Articles tagged “Green Community”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The Ultimate Central Park Staycation: 20 Low Impact/High Excitement Ways to Explore the Big Apple's Backyard By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 20 2009 America's most visited city park is a green adventure waiting to happen. + READ MORE

Back to the Sustainable Future: Taking Two Steps Back to Jump Ten Steps Forward By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Oct 20 2009 Some things were done greener in the past. + READ MORE

Sites We Love: EcoFabulous for Sexy, Sustainable Style By Blythe Copeland IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 20 2009 Get the scoop on all the latest in fashion, beauty, home, and travel with EcoFabulous. + READ MORE

The Yogini's 10-Step Plan to Reversing Climate Change By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Oct 19 2009 Yoga, when it comes down to it, and even it's most literal translation of the word from Sanskrit, is about harmonizing the body, mind and breath so that we can eventually awaken one day into a more conscious, liberated and beneficial human beings. So that when we are off of the mat, we can make a positive difference in the community and world at large. + READ MORE

What's Wrong With Us? Can We Fix It in Time to Survive? By Mickey Z. IN Work & Connect Oct 16 2009 The Elvis of academia has a way of inspiring green action. + READ MORE

Split Estate Airs Saturday, Get Involved Now with 1Sky's Call to Climate Action By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 14 2009 Join the 1Sky campaign to ensure a sustainable economic recovery and a healthy future for the planet and for us. Watching Split Estate will motivate you to act for a clean energy future; here's how you can get started. + READ MORE

How to Use the iPhone for Global Green Domination, Literally By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Oct 13 2009 Augmented reality iPhone and Android apps are getting ever more amazing for green issues. the apps are getting more and more amazing, especially when it comes to using them to promote sustainable hotspots. Enter Wikitude...and you! + READ MORE

How to Turn Your Kids Into the Ultimate Green Team By Marye Audet IN Home & Garden Oct 12 2009 Building strong families is part of building strong community. Allowing your child to share your life and giving him chores to do builds confidence and makes him feel needed. Raising children is simple but we make it complicated. + READ MORE

Don't Host a Lame Rally: 5 Ways to Organize for a Meaningful International Day of Climate Action on October 24 By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Oct 9 2009 The fate of the planet lies in the hands of governments when they gather in Copenhagen to talk climate change in December. Some view that as an exaggeration, and in the eyes of others, it's quite literally true. Start organizing today for the International Day of Climate Action on October 24 to make sure Copenhagen has an impact: make sure your government represents the voices of its concerned citizens. + READ MORE

A Tree Falls in Queens: What Does it Mean When a 600-Year-Old Great White Oak Decides to Rot? By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 8 2009 A landmark tree has been cut down in New York City. + READ MORE

Urban Foraging - Fall Feasts In City Streets! (Slideshow) POSTED IN Games Quizzes Oct 7 2009 Urban foraging is a great way to accomplish three things. First, you find free food and keep your wallet a little more padded. Second, it makes you more familiar with not only the fruits and vegetables that nourish you, but also makes you more familiar with your city. + VIEW SLIDESHOW

Local Flowers, Reused Styrofoam, Any Old Candlestick = A Classy Flower Arrangment By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Oct 7 2009 Get creative with your home-decorating skills and in just minutes, you can have these lovely candlestick crafts. Inspired by Beekman Farm, they can brighten up your next dinner party. + READ MORE

Beekman Farm: About the Farmers By Team Planet Green IN Features Oct 7 2009 Bios of the key players in the docu-series Beekman Farm, which takes two New Yorkers and transplants them to live the farm life upstate. Here, a little history of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge, your hosts in this funny eco-adventure. + READ MORE

Meet Farmer John By Team Planet Green IN Oct 7 2009 John Hall spent his youth on dairy farms in and around Sharon Springs, New York. He moved away in his twenties but returned 11 years ago. Since then, he has been working on farms, spending most of his time taking... + READ MORE

Meet the Beekman "Farmers" Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge By Team Planet Green IN Oct 7 2009 Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge are not your average couple. They have transplanted themselves from New York City to Beekman Farm in upstate New York, where they are raising 80 goats, two pigs, a dozen chickens and a narcissistic... + READ MORE

The Beekman Experience: About the Farm By Team Planet Green IN Features Oct 7 2009 Beekman Farm takes two New Yorkers that you wouldn't expect to see wrangling pigs with their own hands, yet they are doing just that--all in the time of reviving an upstate farm estate and creating an organic lifestyle brand. + READ MORE

Know the Show: The Fabulous Beekman Boys By Team Planet Green IN Oct 7 2009 What do you get when you combine a former Vice President of Martha Stewart Living, a drag queen turned ad exec and New York Times bestselling author, an estate and farm in upstate New York, a few quirky neighbors and... + READ MORE

Explore Beekman Farm By Team Planet Green IN Oct 7 2009 It took two years, from 1802 to 1804, to build Beekman Mansion. At that time, the town of Sharon Springs was only a few years old but the numerous sulfur, magnesium, and chalybeate mineral springs—along with its proximity to Albany... + READ MORE

Why are Green Companies Ditching the Chamber of Commerce? By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Oct 7 2009 The US Chamber of Commerce is the largest not-for-profit business organization in the world. It represents over 3 million companies. It's arguably the most powerful lobbying group in the nation. And it's doing every thing it can to stop climate legislation. + READ MORE

Make Traveling Meaningful with Reality Tours from Global Exchange By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 6 2009 We write often about how to make your travels greener, but even if you do everything to reduce your carbon footprint, are you still getting a dose of the bigger world while on your expeditions? It's one thing to tour green hotspots in cities like London, and another to really see the world in a green way. + READ MORE