Think about the money you spend just to keep your car clean:

• You use gas to drive to the car wash

• You use gas to drive home from the car wash

• You pay for the car wash (on average, about $12-18 each time for a basic car wash)

...and what do you get for your hour of time and money? You and your family inhale stinky V.O.C. fumes (volatile organic compounds), the smell of industrialized chemical cleaners and cheap synthetic fragrances that pollute the air you breathe in your car and are linked to asthma, cancers, birth defects and more. And, you get a big fat bill for your effort!

Plus, you pollute the environment: traditional car washes use between 13 and 92 gallons of water.

It's on, Season 2 of Project Green Search that is. Are you the next woman of green? If it's your dream to align your professional life with your personal beliefs that happen to fully encompass advocating green living, you just might be. If championing the earth, animal wellfare, fair trade and human rights all sound like your ideal life's purpose, you may be the next "Green It Girl" that the Project Green Search is... well, searching for.

Have you been to the dry cleaner lately? If you have, chances are you've come away with your clothes in those nasty single-use plastic bags. You know the ones: 300 million pounds of them get dumped into the US landfills every year. It's no surprise that at least 15 countries around the world have either banned or taxed single-use plastic bags. And if you are living in Los Angeles, you may have heard the news today that L.A. County just passed a sweeping ban on plastic bags, covering 1,000 stores by 2012.