Thursday October 22, 2009

international day of climate action

This Saturday, over 4000 events are being planned in over 170 countries to make a loud statement about the importance of action to abate climate change. It may just be the most widespread day of environmental

Categories: action blog events Tags: climate change

Thursday October 15, 2009

care to make a difference: blog action day 09

This post is part of Blog Action Day ’09

Floods, droughts, super storms – these are not the things of fantasy, of Hollywood blockbuster disaster films. They are real. And real people who live off the land

Categories: action blog community Tags: climate change humanitarian social justice

Tuesday October 6, 2009

focusing on permaculture

[design by Andrew Jeeves]

Some of you already know that I’m in the midst of pursuing a permaculture design certificate (or PDC, more about it here). In order to focus on my studies and design project, I

Categories: blog education Tags: permaculture

Thursday October 1, 2009

give synthetics the boot (bag)

Icebreaker, maker of some of the finest Merino wool activewear around, will be “bagging synthetics” next week.

Starting Monday, October 5, the New Zealand based company will be taking your stinky old synthetic, petroleum-based t-shirts (think polyester)

Categories: blog events fashion Tags: nyc sustainable