Brand Spotlight: Ursa Major
In our One DegreeTV piece Essential Oils vs Mainstream Synthetics, Lunaroma’s Leila Bringas explains how chemical-intensive products are not only confusing our senses but also posing health risks. We’re happy to…
11.10.10
11.08.10
Brands: Levi Strauss’s Water-saving Jeans
Comfort comes at a price. A typical pair of jeans, for example, is washed up to ten times to give it its ‘broken in’ appearance and feel. That’s roughly 42 liters of water per pair…
11.05.10
When Holiday Rituals Need Tweaking
Holidays are, by their nature, not great…for nature. It’s a time for travel, consuming more than we do otherwise and celebrating traditions that mostly originated before a modern eco-aesthetic. And we love them! But can we tweak…
11.04.10
VT Made – PowderJet Snowboards
“Hand built in the backwoods of Vermont…” PowderJet boards are constructed using only locally sourced, sustainably harvested woods, and non-toxic adhesives. Also, no metal edges, keeping the focus on powder. Sounds good to us.
Inspiration: Laurent Laveder’s ‘Moon Games’
VPR‘s Jane Lindholm turned us on to these images from Laurent Laveder, featured on the NPR blog ‘The Picture Show.’ Laveder, a landscape astrophotographer and astronomy journalist, has provided images…
11.03.10
SF Bans The Happy Meal Toy?
Stalinist plot to deprive kids of the perks of eating fast food? Or a sensible move to minimize dust-collecting landfill fodder? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to ban toy giveaways in meals…
