Tag: Wine - Page 7
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Six Green Hangover Remedies
Some might say if you have a hangover, you might already be green (not the environmental kind of green, ahem). But if you want to cure that throbbing headache from last night's Christmas party or holiday get-together, take a
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How to Go Green: New Year's
We generally run into two schools of thought on New Year's Eve: it's either an excuse for a raucous night at the bar and massive quantities of bubbly, or it's a night for amateurs that's better spent watching the ball
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Recycled Hotel Rooms from Wine Barrels for the Oenophile
Today's special is for the wine lovers among us: it is a hotel in Stavoren, a very old port in northern Holland. The rooms where you sleep are in 15,000 litre wine barrels. There are four of them, each created from Swiss drums that used to contain
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Getting Green Wines from 4 Great Wine Regions
While the definition of what makes green wine is wildly debatable--different certifications allow different levels of sulfites, which are a naturally occurring part of the fermentation process--one thing we can agree on is
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Greenwash Watch: Whole Foods' "Green" Beaujolais Nouveau
The Whole Foods website is all gaga over today's launch of this year's "green" Beaujolais Nouveau.
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Can Design Improve Wine?
I have been convinced of the environmental benefits of bag-in-box wines, as they carry more wine in less packaging than any other form. (glass is heavy and is usually down-cycled, tetra-paks are light but not very green). Unfortunately, the selection
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World's First 100 % USDA Certified Organic Bar Celebrates Opening Night
Gustorganic before the bar, courtesy of Keetsa GustOrganic, an all-organic restaurant in New York is now also home to the world's first all-organic bar. Using entirely organic spirits—beers, cocktails, wine, and liquor, GustOrganic is the first bar
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Yellow + Blue Wines Expands Its Use of Sustainable Tetra Pak Cartons
Yellow + Blue is expanding its use of sustainable Tetra Pak(R) cartons to include its Torrontes varietal. After the success of its Malbec in the Tetra Pak packaging, the brand of organically grown Argentinian wines has decided to
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How to Go Green: Wine, Old School Halloween Crafts and Tasty Indian Stew
:: Toast to a sustainable future using our How to Go Green: Wine and Buy Green: Organic Cabernet Sauvignon guides.
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Eco-Club Wars: Dancers (Literally) Light Up Rotterdam's WATT, London's Club4Climate
Though Amy Winehouse, the pop singer I erroneously reported would open Holland's "sustainable" WATT dance clublast week was nowhere near Rotterdam (Iggy Pop & The Stooges were the opening act), there were revelers enough to light up the dance floors
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Russian River Wine Fests Become Water Teetotalers
How many plastic water bottles would you think are disposed of at wine festivals? Couple thousand? (Event that seems like a ton of plastic for just one event). Well, three events - the Winter Wineland, Barrel
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Which Is Greener, Wine Bottle or Box? Depends on the Box
TreeHugger spares no expense or our livers in our search to find the greenest packaging for wine. After reading Ruben Anderson's article in Tyee, where he said "Do you really want to try to look your children in the eye and explain that they have to
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NY Times on Boxed Wine, PS1 Urban Farm
Fun on the Farm Down Home in Long Island City "P.S. 1, in Long Island City, Queens, has been hosting its weekly summer dance-party series, Warm Up Saturdays, for 10 years. This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard has been
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Which Is Greener, Wine Bottle or Box? Neither.
In Ontario, Canada, the government-owned Liquor stores have been pushing Tetra Paks as eco-packaging, claiming a much lower carbon footprint in manufacture and transport than the traditional glass bottle. They
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Slow Freight Joins the Slow Movement
That's the Kathleen and May, pulling into Dublin with 22 pallets--that's 21,000 bottles of Fair Wind Wine--from Languedoc, carried by the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV). They are the "owners and operators of the first European
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Could You Drink Screw-Top Wine To Save The Planet?
That is the question that Fetzer will be putting to the world as they attempt to take sustainability one-step further.
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How Does Organic Winemaking Work? Part II
When we left
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How Does Organic Winemaking Work? PART I
I recently traveled to Bonterra, maker of the most "wine
