March 17, 2010 at 9:41 am by
Vanessa Barrington
Cities across the nation suffer from some of the same ills regarding poor quality food and inequitable distribution of healthy, fresh produce and other unprocessed foods. But New York City has a bold plan that could very well serve as a model for the rest of us.
Communities in every urban area include pockets or neighborhoods that have higher rates of diet related diseases than neighboring communities, little or no physical access to healthy, fresh foods, or lack of money to buy the fresh food that is available. Our broken food system contributes to our national health problems, but it’s also …
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March 17, 2010 at 12:33 pm by
Patrick Sauer
“If you want to drink excellent beer, we have it. If you want compromise your standards and drink yellow nonsense, then you’re probably not our customer anyway, so what do we care?”- Greg Koch, co-founder Stone Brewing
In nearly a decade of writing about small business, there is no single group I’ve enjoyed talking to more than craft brewers. It’s an industry that attracts passionate beer-lovers of all stripes, meaning it has more than its share of fun-loving oddballs. (Yes, a cult-like religious …
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Tags: beer , beer wars , brewing , craft beer , films , michael moore , microbrew , stone brewing
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March 16, 2010 at 12:11 pm by
Amy DuFault
It’s no secret the denim industry is extremely resource intensive.
We’ve learned just how intensive in recent years, thanks to research by eco journalists and, notably, an article in WWD by Ross Tucker in which Levi Strauss & Co. publicly “shared results of its life cycle assessment on what went into making one pair of its iconic Levi’s 501 style.”
Levi’s being to jeans what Kleenex is to tissue, people were listening.
According to Tucker, Levi’s found that making one pair of 501’s requires almost 920 gallons …
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Tags: denim , denim Design Lab , EDUN , fair trade , James jeans , Joe's jeans , Linda Loudermilk , loomstate , nudie jeans , organic cotton , recycled denim , reuse denim , Ross Tucker , serfontaine , socially conscious , sweat-shop free , U2 , WWD
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March 16, 2010 at 10:26 am by
Stephanie Rogers
“Are you worried about the economy? If so, pay close attention, because in an economic meltdown, non-hybrid seeds could become more valuable than even silver and gold.”
That almost makes sense…until you discover these words came out of the mouth of a pitchman selling $150 packages of seeds in between Glenn Beck’s inveterate weeping about socialism-fascism-Nazism-[insert ism of choice]ism and Hawaiian birth certificates, and things take a turn for creepy.
Fear is a powerful motivator, and when millions of people across the country are waiting for Armageddon, advertising a “Survival Seed Bank” on …
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Tags: backyard gardening , crisis gardens , Edible Gardens , heirloom vegetables , seeds , survivalism
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March 16, 2010 at 10:03 am by
Luanne Bradley
You’ve decided to up your game and green your urban nest. Before phoning that $150-an-hour architect who erected your sister’s efficient rectangular hillside dwelling, pick up this third revised source book, ecoDesign, from Chronicle Books. Inside, you’ll find more than 700 everyday consumer products, resourced by environmental educator and consultant, Alastair Fuad-Luke, a lecturer at Cranfield University in the UK.
The emphasis, naturally, is on recycled, recyclable, reusable and energy efficient. Don’t even worry about the taste factor, since everybody is getting into the game when it comes to upscale …
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Tags: books , consumer , design , energy , green , home , lighting , recycled , reusable
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March 15, 2010 at 1:00 pm by
Anna Brones
Tight schedule with no time for an outdoor dose of fresh air? Not too worry. Bottled Air brings that breath of fresh air to you, leaving you the time to get your to-do list done.
Yes, bottling fresh air is an actual thing.
In the UK, a study found that 74% of workers feel stressed on a daily basis. (Shocking, we know.) But instead of considering promoting 20 minute breaks for a set of sun salutations or a brisk walk outside, The National Trust has a better solution: offering bottled fresh …
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Tags: bottled air , fresh bottled air , National Trust , nature , stress management , urban living
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March 15, 2010 at 12:33 pm by
Katherine Butler
Eco-friendly hair color. It’s so enigmatic it deserves its own sentence fragment. Does it really exist? Can you get lasting hair color without color-binding ammonia? Is a brunette really a redhead and a blonde really a blonde when false colors are involved? Does George Clooney really mean that he’s never getting married? (Sorry, just threw that in there.) Some experts estimate that between 65 to 75 percent of women dye their hair, and it is believed that the practice goes all the …
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Tags: box color , dark blonde , eco hair color , green hair color , hair , hair color
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March 13, 2010 at 11:04 am by
Amy DuFault
The world’s most amazing necklace is here! Repeat, world’s most amazing necklace!
Coming to you straight from eco-catalog pioneer VivaTerra, this tiered necklace is made from vintage silk scraps covering wood beads.
Fully adjustable to wear long or short, this piece gives maybe too much interest to plain t-shirts and little black dresses. (Wait until you see how many people stop and ask you where you got it).
Comes in an on-trend for spring turquoise blue, or a rich raspberry.
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Tags: eco , eco-catalog , Little black dresses , vintage silk , Viva Terra
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March 13, 2010 at 10:00 am by
Susan Chaityn Lebovits
Tangy and sweet, this fruit is packed with flavonoids (like those in red wine), which halt cell damage, are packed with vitamins C and E, and are currently being studied to slow cancer growth and boost memory and mood. True, they can be a real beyotch to peel, but we’ve found a youtube video to walk you through it – including an underwater trick to separate the pith (tough white interior) from the arils (juice and seed sack). Here are five …
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Tags: antioxidants , pomegranate salad , recipes
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March 12, 2010 at 12:48 pm by
Stephanie Rogers
There’s no denying that the cannabis sativa plant has played a huge role in the music industry for decades, but this newest usage might be the most surprising: hemp speakers. And in the case of Tone Tubby, using hemp as one of the main materials isn’t just a gimmicky nod to the love affair between weed and rock n’ roll – it’s all about the sound.
Take apart a speaker and you’ll find that one of the most essential elements to sound quality is just a cone made out of paper. But …
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Tags: Audio , green products , hemp , industrial hemp , music , musicians , shopping , speakers
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