Recent Posts Tagged With 'recycle'

• The Unlist: 9 Holiday Gifts Not to Buy

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 10:00 in china, cell phones, gifts, fashion, Chocolate, coffee, saving, sustainable, gourmet, holiday, decor, gift baskets

  I’m  so over the annual mandatory retail blitz which prompts us to purchase scads of presents no one needs (and few can afford). Enough is enough. Necessity is one thing; waste is another. Be an angel and give material items only to the needy...

• Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 09:00 in repair, business, design, furniture, eco, green, decor, paint, lamps, small businesses, recycle, modern art

  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 ̶...

• Bubble Trouble: Recycled Flutes Paired with Tasty Bruts

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 12:00 in holidays, sustainability, eco, green, decor, celebration, entertaining, recycle, glass, champagne, sparkling wine, festive

  Be the host with the most eco savoir faire. Follow our lead and pair organic bubbly with born-again vessels for celebrating the spirit of reusing and recycling. Your green guests will drink to that! Of course, mine will drink to anything. Cheers to...

• Styling on a Yulestring? 10 Frugal and Festive Fall and Winter Displays

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 09:00 in home, photos, house, flowers, cards, decorating, winter, Candles, green, vintage, organic, fabric

  Sure, you’re forced to take down the ghosts and fuzzy spiders (news flash: your neighbors are pissed if you haven’t done so), but some of the seasonal elements we put up to get in the mood  should endure until the end of the year, if no...

• Original Green Artist Kenny Scharf – Still Basking in the Limelight

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 09:00 in art, sculpture, brooklyn, Brazil, New York City, graffiti, los angeles, aids, pop art, recycle, carbon footprint, featured

  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...

• Before Chanel, Coco Was Eco

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 11:00 in fashion, paris, france, Handbags, couture, chanel, recycle, project runway, coco, reduce, audrey tautou, reuse

  Not since Scarlett O’Hara upcycled those curtains to make a crazy green velveteen dress have we seen such industrious textile make-overs on the screen. Yes, Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel is the quintessential tweed rags-to-riches sag...

• 5 Natural Ways to Fight the Flu

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 15:00 in health, Natural, recovery, tea, flu, home remedies, wellness, organic, sleep, stress, colds, garlic

  The flu is already spreading like a Malibu wildfire in my Bay Area community with dozens of kids out the first few weeks of school and contaminated parents unable to play nurse. It’s going to happen, no way of avoiding it all together, but the...

• A Bento a Day

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 14:00 in weight loss, japanese, asian, wellness, dieting, organic, snacks, recycle, fruits, lunch boxes, veggies, bento

  Besides being impossibly adorable, this painted enamel adaptation of the Asian field worker’s tacked lunch box is the ideal container for a dieter on the go. I received one as a gift from my boss over a cup of Joe and a lesson on social network...

• Green Gourmet Cupcakes on the Rise with the Vegan Wise

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 10:00 in baby, design, weddings, green, parties, vegan, decor, compost, birthdays, recycle, featured, showers

  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 ...

• 15 Every Day Items You Can Recycle for Cash

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 11:00 in money, recycle, glass, featured, plastic, aluminum

  Your principal incentive to recycle? That one’s a no-brainer: the environment, of course. But, it doesn’t just have to be a green act of good will; it can add a little extra cash to your wallet as well. Recycling for money sure won’...