Is my greenness fading ?

I'm trying to be green.. I really am. But buying products needs to be easy.. and for some reason our local supermarket appears to be cutting back on Seventh Generation products. We had changed to 'green' toilet paper and dishwashing liquid... these actually happened to be two of the green products I was really, really liking.. and suddenly, poof, gone from the shelves.. so what's a girl to do.. revert back to cottonelle and dawn?.. there were no other attractive alternatives, so for this week, yes... we are living a little less green !
So far our life on the light-green side includes:

• CFL lightbulbs (with one already replaced... didn't they say they were supposed to last for a really long time?)
• groceries (usually) carried in reusable bags
• natural body lotions (sorry Juice Beauty but after about 4 weeks my face broke out, and wouldn't clear-up.. so I'm back to Bliss)
• the 7th Generation cleaning products that are still available locally
• tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from our garden
• increased amount of recycling
• a lot less plastic water bottles

I guess we are greener than when we started out.. maybe another read through one of my green books will enthuse me again - and help brighten up our green!

A smelly green experience..

Dave got the plates out for dinner tonight, and immediately screwed his nose up.. whoof he said.. what is that smell ? Fortunately for me, I have a cold and can't smell a thing ! But he tried to describe a pungent earth wormy type of smell.. at first we thought something may have died in one of our kitchen cabinets.. but on further 'smelling' Dave narrowed the culprits down to the plates, mugs and glasses that we use everyday and wash regularly in the dishwasher.. hmmm.. with our new green dishwashing powder ! Could it be ?.. surely not..
My green self didn't want to jump to conclusions - afterall it could just be the dishwasher - so I bought a different eco-friendly dishwasher liquid - rewashed all the smelly dishes in the dishwasher.. and all came out as good as new... smell gone. Hmmm.. I guess just as in everything else, there are products that agree with you and others that don't.. we love the rest of the Seventh Generation products we use.. but our dishwasher powder, has now been replaced with Palmolive eco+ gel.
Tonight was the only time this weekend I was thankful to have a cold !