Starbucks to sell fair trade coffee (Change.org)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #18

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Download the 2012 Sustainable Seafood Suide (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
• Ask Congress to protect the bluefin tuna (Oceana)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #17

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Say YES to accurate labeling of GMO foods (National Health Federation)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #16

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell Kmart: Don't sell rainforest destruction (Greenpeace)
  
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #15

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell Costco to see ethical gold (Change.org)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #14

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Say NO to skinning dogs alive in China (Care2)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #13

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this and this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Take the Dairy Free Diet Challenge
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #12

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this. (Though because of this, the best response is really this.)

ACTION ALERTS

• Get a vegan starter kit from Oprah
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #11

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Get a vegan starter kit from Oprah
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #10

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell the Senate the bikes have a right to the road, say no to the mandatory sidepath law (League of American Bicyclists)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #9

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Get a Vegan Starter Kit from Oprah
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #8

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Join the 2012 Canadian Seafood Boycott to Save Seals (Humane Society of the United States)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #7

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell Unilever: Replace palm oil with native fats and help stop rainforest deforestation and human rights crimes (Rettet Regenwald)
• Tell palm oil industry: Orangutans are no pests (Rettet Regenwald)
• Check out a palm oil product list
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #6

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Join the almost 2.3 million people around the world who have signed the Universal Declaration of Animal Welfare (AnimalsMatter.org)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #5

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Save a life, take the pledge to adopt your next pet (Humane Society of the United States)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #4

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this and this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Tell Hershey to go fair trade (Green America)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #3

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, try this and you'll be less a part of this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Get a Vegan Starter Kit from Oprah
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #2

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical and healthier consumer.]

Instead of this, which contains this, try this, because of this. And this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Take action to stop the spread of Triclosan (Beyond Pesticides)
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future

Instead of This, Try This, #1

[January is Replacement Month on 13.7 Billion Years. Out with the old. In with the new. Twenty-two ways to be a more ethical consumer.]

Instead of this, try this, because of this. And this. And this.

ACTION ALERTS

• Take the 21 Day Resusable Challenge
• Follow 13.7 Billion Years on Twitter

PAST SERIES

• Victory Month: Celebrating positive change through grassroots action
• Of Rice and Men: Cooking the world's most important grain for human nutrition
• 21 Days, 21 Reasons, 21 Recipes, 21 Quotes: Eating plants, loving animals
• Rich Dog, Poor Dog: Considering man's best friend
• Physicists & Priests: Looking at the relationship of science and religion
• Deep Space: Staring at the stars
  
• Gray Matters: Thinking about thinking
  
• Flower Power: Stopping to smell the angiosperms
• Animal Cruelty: Looking at the devil within
• Chemical Month: Exploring the vast laboratory of our daily lives
• Africa Month: Visiting the world's second-largest continent
• Reports from 2050: Imagining the future