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Forget Borrowing a Cup of Sugar When Neighbors Are Giving Away Fruit!
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but the excess fruit from a neighbor’s yard can make your diet richer and it won’t cost a dime. Shouldn’t we share the wealth? That’s the thinking of Neighborhood Fruit, created by San Franci...
Is Single-Use Plastic on Its Way Out?
Did you know that each year Americans throw away around 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags? Less than 0.6 percent of those are recycled. And that Americans buy 28 billion disposable plastic bottles of water a year? When we’re on the go it...
Can Gambling Be Green?
55 million Americans played poker in 2005. Las Vegas’ poker industry alone accounts for billions of dollars and players fly around the world to attend high stakes championships. Casinos like the Monte Carlo can have annual energy costs upwards ...
Can a Green Nation Forsake Its Business Cards?
I see ads all the time for green business cards at sites like Green Printer. What sets them apart? Their little squares for doing business are printed on 100% recycled paper using soy and veggie zero-VOC inks with chemical-free plate processing and s...
Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts
It’s the kind of lab I wish they offered in school instead of chemistry. Meet Chroma Lab, a collaboration of two furniture doctors, Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua, who merged their fine art skills and history backgrounds to transform ̶...
Revisiting Dickens’ Scrooge: Was He Mean or Kinda Green?
Don’t be hating on Scrooge. There might have been some green blood flowing through that iniquitous heart of steel. True, Ebenezer was a clueless curmudgeon, hardened by celibacy and tortured by a dysfunctional relationship with money. An abusiv...
Cycle Style Gets in Gear: 4 Tips for Being Chic on 2 Wheels
Cycling: It’s eco-friendly and good for your heart. Even so, conventional bike fashion and gear has presented a road block from switching out four wheels for two as an alternative mode of transportation. For the stylish set, those visions of un...
Riding the Wave of a 100 Year Problem: Ocean Acidification
Tired of hearing about global warming? I don’t think you’re alone. According to a Pew survey taken this fall, fewer Americans (35%) see global warming as a very serious problem (down from 44% in April 2008). Only 57% think there is solid evidence...
EcoMeme: The New ‘Niners & Gold Rush
First Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, now gold diggers have upset environmentalists and economists. It’s been like 1849 online with blogs abuzz over gold prices, prospectors and water use in California. The precious metal is priced at a record dollar hi...
Q&A with Torch Films: Greenlighting New, Low Impact DVDs
DVDs vaulted into existence in 1997, a box office year dominated by the likes of Titanic, Good Will Hunting and L.A. Confidential. Since then, more than 10 billion of the movie discs and their bulky plastic packages have shipped to North American ret...
Cash Strapped Readers Spare a Dime for America’s Cheapest Family
It may have been published a couple of years ago, but Americans are now catching up to the message of Steve and Annette Economides and are eagerly plunking down their pennies for the hot home economics crash course. The authors of America’s Ch...
EcoMeme: Apple’s Greener Macbook, iMac – a Wash?
Is the greening of Apple skin deep, or does it run to the core? The mobile and computing device juggernaut released its fall 2009 Macbook laptop and iMac desktop computer recently, touting “environmental,” among other desirable features in each. ...
Original Green Artist Kenny Scharf – Still Basking in the Limelight
My old college bud, Kenny Scharf, is arguably the original green artist – a brilliant guy from L.A. who began his career nabbing trash from the streets of Manhattan and embellishing old appliances with his phantasmagorical, Fifties-inspired, sq...
How to Cook Fish: Seafood Watch’s New “Super Green” List with Serving Suggestions
In conjunction with a new report called State of Seafood, Monterey Bay Aquarium has issued a new “Super Green List” of seafood options that are good for both environmental and human health. The “Super Eight”, as I’m calling them, are low in...
Counting on Copenhagen? Think 350
World leaders are preparing to meet in December for the Copenhagen Climate Talks, but by all accounts it’s starting to look like whatever agreement they hammer out will be, at best, a mediocre attempt to appease their citizens, and each other, rath...
Entertaining and Environmental: 12 Free Green DIY Projects
Stuck inside on a rainy, dreary day? Have a hankering to start a new, crafty project? Using random objects and materials from around your home, these fun and eco-friendly DIY projects will cost you little to nothing. Scrap Paper Notebook You have a ...
Compulsory Road Pricing to Stop Global Warming?
It could happen. It’s already being (re)considered in the UK. In 2004, the then British Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, floated a “green tax” idea that would have motorists paying a road user tax of around 2p to £1.50 a mi...
A Primer on Current Food Safety Politics for Non Policy Geeks
On the heels of the devastating article in the New York Times about a young woman who paid dearly for the horrifying practices and lack of oversight in the meat industry, the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a list of the top 10 ris...
We Live Here.
I had so many special hideouts in nature growing up – tucked behind the boughs of Grandma’s weepy plum tree, under the cedar beside the frog pond on Huckleberry Lane, on the cool patch of grass inside the heady lilac thicket. Perhaps you ...
10 Easy, Tasty Vegetarian Meals You’ll Make Again and Again
Misconceptions about tofu, the taste of vegan anything and a serving of Quorn nuggets are just a few of the reasons a lot of people aren’t eager to go veg. I’ll admit, I had my doubts the first time a vegan friend offered me a spoonful of her tof...
So Long 4-H, Howdy FarmVille! Fastest Growing Social Game Ever Has Users Thinking Green
FarmVille is the green place to be for city folk reaping the rewards of rural relationships and cooperation through good, clean social gaming. The hugely popular farming sim has my friends and family bragging on Facebook about a season of planting ca...
Non-GMO Project Brings Transparency to Organic Foods
People buy organic foods for many reasons: their health, better taste, a desire to keep pesticides and herbicides out of our air, water and soil and a conviction that buying organic is one way to eat GMO-free. One of the big problems with GMOs is tha...
Amy Butler Bucharest Bedding Give-Away
We have long sung the praises of Midwestern textile designer, Amy Butler, who introduced an exotic, Indian-inspired organic bedding collection of five designs this year. She even rolled out rugs to match! The lovely and much needed bedding (still ca...
A Screen Inside a Magazine to Lure Readers
Read all about it! Entertainment Weekly has published the first video advert with built-in speakers to get the attention of readers conditioned to respond to screens. A report by the BBC explains the screen is built into a wafer-thin, cardboard inser...
Muichic Jewelry Giveaway
We recently discovered jewelry designer Andres Arango of muichic and loved his attention to detail. The kolas necklace is one of our favorite pieces. A sustainable statement for sure with sexy braided hemp to hang down in back, Arango creates his bol...
A Look at the Human Hands Behind Our Food
I recently had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion about farmworker justice entitled, “The Fruits of Their Labor.” We’ve read about modern slavery in the tomato fields in Immokalee, Florida. You might ask why the situation in Florida w...
Cities Promote Green Credentials in Bid to Host 2016 Olympic Games
In the not-so-distant past, cities competing to host the Olympics focused on size, infrastructure and the ability to build huge sporting arenas. Sustainability really wasn’t part of the equation. But as illustrated with the current bidding war for...
Mountains of the Moon Dress Giveaway
Mountans of the Moon Audrey Wrap Dress in Black There’s nothing better than getting a piece of beautiful clothing for free. Unfortunately, how often does that happen? When Melissa Baswell, founder and designer for the eco-clothing line Mountains of...
Back Away from the Tuna, Shrimp and Salmon: 11 Sustainable, Healthy Seafood Choices
The more I read about seafood, from overfishing to mercury contamination, the less comfortable I feel about eating it. This is sad because seafood used to be my protein of choice. Lately, I’ve been leaning toward nut butter and eggs and have made f...
Green Gourmet Cupcakes on the Rise with the Vegan Wise
If you haven’t heard, fancy-shmancy cupcakes are stealing the hearts of America as we downsize our celebrations with treats that fill us up, not out. For a growing number of sweet teeth, four bites and one candle do the trick as we replace the ...
