Monday March 30, 2009

green pays

Here’s a great example of how taking steps to reduce our impact on the planet also improves the bottom line. NBC, giant TV network, saved$2 million last year by “going green.”

Read the blurb here.

Categories: blog Tags: entertainment money

Friday March 27, 2009

really, really free market

This Sunday, March 29th. Need I say more?

[via Nonsense NYC]

Really, Really Free Market

A bazaar and a celebration, where we discard capitalist notions of interaction and have fun trying new models of exchange. Expect and share free

Categories: blog recycling Tags: fun nyc shopping

Thursday March 26, 2009

permaculture applies

[Image: Chelsea Green via Treehugger

If there’s one thing I want to focus on from a permaculture class I attended last weekend it’s this: start small and intensively.

The principles of permaculture can apply to gardening, but they

Categories: agriculture blog food/drink Tags: eating farming gardens permaculture

Wednesday March 25, 2009

oh no they didn’t

My jaw dropped and I couldn’t stop shaking my head when the commercial came on. It was touting clean coal, and it was featuring President Obama. I don’t know what to say other than clean coal

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

Wednesday March 25, 2009

brooklyn food conference

More than exercise, nutrition dictates a person’s health and fitness level. Unfortunately, there is a frightening amount of inequality in access to healthful food. Here are some (NYC-centric) facts:

Residents in the poorest neighborhoods of NYC have

Categories: agriculture blog community events food/drink Tags: brooklyn/nyc eating farming food justice nyc politics

Wednesday March 25, 2009

signing petitions and letters pays off

Sometimes I receive an email or letter in response to a petition or letter I’ve signed stating that said petition helped make something happen. I just wanted to share with you one of these letters, to

Categories: action blog environment Tags: conservation

Wednesday March 25, 2009

it takes a planet: the links between health and environment

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible…. To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

— Bobby McLeod (Koori activist, aboriginal)

Next Thursday, April 2nd,

Categories: blog education environment events health Tags: pollution

Wednesday March 25, 2009

read ‘em and swap

We’ve all got a pile of books that we’ve either read or abandoned just collecting dust on the shelf. So why not give them a second life at the Desk Set’s Writer/Reader Mingle and Book Swap

Categories: blog books recycling Tags: brooklyn/nyc nyc shopping

Tuesday March 24, 2009

love water

Thousands have lived without love,not one without water.

Categories: action blog Tags: eco quotes water

Saturday March 21, 2009

world water day

Monday is World Water Day. I’m honoring the day by watching Flow, participating in a World Water Day Webinar (organized by New American Dream), and sponsoring a friend in the Tap Project Water Walk (Sunday 3/22

Categories: blog environment health holidays Tags: climate change pollution water