Starre's Healthy Summer Coffee Energy Drink Recipe
Too many so-called energy drinks are missing key ingredients to give you truly sustained and healthy power. Too many refined sugars and caffeine, but no sustenance, and ingredients are processed and packaged months before you drink it. Fresh is always better and more life-sustaining– and if you’re looking for real…
Recipe from Emeril LaGasse's New Book "Farm to Fork": Crostini with Ricotta and Spring Peas
Emeril LaGasse’s newest cookbook, Farm to Fork (available June 1, 2010), embraces local, organic, healthy food and recipes. From the man who hosts the popular Emeril Green cooking show on the Discovery Channel, the book covers how to cook up leafy greens, herbs, milk, eggs, cheese, meats, fish, grains, homemade…
Brooklyn Designs 2010: Frameicarium's Ant Farm Art
FRAMEicariums are the brainchild of designers Katie Vitale and Hugh Hayden, and they are seriously one of the coolest pieces of affordable art I have ever seen. They are ant farms reimagined as wall art, literally living sculptures made by the hard work of the ants enclosed in them. Using…
Pine & Calendula: Two Magical Herbal Oils for Beauty & Health
I’m no Drew Barrymore – I don’t use the word ‘magical’ very often. But sometimes it applies, and I’m not talking about supernatural phenomena here. I mean magic of an earthly sort, those moments of amazing interaction between us and the natural world where everything seems to fit together –…
First Princeton Sustainable Fashion Competition: Creative Recycling at Its Best
The Sustainable Fashion Competition was held at the lovely Princeton Art Museum Galleries I was lucky enough to be asked to judge Princeton University’s first-ever Sustainable Fashion Competition a few weeks ago, and it was so much fun. The event was organized through student group Greening Princeton. Kelly Rouser, Chenyu…
Video Tour of Stewart+Brown's Fall, 2010 Collection
Stewart + Brown has been making eco fashion since 2002, and from the very first collection I spied in late 2004 until today, the brand has been defined by an incredible sense of classy sophistication, without ever being considered old ladyesque (though I’ve always felt that most of the companies’…
RIPE: Fresh Cocktail Mixers with Real, Pronounceable Ingredients
In a rush before a gaggle of guests were due to arrive at my house, I was staring at a shelf full of pre-made margarita mixers at my local liquor store. With no time to run to the grocery store, making my own was out, so I grabbed the first…
Brooklyn Designs 2010 Green Finds: Colleen and Eric
It was a sunny and perfect afternoon on the Brooklyn waterfront (specifically, DUMBO) last Thursday, and also the opening of Brooklyn Designs, the annual local-BK event that highlights the borough’s most creative furniture and home decor. Inhabitat has the full coverage of the event and all the green furniture (plus…
On the Run with Label Eco Fashion: Spring/Summer 2010
Elvira Dress • 91% Silk / 9% Spandex. The first thing you’ll notice about Label, by Natalie Sydoruk and Shawna Robinson is the edginess of the design, then you’ll clue into the sustainable aspects. Or at least that was my reaction to this 80’s meets Blade Runner interpretation of day-…
What Does a Terrestrial Oil Spill Look Like? Chevron’s Mess in the Amazon
A group of people washing their clothes beneath a mass of oil pipelines. Some broken. It smelled strongly of petroleum here. Beth Doane has seen the impact of oil spills on communities, first-hand. And unlike the recent oil spill in the Gulf that’s got the world’s attention, Chevron’s negligence in…
