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  • Urban Oasis

    Do you want a mobile organic smoothie and juice truck in the Big Apple? Support this young couple from Long Island.

  • Final call for “Find Your Footprint” votes!

    It’s the final leg of the “Find Your Footprint” conservation contest, which runs until midnight, Wednesday, March 16! The contest sponsored by National Geographic with P&G; Future Friendly aims to raise awareness among young people of their environmental footprint. Six finalists are competing for the grand prize valued at $36,000. In case you haven’t voted…

  • Maple Syrup Time!

    Cecile suggested we check out Warrup’s Farm in Redding, Connecticut. Yesterday was the first day for collecting sap from the maple trees to make syrup. The farm is certified organic, and one can apply to their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) partnership program. The collecting buckets, or taps as they call them. That’s the sugarhouse in…

  • Support the EPA

    From Credo: Republicans have launched an unprecedented budget assault on clean air and public health protections — and Senate Democrats have two weeks to stop it. The House Republicans’ Continuing Resolution spending bill slashes this year’s remaining EPA budget by almost 60%, and contains numerous amendments that hamstring the Clean Air Act, block the EPA…

  • “Find Your Footprint” – vote now!

    P&G; Future Friendly and the National Geographic Society joined forces with their “Find Your Footprint” national school conservation education contest. The “Find Your Footprint” program aims to raise student awareness of their environmental footprint. Voting’s ongoing until March 16, 2011. So what’s in it for the winning school? The winner with the most votes gets…

  • Tapped

    I’ve known about this documentary “Tapped” for quite sometime now, but only had the chance to watch it lately. Boy, it made me suspicious of the bottled water industry now. It raises the question, “is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any…

  • All hail the king

    All hail the king

    We’re huge fans of Colin Firth here, so you can imagine how thrilled we were that he bagged the Best Actor trophy at the Oscars last night. Here’s something else to celebrate: He was wearing a Tom Ford suit that was made out of “ethical materials,” as Contact Music reports. His wife Livia was likewise…

  • Sleek, sustainable headphones

    A lot of people nowadays walk around listening to music, and if you do this too, you might as well use eco-friendly headphones. This particular pair by Ashcraft Design is made using recycled and sustainable materials, from the wood recycled from old guitars, to the leather that came from old clothes, to reclaimed aluminum.

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