Halloween in a Hybrid
Hey, my cab looked just like this one! I try to avoid taking taxis in NYC as much as possible (the subway is cheaper, more eco-friendly, and has all sorts of fun people to look at to boot), but once in a while, when you’re wearing a feather-topped costume, a…
Ladies Love Lube!
Guestblogger Wendy Strgar, is the owner and founder of Good Clean Love (they make the above lube) a manufacturer of all-natural love and intimacy products. Married for over 23 years with four children, Wendy teaches about Making Love Sustainable, a green philosophy of relationships which recognizes the importance of valueing the renewable…
Get Out of the House!
Don’t start hibernating yet, there are a ton of great green events coming up! Swap-0-Rama-Rama When: October 8th, from 1pm to 8PM Where: 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave. Brooklyn What’s Swap-o-rama-rama? Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the…
Animals In Medical Research?
When we talk of using animals for biomedical research there are two ground cases as to why it is morally unacceptable; first, it wrongly violates the rights of animals and second because it wrongly imposes on sentient creatures avoidable suffering. In the following I will explain when neither of these…
Good Magazine Launch Party: Smashing!
I partied like I gave a damn at Good Magazine’s NYC launch party tonight. The party was held at Emergency Arts, a fantastic space that is not only a green building, but is filled with art that responds to “environmental, political, and social crises within New York City and around the globe”.…
Burning Man/Cooling Man?
I have made art projects that have ended up at Burning Man, my friends have all (seemingly) gone to Burning Man, and I was supposed to go to the art and music desert festival this year, but life (in the form of being accepted to grad school unexpectedly) intervened.…
"One's Trash is Another's Treasure"
This flower was made from reams of old tissue paper at the Materials Exchange. This is so much more fun than letting it rot in a dump. You could make giant-size flowers for a party, create a fun kids’ project (create a land of tissue paper!) or use it to…
Truly Natural Jewelry
This gorgeous jewelry is Verde by Gwen Davis. Gwen is dedicated to creating really beautiful and 100% sustainable jewelry. Using bamboo, Tagua nuts, vintage beads and Swarovski crystals, and recycled elements, she creates everything from earrings and bracelets to dramatic neck cuffs and pendants (above). Every part of the…
POMED Party Pics!
The POMED (Protect Our Mother Earth’s Daughters) party at Earth in NYC was a success! Brian Howard of E/The Environmental Magazine and Lisabeth Weber of fundraisingpins.com. Yours truly with pink dress. Danelle Brown of Verte (the organizer of the event) with speakers from Kids with Cameras, Architecture for Humanity, and…
Getting Catty
There’s an exhaustive review of the Catwalk on the Wild Side event over at Treehugger. Unfortunately we were not able to cover this party/ecofashion show, so we will have to rely on their take on it. But suffice to say, it wasn’t all greenlovin’ at this eco-fashion extravanganza which was,…
