Tag: Buy Local
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Winter Coat Turns into a Sleeping Bag for the Homeless
Read how a Detroit student designer has created a non-profit company to make sleeping bag/coats for the homeless.
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Ibex's Wool Will Be 100% American, Grown To Sewn
The clothing manufacturer plans to source, fabricate and sew its Shak Lite wool garments completely within the USA
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Green America’s Top Green Businesses of 2011
The People's Choice for Green Businesses of the Year select 10 best shops, goods and services
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Adivasi Body: Delicious on Skin, Nose and Globe
The bath and body goodies hail from my hometown in Connecticut, handmade in small batches making it a pretty local treat for anyone in the NYC metro-area.
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'Tis it the Season To Avoid Green Guides?
Piers Fawkes of PSFK asks "What has happened to the environmental movement?"
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Forget Cyber Monday, It's Green Gift Monday
If you are going to spend money today, do it for a good cause and on a green gift.
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One In Five Canadians Crossing the Border To Get Into the Black Friday/ Cyber Monday Madness
It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.
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Forget Black Friday, Remember Small Business Saturday
Small business is the heartbeat of local communities and the engine of the US economy.
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Reoccupy Main Street: Small Business is the 99%
This holiday season, invest your time and money in family, neighborhood and community.
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Three Options For Black Friday
Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.
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This Black Friday, Occupy Main Street; Shop At A Local, Small Independent Merchant
Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.
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Rockaway Beach Rocks Locavore Eats in Thrifty Spaces
On this rainy start to the weekend -- and Fall -- I needed a little pick-me-up, some sunniness in the face of gray. I pulled out my iPhoto album and found the fix: sweet, summer
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Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle
When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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Artisan Yogurt Producer Choked Out of Business By Bureaucratic Red Tape
Just as it seems we may be moving back toward some sort of food culture in a nation plagued by the side effects of big Ag, red tape chokes another small producer out of business. Take the story of artisan yogurt producer Homa
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Project Ocean Is "Retail Activism" at its Best
Here's a new catch-phrase: retail activism. It refers to stores that get involved with political issues to raise awareness, raise money and presumably sell stuff. A great example in London right now is taking place at Selfridges'
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"Gobble" Helps You Order Take-Out From Your Neighbors' Kitchens
We can agree that most take-out is bad for you. We can agree that a home-cooked meal is usually far better than take-out both for you and for the environment. And we can probably agree that even if you're a great cook, a
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Food Swaps, Garden Workshops and GOOD's Good Deed Ops
Baker Ben traded his olive-red pepper bread for Lizanne's lemongrass-mint syrup who exchanged her nasturtium-carrot top pesto for freshly picked rosemary. The next
