world Changing Response #5 Haley Weinger

Response #5:

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This article focuses on buying or utilizing more environmentally friendly products with which to furnish out home. While recycled furniture, woods, paint, and chairs are highlighted it is obvious that once again an extensive amount of research is required of the consumer who is desirous of making healthy, green choices. The overall message is that we must be mindful and purposeful in selecting everything inside our home; however, the resources available to help us select safe, smart, healthy products are quite limited. The consumer of such products (like the consumer of every other product), has to focus on the items being purchased, their use, necessity, and the footprint caused by the manufacture of the item. Only after the consumer does an exhaustive analysis can smart choices be made—how many people will do this? Without laws regulating the health and safety of a product people are unlikely to be willing to study every purchase or consider the consequences of the wrong purchase.