Tag: Buy Local - Page 2
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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
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GOOD Launches Local Community at Pop-Up Center
Swap goods and skills, donate old shoes for art, make a mini-windmill, bake bread and learn to harvest honey from
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Green Gardening Tools are Getting Brighter and Better
Last month this TreeHugger was complaining about how the most innocent of pleasures, such as guerrilla gardening, was being turned into a business. Now I have returned to Selfridges to re-test my thesis, as in shop.
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More Reason to Eat Local: Demand for Greens Leading to Salad Slaves
"Reformed" vegetarian Lierre Keith always said that vegetarianism and veganism is not always the "kind to the earth, don't kill animals" philosophy it's cracked up to be. Last week The Guardian exposed one of the dirty secrets of Europe's insatiable
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The Quest for a Greener Houseplant
Houseplants, with all of their air-purifying, stress-reducing beauty, deserve a place in just about every home and office. We've all done it: grabbed an impulse philodendron or African violet from the grocery store or bought
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Send in Your Dust for a Personalized Brick
Clean out the corners of your room, under the sofa and behind your bed and send the dust in to "Laid to Rest". If you do it quickly enough you can have your own personal brick made with your name on it.
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MindBodyGreen Deals, the Groupon for Greenies
Groupon's pretty great for eco-bargain hunters like me-- in New York City, it has offered discounts on the likes of American Apparel, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and GustOrganics (as pictured above.) Not all of the sales stem from
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There Is More To The Local Movement Than Just Food
According to a study commissioned by Michigan's Local First, "when West Michigan consumers choose a locally owned business over a non-local alternative, $73 of every $100 spent stays in the community. By
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The Economics of Happiness as a Response to Environmental Crisis (video)
From the confessions of an economic hitman to David Korten urging that we rid ourselves of the Wall Street mafia, the green movement is no stranger to the idea that we may need to rethink conventional economic
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Food Posters From the Past are Recipes for the Present (Slideshow)
The message on posters from World Wars I and II are often similar to the messages we try to send at TreeHugger, such as growing your own food, walking instead of driving, reducing waste and conserving. Two years ago I
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Ask Pablo: Can You Hatch Store-Bought Eggs?
Contrary to common belief, a rooster is not required for hens to produce eggs. With this said, most
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Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food's Carbon Footprint (Slideshow)
A picture is worth a thousand words. How can we grab people's attention, and get them to eat more local food? Yes, local food -- because it is healthier, slashes food's carbon footprint, and makes you savour the seasons again.
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Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food's Carbon Footprint
Around the world, the local food movement is gaining momentum, and anyone from celebrity chefs to simply conscious people are trying to stick to the 100 Mile Diet. Why? Because it is healthier for you, and healthier for the planet. Local food means big
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Urban Outfitters' Faux-Local NYC Storefront Isn't Ironic It's Pathetic
This all just leaves me shaking my head before it falls into my hands: Urban Outfitters is opening three new stores in New York City this year (as if they need another branch, to join the Flintstone's
