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Shop Sustainably This Black Friday November 27th, 2008
Keep Your Holiday Shopping Local
Recession or not, this year’s Black Friday promises to include the usual long lines at 4:00 AM at your favorite department store, piles of coupons, and rock-bottom prices. But, whether or not you’re heading out...more
Green Dreams August 27th, 2008
New Yorkers Trade The Office For The Barn
A Harvard MBA, six-figure job as an investment banker, and TriBeCa apartment didn’t stop Torrey Reade, 56, from wanting to go back to basics, trading her city life for a 126-acre farm in southern New...more
Where Beauty Meets Sustainability July 11th, 2008
Why Shouldn't Beauty Be a Requirement for All Things Sustainable?
The other day I subscribed to Reactions a blog that was recommended to me by a friend. It is written by the graphic design firm MSLK, a local company (Long Island City) with an obvious...more
Charge it to the Earth July 11th, 2008
Green Credit Cards Offer Carbon-Free Shopping
For a conscious consumer, there is no end to the ethical dilemmas of credit cards. Not only do they facilitate the massive over-consumption that our nation is criticized for, but they are tools of self-destruction...more
Which College Is the Greenest? July 9th, 2008
New Survey Reports which Schools Make the Eco-Grade
As if choosing a campus wasn’t hard enough, this year The Princeton Review is adding green ratings to some of their college guides. The green rating score is a composite of factors from building and...more
Wal-Mart The Locavore July 7th, 2008
Superstore Works To Reduce Food Miles
Hold onto your shopping carts—Wal-Mart has picked up on the locavore trend and is now touting locally grown produce in its stores. According to the The Associated Press, the company will spend $400 million this...more
Eliminating Capitalism? July 4th, 2008
Terracycle Turns Trash into Useful Stuff
Archaeologists from the future might think that the most valuable product from contemporary society is our garbage. The Egyptians and Incans horded gold in royal tombs, and we horde our plastic refuse in giant landfills!...more
Your Rubbish is Someone's Gold June 26th, 2008
Re-Sell Your Way to Green Living
Even though you don't want that lumpy old chair from Grandma's country house anymore, someone else might! As any city-dweller knows, sometimes all you have to do to get rid of something is to put...more
Is Kiwi Fruit the Fuel of the Future? June 20th, 2008
New Zealand Explores this Fuzzy Source of Biofuel
What’s small, fuzzy on the outside, green on the inside, and may be filling our gas tanks as well as decorating our fruit salads? You guessed it, the kiwi fruit. New research out of New Zealand adds...more
Questioning Carbon Offsets June 20th, 2008
Do Voluntary Funds Spur Innovation or Just Offset Carbon Guilt?
As everyone knows, greenhouse gases are causing Earth’s climate to change and warm, which will have catastrophic results if we do not take action now. Although the US is only 4.5 percent of the world's...more
