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Top Ten Sustainable Design Questions and Considerations
If you are just getting into the green design business, or want to incorporate green design elements in your decor, or even if you know a thing or two about sustainable design already, this list will assist you. 1. Is the product still “green” if it is shipped from across the world?Minimal Harm Members: Update and Information!
Hi everyone! I just wanted to send out a message to the group about updates for the next 2 months. As some of you may know, I am leaving New Zealand, where I have been on exchange this year, in a week.The Scoop on Fair Trade
"Before you've finished your breakfast this morning, you'll have relied on half the world"
- Martin Luther King
An interesting thought. And a depressing one, when you realise that those people you've relied on for your coffee and muesli are almost certainly being exploited and oppressed by the unfair power balance in world trade.
- from maketradefair.com
Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade.
Greening Your Home - the basics part 1: general home
Teamsugar user charlesmaris recently requested links to comprehensive information sources for "making a home more eco-friendly". This is a pretty huge area where everyday people can make a difference, so I thought I'd try and post some of the easiest and least expensive ways one could "green their home". This is a great starting point for anyone who wants to take those first steps and be able to see the results of their eco-friendly efforts immediately in their home life.
CFLs - Now in Full Spectrum!
This is really exciting news for me since I find it hard to get anything done in Winter when the light is much more blue than the beautiful Summer sun. In Vancouver it is often overcast and much too grey outside for it to be very bright indoors. I haven't seen a full spectrum bulb in fluorescent before!
Green Cleaning Recipes
I recently posted the "the Green Clean" which had a few recipes and such for cleaning your home without using a lot of harsh chemicals. Here are a few more recipes and a list of some of my favorite store-bought cleaning supplies for things I cannot easily make: These are some samples of recipes from Make your own Cosmetics 1) Don't Hate Me Travel Spritz This easy to make formula smells great and will uplift and soften the mood of even the most irritable travel companion. This product is not to be used on the skin as a toner or face or body spritzer.Zero Emission Fuel-Cell Buses for 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Vancouver's doing it's part to cut down on emissions in time for the increased traffic, visitor population and people moving to the city for the 2010 Winter Olympics. 20 Hydrogen buses will be put on the streets...
What's the deal?
Green Company Highlight: Ecopapers, tree-free journals and more!
Ecopapers makes journals, albums, notebooks and more out of sustainable materials such as banana fiber, by-products of coffee and tobacco industries...
A whole lot about the company and their paper-making processes can be viewed here.
HERE is a video about them and sustainability generally.
Wine: Cork or Screw Top? Cork: the environmental choice
Not exactly new news, but just a reminder:
I know screw-top (or the stuff that comes in a box) wine is often cheaper than the cork variety, but please keep a few things in mind when making your purchasing decision:
1) cork is made from the bark of a tree and is sustainable. Cork trees can be used again and again this way.
2) Cork tree farmers are losing a lot of money due to the 20% increase in wine stoppers made of plastic and metal.
Greening Your Dorm Room
Its almost time for students to move into their college dorms again! Since dorm rooms are so temporary, what can you do that is both economically smart yet green at the same time?
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