Do you need to stock up on everyday items for when you're in a hurry? Whether you need quick  on the go organics for work, travel, or to stock your store, here are some of the best organics for on the go.

Best Quick Organic Snacks

The best organic snacks for on the go should be lightweight and easy to eat with no preparation. Some good examples include Happy Creamies Organic Veggiefruit Snacks, Annie's Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks, Power Snacks, and Happy Munchies (for the baby in your life).

Quick-Fix Organic Beauty Products

Breath need a little refreshing? Try Organic Refresh Breath Spray. For softer lips, try Soothing Touch Lip Balm. Skin need a refresher too? Reviva Labs Skin Tonic has you covered on the go. Spray it on and carry on. Having a hard time drying that hair in time? Earth Therapeutics Quick Dry Hair Towel should help.

Other On The Go Organic Must-Haves

Greener Ways Bug Repellent Organic Spray is a must when you're out and about. Don't forget about sun protection. Goddess Garden Organic Sunscreen is your savior here. Need a quick fix skin or moisturizing refresh? Acure Organics All Better Balm will solve it all for you and your baby. Your car may also need some refreshing. For that, try Aura Cacia Aromatherapy Car Diffuser.

You may be considering buying organic food online. But you may also be unsure of how much you may gain from not just purchasing organic products from your local retailer. Here’s why you should buy organic food online.

Buy in Bulk to Save Money Later

One of the biggest benefits to buying organic food online is that you can buy in bulk. While you may pay more upfront, you save in overall price for the quantity you are buying.

Wider Selection of Products

Many people research products online before actually purchasing. At your local organic food retailer, you are limited by the products that they choose to carry. But from an online retailer, you are usually going to be offered far more options, some of which you may have never found locally.

Easy to Research

Since you’re already online, it’s easy to look up reviews of products you’re thinking of buying or simply search the site of an organic retailer. This sort of research may not be something you would go about doing while shopping in a brick-and-mortar store.

Better Coupons & Discounts

Oftentimes, when shopping brick & mortar stores, it can be more difficult to find discounts on organics. When shopping for organics online, the organic retailer itself may offer discounts and coupons.

In light of the news about GMO (genetically modified) cotton coming from Argentina, it's more important than ever that we be mindful of what we're putting against our skin. GMO Inside recently shared that almost 100 percent of the GMO cotton in tampons, gauze pads and swabs contains Glyphosate., better known as the herbicide commonly known as Roundup.. Who wants to be putting that against their skin? Fortunately, there is already movement on growing cotton organically. Non-GMO Report recently shared this news about the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative. But organic cotton products are still just entering the market.

Organic Essentials offers several organic non-GMO cotton products in cotton balls, cotton rounds, and cotton swabs. Well-known organic brand Seventh Generation offers organic tampons. They're all competitively priced and actually beat out the GMO brands in price on some occasions. Let's hope that more non-GMO organic cotton products become more widely available in the near future!

by Lyn Lomasi, Write W.A.V.E. Media Staff

How many times have you seen people throw out furniture that can still be used just because they got something new? How many times have you done it yourself? Go green and upcycle that so-called junk to prevent it from going into a landfill too soon.

Check Craigslist's free section. Among the sales and want ads, Craigslist also has a section with people offering items for free. Many times they stick the items by the dumpster and they get thrown out before anyone can make use of them. Not a great way to go green, is it? Whether you rescue one item or do it regularly, you will be helping. Rescue the items for yourself, your friends, those in need, and the Earth.

Repurpose old items. Take your own old items or those you may have found on Craigslist or elsewhere and use them for something new. For instance, if you get a new entertainment center, but your old one can still be used (even if it needs to be pieced back together), you can use it for another reason. Turn it into a decorative shelf where you can store your plants, books, and more. Refinish an old table or just drape a cloth over it and use it for decorative purposes. Saw an old table in half and add legs to each new half to create two desks. There are so many different options.

If you can't use it, be green and donate it. If you really just cannot use the item, consider donating it to the less fortunate. Think of people you know who are in need first. But if none of them can use the items, upcycle by donating to organizations. Many programs give used furniture, clothing, baby items, household items, and more to those in need. Chances are that what you may consider junk could be exactly what someone else needs but is unable to get at the moment.

If you need the extra money, garage sale it. Donating is a good deed. But if you're strapped for cash, hold a garage sale. You'll still be helping someone by offering something at a lower price than the original sticker. Why throw things away when you can fulfill a need, make some money, and prevent waste at the same time?

Don't let good things go to waste. If you're walking around the neighborhood and see perfectly good items being thrown out, rescue them. Even if you can't use the items yourself, save them from unnecessary destruction. Find someone who needs the items or sell them in a yard sale. Even post your own Craigslist ad if you can't figure out what to do with them. At least you will be biding the Earth some time and possibly helping someone in need of the item.

by Dennis Townsend, Contributing Writer

As more and more corn is being converted into fuel, we forget that corn is a food source, and the biofuel industry is taking its toll on the poor in such places as Guatemala. The increasing corn exports to the United States is hurting the local population with the increasing cost of food, mainly corn. Corn is the main ingredient in making tortillas, and where 15 cents once bought eight tortillas, now it only buys four. And eggs have tripled in price because chickens eat cornfeed and that also contributes to the vicious cycle.

In rural areas, food farmers struggle to find places to sow seeds for corn crops for human consumption because the land is at a premium in this poor country that has bowed down to the call for bio-fuels. One farmer was planting corn in the median of a narrow highway with trucks zooming by because he has to feed his family. The recent laws in the United States and Europe mandate the increasing use of biofuels in automobiles which has had far reaching effects as land once used for food for humans, has become more valuable for growing the corn needed for vehicle fuel. And not only has this become a problem in Guatemala, but the same type of situation exist in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

With its corn based diet and proximity to the U.S., Central America has long been at the mercy of the U.S.’s corn policy, since America uses 40 percent of its corn crop to make biofuels. Most of Guatemalans good land is owned by just a few families, and is used to produce the raw materials needed to make biofuels which is not only corn, but sugar cane and African palms. With less food crops being planted, and the high cost of what food there is, 50 percent of the Guatemalan children are malnourished, and according to the United Nations, that’s the fourth-highest in the world. With mandates that dictates that all fuels must contain 10 percent biofuels to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the benefactors as usual, are the large oil companies that are making money hand over fist. 

The demand for bio-fuels has some countries in that well known “catch 22”, with the sugar industry employing 60,000 workers, and the palm industry employing 17,000 and with a poor economy, jobs are a blessing.  But that's not doing a thing for those that live in the poorest part of these participating countries who need food not biofuel. Somehow we as a world will have to come up with a reasonable compromise to battle global warming,  and still let no one go hungry.
  

By Eve-Angeline Mitchell, Contributing Writer

These methods can help to reduce the waste that your kitchen produces, making your house greener, and reducing your overall carbon footprint.

Eve-Angeline Mitchell is an experienced writer and blogger, and an animal rights and welfare advocate. She has been writing about cats, from pet cats to feral cats, to the history between cats and people, and even about big cats, on Examiner.com for four years. She is also an avid do-it-yourselfer when it comes to home improvement and enjoys learning how to do new things.

By Eve-Angeline Mitchell, Contributing Writer

So you've found ants in your house, and you want to get rid of them. You've decided, however, that professional pest control, Raid, and other chemical poisons, aren't the way to go. Perhaps you're worried about making your pets or children sick, or you're worried about how these things affect the environment. So what do you do to get rid of the ants? Check out these five eco-friendly methods for making your ant problem go away.

All of these are great ways to get rid of an ant problem without having to worry about harming the environment, or your family and pets. Try using some in combination with one another to address a major ant problem. They're far better and safer than chemical pesticides.

Eve-Angeline Mitchell is an experienced writer and blogger, and an animal rights and welfare advocate. She has been writing about cats, from pet cats to feral cats, to the history between cats and people, and even about bit cats, on Examiner.com for four years. She is also an avid do-it-yourselfer when it comes to home improvement and enjoys learning how to do new things.

By Eve-Angeline Mitchell, Contributing Writer

The bottom line here, is, that even though cars themselves aren't especially "green," you can help reduce the harm they cause to the environment by using green, eco-friendly products and accessories.

Eve-Angeline Mitchell is an experienced writer and blogger, and an animal rights and welfare advocate. She has been writing about cats, from pet cats to feral cats, to the history between cats and people, and even about bit cats, on Examiner.com for four years. She is also an avid do-it-yourselfer when it comes to home improvement and enjoys learning how to do new things.

by Mike Thompson, Contributing Writer

President Obama is the first president who has made a true commitment to the environment since Jimmy Carter (and before that, the Roosevelts), but I'm afraid Obama will face the same roadblocks as Carter.

More people are "green" than when Carter was in office, but to me, the majority are not green. They still drive their gas-guzzlers all over the place, and then complain about prices at the pump. Some even laugh at greenies with the age-old trite "tree hugger" sarcasm. In my home state of Michigan, a statewide referendum for alternative energy lost in a landside because the utilities falsely told residents their rates would increase. Surveys show that a majority of Americans deny that global warming even exists.

Carter was ridiculed back in the late 1970s for urging motorists to boost their gas mileage by driving 55 mph on the highways, and for wearing a cardigan on TV and literally begging Americans to dial back their winter thermostats, but he was ahead of his time. In winning the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan cast himself as the positive and patriotic candidate as opposed to Carter, the prince of pessimism, in part because of Carter's prescient environmental concerns.

And so, Reagan gave us “Morning in America,” which to me was “Mourning in America.” Reagan showed his ignorance by, among things, cynically removing the solar panels that Carter had ordered installed at the White House. (This was a man who asserted, lest we forget, that trees actually cause pollution.) But there was an inner fight in the OPEC cartel, which pushed gas prices down into the Happy Days era for a while, and so Reagan became a sort of clueless hero.

Which brings us to Obama. While unlike Carter he may have been re-elected, he still faces dim second-term prospects on green concerns. Citizens are finally starting to wake up and to realize the threat of a budgetary fiscal cliff, but few are will acknowledge an environmental cliff. In fact, the fiscal cliff will stand in the way of addressing the environmental cliff.

My discussions with friends and associates don't get me far, but here goes: "I support the vast majority of scientists who say oil and coal cause manmade global warming. You don't. But we need not debate that. Whether of not you realize the climate is getting hotter, the main point is that we're running out of both fossil fuels, oil sooner than coal, and so regardless of whether they harm the environment, you won't be able to drive your gas-guzzler or heat your McMansion at some point in the future. Do you truly believe the supplies of oil and coal are unlimited? Be real."

Obama won narrow party-line approval in 2009 for an economic stimulus that included $90 billion for green investments. That was quite an achievement, but in today's instant gratification culture, the stimulus soon was derided. Plus, the oil and coal lobbyists fed the flames of dissatisfaction.

This is why Mitt Romney perceived an opening to score debate points when he mentioned the $90 billion and claimed that half of the investments, including the infamous Solyndra solar company, had failed in bankruptcy. Here are the facts, combined from The New York Times and from Time magazine contributor Michael Grunwald, author of the stimulus review, "The New New Deal."

* Support for green companies was $16 billion. The other $74 billion went for public projects such as high-speed rail, mass transit and energy-saving home insulation.

* Among 36 investments, 33 have been successful and three failed. That's far more than half and half.

* Yes, Solyndra failed, for various reasons beyond their control, but during the Obama administration's first term, thanks to the stimulus, renewable energy sources were doubled and energy conservation was promoted. Solyndra shows why these programs are labeled high-risk. The same is true for any technology. If no risks are taken, no discoveries are achieved. In fact, a ratio of failure actually is budgeted as a safety net. Consider that Edison nearly went bankrupt before he invented the light bulb. Consider massive experimentation and research at NASA.

In fact, considering the history of NASA, space exploration was needed, but what was the point in going to the moon? Imagine if President Kennedy instead had made alternative energy a priority. Or President Eisenhower, previous during the 1950s, instead of building the oil-draining and sprawl-inducing national highway system. Or President Johnson, instead of going to Vietnam. Or President Nixon, instead of staying there. Or Reagan or President Clinton, Instead of failing to set energy taxes at times when gas prices suddenly plummeted. Or from Reagan to President Bush II, instead of adopting huge tax cuts for the rich.

The list of failed chances to invest for the environment seems almost endless, but in an HP-rooted twist on an old axiom, we can't cry over spilt oil. We must move ahead.

To push Congress to renew the 2009 investments, Obama's only hope is to find someone -- if not himself, some other charismatic figure -- to capture the nation's inspiration in the same way that the moon mission did. That's such a tough call. Carter got nowhere with his "moral equivalent of war." So personally, I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping against hope.

SOURCES:

http://angusreid.org/views_on_global_warming_vary_in_three_countries/

http://grist.org/news/romneys-attack-on-green-investment-was-massively-massively-wrong/