Get your tickets now: 2010 Women of the Green Generation Conference
The 2010 Women of the Green Generation Conference will be hosted at the LEED-certified eco-luxury Evo South building in downtown Los Angeles. Photo via Flickr: Todd Jones Photography Are women, by...
View Article‘Whole Paycheck’ lowers prices
Photo via Flickr: Ilovemypit Those still miffed with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey over his decidedly right-wing health care harangue last summer will not be pleased to read that their most effective...
View ArticleStop vampire power from sucking your wallet dry
This video would probably be more apropos to post around Halloween than the middle of August, thanks to the Vincent Price–esque voice-over, but I thought it would be the perfect complement to my Eco...
View ArticleA billion people could become climate refugees
Photo via Flickr: Edyta Materka I’m sorry to come back from the holiday weekend with sobering news, but when I read this yesterday it took my breath away: One billion people (a billion people!) may...
View ArticleNew iPad app lets you sign PDFs paper-free
Photo via Flickr: Veronica Belmont I apologize: A hectic writing schedule has kept me from posting here regularly in the past couple months. But you know what else has been slowing me down? Signing...
View ArticleWant to see the state of the economy? Head to the bulk bins
Photo via Flickr: Bcmom A few hours after my Eco Etiquette column about eating organic on a food stamp budget was published yesterday, I went marketing at Whole Foods. While I’m not egotistical enough...
View ArticleTwo words you should get used to hearing: Collaborative Consumption
There are two words that I’ve been hearing a lot of these days: Collaborative Consumption. If you haven’t, and this sounds like the beginning of a sociology lecture, then hold your horses — while the...
View ArticleA more effective alternative to the plastic bag tax?
Photo via Flickr: How can I recycle this Much to-do has been made over the plastic bag tax. While Washington, DC, was able to successfully impose a 5-cent grocery bag fee, other cities’ efforts (like...
View ArticleGreen companies top the Inc. 500 list
A wise tree hugger once told me: Ecology and economy — you cannot separate the two. Nowhere is this clearer than in this year’s Inc. 500, the much-anticipated annual list of America’s fastest growing...
View ArticleThe link between old sneakers and our schools
Photo via Flickr: rolands.lakis It’s been two years since I bought a new pair of running shoes (I switched to walking when I was pregnant), and I finally picked up a new pair yesterday. There’s the...
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