How have green-groups been affected by the economic downturn?

I’m not sure I’d bring a date

(ARA) — The days of frivolous spending habits have passed. We’ve managed to admit we’re in a recession, but how exactly do we shop — both for pleasure and for necessities — during these hard economic times?
The ways to save money these days are countless and living on a tight budget is not as difficult [...]

It’s been creeping behind Americans for many months, like a slow moving hurricane blowing winds of bankruptcy and foreclosure. On a day when the Dow Jones lost almost eight per cent, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially announced that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, according to the New York Times.