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May 15, 2008
LIVE for Today!
LIVE for today...and tomorrow! Far from your typical energy drink, LIVE is a socially conscious, all-natural and organic beverage that donates 50% of its profits to charity. Each of their four flavors takes on a serious issue: Green Tea for Global Warming, Acai Berry for AIDS and HIV, Original for Youth Programs and Sugar-Free for Breast Cancer. Your flavor equals your cause. We are serious green tea drinkers over here - coincidence, I think not! But don't worry, all of the flavors rock, so maybe a little rotation is called for - spread the love. Don't despair if you've yet to see LIVE gracing your grocer's fridge; it's slated to be distributed in over 6,800 major retailers nationwide in the coming months. Oh, and, don't forget to recycle those cans (aluminum retains most of its embodied energy).
May 14, 2008
Green Your Life
Ever since GreenYour.com launched on Earth Day (in Beta), I can't seem to tear myself away. If you have ever wondered how to green pretty much anything, now there is an exceedingly useful resource. Everything is arranged in easy to find categories and subcategories, making this one of the most comprehensive, navigable go-green sites. Start out with the facts, move through to the tips and then end with products. GreenYour.com will lead you all the way to the water. Then all you have to do is drink—and they'll even show you how to do that, should you need it.
May 12, 2008
Keepin' It Squeaky Green!
I admit it, I'm a fanatic about keeping my home sparkling clean—but just looking clean isn't enough. The always charismatic Method boys, Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, just released their coffee table cool book on eco-friendly, safe approaches to cleaning. On Wednesday evening they signed their tongue-in-cheek books for swooning fans at Spring home store in San Francisco (one of my favorite spots to find green products). Cleanophiles lined up to get personal notes memorialized on their new guide, Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home.
True to the Method spirit, this book is fun, witty and smart. I was hoping to catch a few people dancing on the reclaimed tables at this late afternoon event where the Veev was flowing, but everyone behaved and indeed ... kept it pretty clean!
May 01, 2008
Fabulous Online Invites
Finding an intersection of style and sustainability is sometimes challenging. Take for instance the desire to use online (paper-free) invitations, which is honorable and easy but ugly! The busy, cartoonish look of Evite and other similar sites (I was an early fan of Evite for the record) doesn't exactly exude sophistication. Enter ping. This new online invite service has it all: beautifully designed templates, rich customization features, great RVSP list management, and integration with Facebook events. Our favorite feature has to be the email invitations that allow our guests to RSVP without having to go to a web site first—very convenient.
April 30, 2008
A Picture is Worth Two Tons of CO2
OK, we all know that digital photography is certainly better for the environment than traditional film photography, but is there anything better? Well if you are thinking about a new digital camera for Mother's Day (or Earth Day, or whatever) check out this "ECO-Green" special edition of the new Nikon COOLPIX S52, available exclusively from Ritz Camera. This cool camera is more than just green in color ... Ritz has partnered with carbonfund.org to offset 1.91 tons of carbon dioxide for each ECO-Green COOLPIX purchased. That number corresponds to the average American's monthly carbon footprint according to carbonfund.org research. They've focused their offsets on reforestation with the goal of reducing nearly 40,000 tons of CO2 from the environment. We hope other merchants follow suit and link product promotions to environmental awareness. The special edition ECO-Green COOLPIX will be available exclusively at Ritz Camera stores nationwide starting May 1, 2008 for an MSRP of $249.95. You can pre-order online with no tax and free shipping. Smile!
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