Do you VIV?
We make the biggest environmental decisions each day by choosing where we spend our dollars. What if the stores that we shop at every day had added incentive to go green? Enter VIV.
We make the biggest environmental decisions each day by choosing where we spend our dollars. What if the stores that we shop at every day had added incentive to go green? Enter VIV.
“Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It Means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community [...]
Mother's Day is less than a month away! That means I've been scouring Etsy for some eco-friendly gifts for my momma.
“Can a business thrive that offers honestly-made, useful products, while charging a fair price and fairly paying its employees?” A Greensboro, NC company called Eco Everyday hopes so and so do we!
We’re a nation of gadget lovers. Our computers and cellphones and MP3 players rapidly become outdated, obsolete, or simply not-so-cool anymore, and our consumer urge is to simply replace them instead of fixing or upgrading. The EPA estimates that 2.25 million tons of electronics were disposed of in 2007, and 80 to 85% of them [...]
I hate moving on so many levels. It equals upheaval in every sense of the word, usually happens on the hottest day of the summer (in my move-once-a-year undergrad days anyway), and, worst of all- it means boxes. Finding boxes, saving boxes, packing boxes, unpacking boxes, and then wondering how you’ll fit all those boxes [...]
Photo by Flickr User Marina Cast. Green and single on Valentine’s Day again??? Don’t give up all hope just yet and confine yourself to a life of a lonely, middle-aged ecosexual with a house full of cats, bamboo and organic vegetables. There are many dating sites on the internet made just for people like you. Dating [...]
We love browsing through Etsy.com and posting some of the more catchy wares found there. For those unfamiliar, Etsy is a site for posting and purchasing handmade crafts and goods of all shapes and sizes.
Fair trade, sustainability, recycled materials, mindful consumption, and environmental awareness are all in a days work at Be Good Designs. Crafting fine leather goods using material that would end up as trash is the angle this company is taking all the way to the bank.
If you love Gaiam like I do, here’s a cool widget that’s worth checking out. It’s the Gaiam “Green Deal of the Day” widget. This aptly named app does just what it says, it shows you what’s on sale at Gaiam each day. If you have a blog, or you use Facebook or [...]