freecycling + recycling + purging + give your stuff away day

The artist William Morris said, don’t have anything in your house you can’t use or isn’t beautiful. And we all know we’re a bit guilty of both, so I share some awesome ideas for the new season. Forget spring cleaning and think fall exchanging!!! September 25 is GIVE YOUR STUFF AWAY DAY – which is [...]

Plastic bottles + Plastiki + Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch

I’ve been meaning to write about this appalling mass of plastic detritus and garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean. It’s the size of TEXAS – and made mostly of our wasted, useless plastic bottles. So this guy David de Rothschild has made a boat out of 12,000 plastic water bottles and will sail 12,000 [...]

Green Enough Green Enough

2 things. 1 good. 1 not sure. first an eco-centric search engine by matt + jen in long beach CA who found me on twitter. yay for you + me. 2 the use/overuse of green as a marketing thing. it’s almost a cliche. so beware of those who are using green purely for the old [...]

Environmental Excellence

My new Tweetie gal Desiree O has an AWESOME blog of ideas and links to incredible sites. I’ll probably borrow (ok pilfer!!) a few to post here at a later date, but for now check this grrrl out! http://sttnrevolution.blogspot.com/

Reduce Reuse Recycle

This is incredibly cool. Some graphic designers in Holland came up with the ecofont.  It’s got little bitty holes like Dutch cheese and uses 20% less ink when you print. See, believe and even download@  ecofont