The Price is Green: Beloved Game Show Gets Active for Earth Day
No commentsEarth Day is coming! Only two more days away, it’s almost here! More news from the eco-front: things are getting greener up at CBS studios in Los Angeles, where the classic game show The Price is Right! will be getting an eco-friendly makeover for Wednesday’s episode.
In observance of Earth Day, Wednesday’s episode of the [...]
Friday Link Round-Up: 04/03/09
1 comment so farBeing eco-friendly is wildly fashionable, as demonstrated by Pittsburgh teens. [Pittsburgh Live]
Speaking of fashion, ever-fashionable Corey Feldman is producing an event for global greenitude! [Ecorazzi]
Disposable bag waste is an ecological problem, not a class problem. [Washington Post]
Who loves reusable bags? Eva Longoria Parker loves reusable bags! [Earth 911]
Massachusetts suburbs get a recycling program makeover. [Leominster [...]
Tags: activism, Canada, celebrities, conservation, Earth Day, fashion, fun, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, profit, recycling, reusable bags
Going Green to Get Green with the CW
2 comments so farThe CW: a dangerous television station indeed, as it is home to a wide variety of hopelessly addicting shows. Luckily for the environment, the station has decided to use its hypnotic powers for something productive. With their Green Your World contest, you can tell the CW how you would make your neighborhood greener and earn [...]
More Ski Towns Join the Telluride Challenge
No commentsIsn’t it exciting when towns actually get positive and proactive about eco-awareness? We’ve reported a couple of times before on the friendly ski town reusable bag competition going on between Telluride and Aspen, but things over there just keep getting better. According to Vail Daily, three more towns have joined the challenge to save the [...]
Time Magazine’s Top Ten Offbeat Environmental Ideas
No commentsIn our era of eco-awareness, it seems like everyone’s trying to make a difference through some new innovation or way of conservation. Of course, some innovations are more feasible than others, and Time Magazine has collected some of the most, well, questionable entries in the metaphorical arms race for sustainability.
Europeans use toilet paper with [...]
A Home For Plastic Bags, and Plastic Bags For a Home
No commentsCongratulations to 12-year-old Max Wallack — he can now claim the distinct honor of having won PBS Kids Design Squad’s “Trash to Treasure” competition, by giving plastic bags and packing peanuts a worthwhile new purpose.
So just what was the brilliant idea Max came up with? Wallack invented a “Home Dome,” a structure made of plastic [...]
Friday Link Round-Up: 10/31/08
No commentsA frightful thought for Halloween: our plastics are not getting recycled! [Eco Women]
Speaking of Halloween, check out Danny Seo’s green Halloween tips. [Ecorazzi]
That said, the AMA Conference took care of almost a ton. [Country Standard Time]
Midhurst makes a bid to go disposable-bagless. [Chichester Observer]
MRM recycling is catching on across the country. [Good Clean Tech]
Reminder: reusable [...]
Halloween Costumes to Make Your Friends Green With Envy
No commentsThere are a lot of articles on the internet right now regarding Halloween costumes — not surprising, really, considering it’s just a few short days away — but one that really caught my interest was from the blog EarthFirst. What sets it apart is its hyperspecificity: not just any costumes, but green costumes. Some were [...]
Halloween Brings Out the Crafty
No commentsObviously there are holidays year-round, but none seem to require decoration so much as those in the fall and winter months (perhaps for lack of better things to do when holed up inside with the heater on), and it all starts with Halloween. There are pumpkins to carve, bowls of candy to fill, and colored [...]
Friday Link Round-Up: 10/17/08
No commentsFresh ‘n Easy introduces the 99-cent canvas bag. They’re opening up two new locations in San Diego, muy exciting! [MarketWatch]
Meanwhile, two enterprising mothers are introducing an innovative reusable bag of their own. [Hebden Bridge Today]
Becoming LEED-certified is a beautiful thing. Go Giant Eagle! [MarketWatch]
Dallas does not care about disposable plastic bags. [Dallas News]
News Item: plastic [...]
Tags: environmental policy, fun, profit, recycling, reusable bags, shopping
