Category: Green news

Mark it on your calendars: October 1 is World Vegetarian Day! It kicks off World Vegetarian Awareness Month. (photo from here)

Tomorrow, 23 September, is World Wildlife Fund’s “What a Difference a Day Makes” global online event. If you twitter, post a message to Twitter with tag #wwf24 to let everyone know what you’re doing to help Mother Earth.

I was happy to see this poster at my local pharmacy yesterday. I had asked them before if they took back expired or unused medications, and they didn’t. It’s good that New York is stepping up its efforts to keep the water supply clean. For more information, visit the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The newly renovated Henry Miller’s Theatre is home to this season’s Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of the musical Bye Bye Birdie. The show is now in previews with opening scheduled for 15 October 2009. Why is this news for Green Unlimited you ask? Only because it is Broadway’s FIRST and ONLY green theatre. According to…

I was in Chicago this past Labor Day weekend and while walking around the Millennium Park area, saw a solar-powered trash compactor. The city first started using them in the beaches. Called Big Belly, once trash reaches the top of the cans, it breaks an electronic beam that triggers a motor to mash the trash….

I heard this on the radio this morning: Georgetown’s Four Seasons Hotel will be installing little speed bumps that will generate electricity when cars drive over them.

While roaming around a newly opened supermarket yesterday, I spotted packaging for meat which I’ve never seen before. The person in charge of that section was beaming with pride as she told me and my boyfriend that the meat was organic. “Yes ma’am, sir, the meat is really tender and it’s organic too. They take…

Cecile took me to my first eyebrow threading yesterday. I’ve always been interested in it, but was always too chicken to try out something new, especially something that could possibly be painful. It did hurt a little bit so unlike waxing, which is a quick pain, threading was prolonged discomfort. But that was mostly when…

As the Philippines mourns the loss of its democracy icon, former President Cory Aquino, I got to thinking about death and burial practices again. I read about eco-friendly coffins made from banana sheaves by a Colorado-based company called Ecoffins. The caskets take about 6 months to 2 years to biodegrade. The bodies aren’t embalmed, which…

I consider Post-it Notes one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Unfortunately, it’s paper. I read about Stickies, a free program for your PC so you don’t have to use those beautiful—oh I mean wasteful—little yellow (and other pretty colored) notes. If you want to purchase a program, Post-it actually has a digital version.