Mike Albo Goes Shopping: Washing Away Green Guilt Edition

In today's Critical Shopper column, MIke Albo crystallizes the challenge of maintaining environmental responsibility in the modern age:

When I do my whites at the laundromat, I mix my expensive Seventh Generation detergent with toxic but affordable Clorox bleach. I may as well just slap a puppy. I try so hard to be a good citizen of the planet, but I am a murderer of the earth in so many casual ways.

Have we not all been there?
We will even admit to occasionally being just too darn lazy to unfold the re-usable shopping bag stowed in our messenger bag at the grocery counter. And, let's face it, the barrage of green and environmentally conscious products thrown at us can sometimes make us wonder of it all isn't just a ply to get us to pay a few dollars more for toilet paper or hand soap —a few dollars most of us don't have to spare these days.
To that end, Mike has visited Green Depot's newest location on the Bowery for the Thursday Styles. We will admit to not having visited this place yet, mostly because the idea still makes us think of grungy 1970's era health food stores. We know we are wrong, but we can't help it. The Shophound is a fancypants. Duh.
Now, thanks to Mike's investigation, it is at the top of out "To visit" list, because we really do care, and we have found that the environmentally conscious products we do use are just as effective, if not more so than conventional ones (hello, Method dish soap). What we don't like is actual cleaning, but that's a different story. We have not yet been sold on the idea of countertop composting. There will be no $89.95 3-Tray Worm Factories for us, at least not yet. Perhaps this is because our available countertop space is roughly the size of our laptop screen, but, hey, baby steps.
Critical Shopper | Green Depot: An Environmental Cleanup in Every Aisle By Mike Albo (NYTimes)
Green Depot Live 222 Bowery between Prince & Spring Streets, Lower East Side