February 9th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Stephanie Rogers
Walk into store full of gadgets and home goods, and you’re generally hard-pressed to find things like clocks, radios, calculators and lighting made with something other than plastic or unsustainably produced metal. If you do manage to score something made of wood, it’s probably a holdover from the paneling-obsessed 70s – not exactly stylish.
A company [...]
February 8th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Kristen Banker
Valentine’s Day marks the biggest shopping day of the year, when it comes to chocolate and flowers. By purchasing organic and Fair Trade chocolate and flowers your money will no longer be going towards toxic pesticides, child slavery, and farm worker exploitation.
Organic Bouquet partners with artisans and growers who adhere to rigorous U.S. and international [...]
February 8th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Kristen Banker
Why not make your next dinner party greener by toasting with recycled glassware? Thanks to some fabulous recycled glass options making a statement with innovative glass pieces and reducing unnecessary waste now go hand in hand.
Why recycled glass? Using recycled glass reduces energy input into glass industry furnaces and decreases processing by-products by eliminating the [...]
February 8th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Stephanie Rogers
Since “going paperless” has proven to be a difficult challenge for so many companies despite their good intentions, printers are still an integral part of most offices. But even with waste-preventing practices in place, there’s still all that ink and wasted paper.
Enter the PrePeat, a new eco printer that uses zero ink or toner, and [...]
February 7th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Chris
(Images via: Sword Fishing Central, Molly O Brown, Kid Cyber, Take No Prisoners, One to Many, Xenophilius, Free Dog Listings)Roger Daltrey of The Who once sang that he could “see for miles and miles.” As the legendary British rockers prepare for tonight’s halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans [...]
February 7th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Stephanie Rogers
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) seeks a Commercial Director for its Americas Regional Office [Seattle, WA]. MSC is the world’s leading certification and eco-labeling program for wild capture fisheries. Through its certification and labelling program, the MSC contributes to reversing decline in global fish stocks by identifying and rewarding and creating marketing incentives for sustainable [...]
February 6th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Delana
It would be easy to see death and depression in Claire Morgan’s visual art installations. After all, they often feature dead bugs, taxidermy animals, and dead or dying plant matter. The components are arranged in visually stunning tableaux that impart a simultaneous feeling of wonder and horror. But at the heart of it, Morgan’s sculptures [...]
February 6th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Stephanie Rogers
We’re living in an increasingly green world – but that doesn’t mean the green police are coming to take away all of the fun things in life. Or are they? A series of teaser videos from automaker Audi features dorky green police that bust people for environmentally unfriendly actions – including actual police officers idling [...]
February 4th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Angie
It’s cold and snowy in many places throughout the world. So let’s think warm thoughts like warm summer sand and sandcastles. In fact, think hot. Burning hot, flames of hell hot, and mix that with sand. What do you get? Dante’s Inferno. What in hell is that? No, not the game. It is a sand [...]
February 4th, 2010 / Comments Off / by Stephanie Rogers
High school and college students are more ecologically aware than ever, but a desire to help the earth doesn’t have to mean giving up your passion for art, literature, education and psychology to focus on traditionally “green” careers. More and more colleges are tying the environment to every program of study, including Vermont’s Green Mountain [...]
