Navy Showers
As I think I’ve mentioned before, one of my biggest enviro-sins is bathing. That is, I love long showers, swimming-pool like baths, hot tubs, pools, the ocean, lakes, puddles and running through sprinklers (I think it comes from my Australian roots of being a die-hard swimmer). Point: I love water.…
Deliciousness for Your Hair
PLUS I just made the best hair mask ever! My locks get seriously dry in the summer (moreso because I’m a swimming fiend, in and out of salt water, pools, lakes– basically anything deeper than my knees qualifies for swimming in) and my usual extra-strength conditioner is not doing the…
Pull up a Green Armchair and hit this book
You want to know what the latest green companies have up their sleeves? Well, there are two ways you can answer that question: Tune into Josh Dorfman’s radio show on Sirius Satellite Network, The Lazy Environmentalist OR pick up the book with the same cushy green title. Josh highlights the…
The Hippies DID Have It Right
I’m loving Mark Morford’s column from about two weeks ago in SFGate, celebrating the original Hippies. After much bad-mouthing of the counterculture folks in the last 15 years (even as fashion designers continually emulate their style, adding elements like flower-power prints and navel-grazing beads to their collections on an almost…
US Green Builders Praise and Celebrate
What do you get when you mix green engineers, architects, and contractors with alcohol, awards, and a massive Samba band? Building-savants dancing the Brazilian tango and a fantastically good time. Image by Christopher Auger-Domínguez, Studio 4b. Saturday night, I attended the USGBC’s (United States Green Building Council) first annual LEEDers…
Stella Does Target…in 10 minutes
Stella proves that her 42-piece line for Target Australia (which sold out in 10 minutes) is the coolest thing since Tickle Me Elmo. Reports from down under show images of crazy women waiting in a 400 person queue before the store even opened; exposing the breasts of poor, unsuspecting mannequins…
Oscars Still Light Green
Well, the Oscars are over, and while there’s just no way that a party this big can be environmentally-friendly, efforts were made to make this Oscar greener than ever (though the website doesn’t detail exactly how impacts were reduced), it says: This year, the Academy, the Oscar telecast producer Laura…
The Good in Goodwill
One of the advantages of living in a city where the distribution of wealth is so disproportionate and patently unfair is that lots of rich people throw away lots of nice things. If you are a scavenger or a dumpster diver by principle, then Los Angeles is a good place…
Patagonia and Howie's
It’s been awhile since I’ve hit the trail, but I’ve got a spring break this year, and dammit, I’m going to use it. Since I’m a student again, I have to vacation on the cheap, and so I’m headed to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee/North Carolina. I’ve never really…
Hair-Club for Fashionistas
Loudermilk uses human hair for some fringe benefits at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
