Tuesday January 27, 2009

happy heart day gift ideas

I think that if you’re lucky to have someone special in your life, you should treat every day like it’s St. Valentine’s Day. But I do like the ceremony of the so-called Hallmark holiday — exchanging

Categories: blog holidays Tags: gifts

Tuesday January 27, 2009

phonebook shmonebook

Who needs ‘em anyway?Unless you’re artist Long-Bin Chen, and have the skill to carve up these polluting wastes of ink and trees into the beautiful Buddhas below, you probably don’t even look at a paper phone

Categories: blog recycling Tags: trees

Monday January 26, 2009

getting involved

Was anyone else inspired as much as I was by Obama’s call to service? I mean, isn’t this what the country has been needing — someone who is going to take the lead and guide people

Categories: action blog energy environment Tags: clean energy conservation energy efficiency

Saturday January 24, 2009

repurposed sign gives birth to new-old restaurant

[Image: David F. Gallagher of Lightning Field]

I was walking up Flatbush Avenue a couple of years ago when I noticed this great old sign in a window attached to an empty store front. In gold leaf

Categories: blog food/drink recycling Tags: brooklyn/nyc eating local

Friday January 23, 2009

the simple truth about coal

And the truth is… it’ll never be clean. Coal is a dirty substance. It’s polluting and devastating to mine, and polluting to burn. It dirties our water supply with mercury and our air with carbon dioxide.

Categories: blog energy environment Tags: clean energy climate change pollution

Friday January 23, 2009

stop gas flaring in nigeria

At the same time Chevron runs ads urging you to “leave the car at home more,” it is wasting massive amounts of natural gas by burning it in the open air. In Nigeria, these poisonous

Categories: action blog energy environment Tags: pollution social justice

Tuesday January 20, 2009

hurray! inauguration day!

Watch the swearing-in ceremony live starting at 11:00 a.m.

Share your inauguration day party photos and stories here.

And text OBAMA to 56333 for instructions on how to send in congratulation messages and pictures from your mobile phone.

Categories: blog Tags: politics

Monday January 19, 2009

save handmade toys and clothes!

This is sad, but true. It will soon be illegal to sell toys and clothes handmade in the US, Canada, or Europe unless they are put through the same rigorous testing that is now required for

Categories: action blog health Tags: handmade kids

Monday January 19, 2009

happy MLK jr day!

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Categories: blog holidays Tags: eco quotes

Sunday January 18, 2009

smell assault

They put the signs up just a day before they committed the heinous act. The signs said they were to begin painting the common areas, including hallways and apartment doors in our building. It was too

Categories: blog environment health home Tags: pollution