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Met Home Is Where the Heart Was
Metropolitan Home is being put to bed for good. I suffered reflux trying to digest the death of Gourmet, one of four Condé Nast publications closed recently. I didn’t sample the food bible much but felt nostalgic about it as an American insti...
A Redesign to Check Out Now
Despite a general consumer slump, the eco marketplace is sizzling as stylish shoppers continue seeking earth friendly products. In fact, when it comes to green, demand is up. That’s why stylish home eco retailer, VivaTerra, has announced a fre...
When Paper and Couture Meet
When the sustainable design movement first started, rolled paper jewelry and gum wrapper bags were plentiful. You have to start somewhere, right? Turn the clock forward to this collection of paper jewelry, created as a collaboration between KEZA and...
Kaiser Permanente: Save Trees and Thrive
Kaiser Permanente is prescribing big doses of sustainability in the sixth season of its $50 million Thrive ad campaign. Two new ads – Emerald Cities and Connected – reinforce the health care provider’s commitment to the planet by d...
Sink or Whim? Either Way They Bowl Us Over
Porcelained out? Carve your niche with an alternative sink for soaking up greener materials like certified teak, bamboo, recycled metal and glass and friendly painted ceramics. You can even experiment with poured concrete with 50% recycled fly ash, ...
Getting Purelled: The New Fixation of an Ailing Nation
Getting Purelled is the growing phenomenon of sanitizing one’s germ-infested mitts with the alcohol-based, Johnson & Johnson product known as Purell. What’s in the name, William Safire students might ask? Pure, I imagine, denotes the...
Nu? Eco Ketubas, Kippots, Bagels and Wine for Repairing the World
Jewish is going greenish. It’s a phenomenon I like to call Oy-Soy, the marriage of ethical Jewish values with eco alternatives – everything from the artifacts that help color our heritage to a back-to-nature approach to living more sustai...
Smart Shopping Is Always Green
There are some of us who have cut waaaaay back, but just can’t quit cold turkey. And I don’t mean smoking, although I did quit recently. (Yay for me!) The can’t quit I’m referring to here is shopping. I can admit my faults and this is certain...
EPA Taking Heat Over Toxic Emissions from America’s Coal Plants
America runs on coal. It creates half of our electricity. And the unclean technology producing this source may be killing our children, grandchildren and the future unborn, not to mention our natural environment. Is the fed sensing the urgency to li...
Reif Sweater Giveaway
Colder days are coming. Maybe they’re already here for you. Time to think about sweaters and layering, which is exactly what the Germaine Pullover from Reif is all about. Stand alone or layered with a tight fitting long sleeve t-shirt, we’re in ...
Ag-Caustic! Battling Toxic Compost Giveaways in San Francisco
At first, it seems extremely eco-friendly, the biannual Compost Giveaway Events every fall and spring in San Francisco hosted by the city’s Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). Residents are offered free compost to produce soil for community a...
Grown Up Twin Beds for the Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em Set
In light of the recent survey finding many of us secure a better night’s sleep in separate cocoons, it might pay to return to the days of twins. You know, lie back and watch a show, roll over for fun, head home to your crib for a snooze so you ...
Scientists Baffled by High Sea Lion Death Count in a Non-El Niño Year
It’s not unusual in California to see from 1,500 to 2,000 sea lion deaths on our beaches each year. But this year is off – way off – and no one can figure out why. Starting in May and continuing through September, an unexpected onsl...
Fashion Magazines Turn the Page
For so long you’ve had your favorite fashion magazines delivered to your mailbox. Freshly sealed in their virgin plastic covering, the perfumed pages not yet opened to release their synthetic lotus blossom scent, when it occurs to you something’s...
Name That Eco Baby!
A for Apple, B is for Beluga, C is for Chullo. Parents on planet Hollywood and elsewhere are headed in that fruity, foamy and woolly direction in declaring devotion to Mama Earth via naming their young. In the roaring Nineties, when real estate and d...
Oh, the Places I Will Plunk!
Nobody does stools like VivaTerra. I didn’t even know I had a thing for stools until recently, but as I’ve learned, I do. I’m really trying to limit myself to one, but it’s hard. Just check out the selection (fortunately, all ...
Organic Veggie Plot Is the New Office Gathering Spot
As hungry workers nationwide kiss moral-boosting bonuses and office parties goodbye, at least one Minnesota employer is adding rather than subtracting a perk for his people: an organic vegetable garden for enjoying the fruits of their labor. The Dude...
Swede Things
I’m totally Swede on the Stockholm-based Jantze Brogard Asshoff studio and the thoughtful, elegant designs these craftswomen are producing for both eco function and beauty. Founders Moa Jantze, Hanna Brogård and Johanna Asshoff strive to sim...
Lodgings for the Green Fan of Hollywood Glam
A short walking distance (yes people do walk occasionally at their own peril in L.A.) from the Hollywood sign, Mann Chinese Theater and Griffith Park, the Hollywood Pensione is a green boutique lodge housed in a 1915 Craftsman dwelling. Can Hollywood...
