So, you participated in Earth Hour and you went to an Earth Day celebration. Perhaps you’ve tried taking the bus or bringing your own bags to the grocery store, or maybe you’ve started recycling. And that is GREAT! What a wonderful start, or addition to your already eco-friendly lifestyle! Whether you’re an eco-newbie or an…
Category Archives: Activism
Bringing It Home: Swami Baby Giveaway
A giveaway courtesy of Swami Baby is a great way to end our week-long giveaway carnival, if you will, in celebration of Earth Day. What exactly is Swami Baby? Katie Holley, the founder and owner of this creative kiddo-centric business, is probably the best person to answer that question. In her own words: Swami Baby is…
A New Perspective: Through Endangered Eyes Giveaway
One thing we don’t often talk about on this site is the correlation between climate change and endangered species, and specifically, what we can do to help ensure the myriad species who also currently call this planet “home” remain here for generations to come. What better way to teach future generations that all creatures great…
Clean Green: Seventh Generation Giveaway
Now that Earth Day and the spring season have officially arrived, many Americans are in their eco-conscious cleaning modes, and while spring cleaning is necessary if not a little exciting (downsizing! de-cluttering! finding everything you once thought was lost forever!), the very products used to clean and protect your living space from germs could be…
Minimizing Your Plastic Footprint: Glass Dharma Giveaway
Keeping the Earth Week fun moving right along, today as promised we have more great green products for you to win, more Earth Day tips, and bonus links to keep you clicking green all week long. David Leonhardt, a glassblower and the founder of Glass Dharma, the original hand-made glass drinking straw, created his own…
Let’s Get It Started In Here: The Naked Binder Giveaway
Most of you have probably heard by now that Earth Day is just around the proverbial corner, slated for this upcoming Wednesday, April 22nd. I’m sure you’ve seen television spots, heard radio announcements, and read other green sites preparing to embrace the day, and the entire week, with wide open hearts and minds, in the…
Recycled Note Of The Week: Purple For Maddie
Today is little Maddie’s funeral, and in remembrance her parents have asked everyone to sport a bit of purple for the day, in memory of a beautiful little girl who left this world too soon, but left it brighter, warmer. For this week’s Recycled Note Of The Week I wanted to sport a bit of…
Around The Greenosphere: Weekly Link Roundup
Here are some of our favorite posts from around the greenosphere this week, to help start your weekend a bit greener. Monday Inhabitat announced that MIO will be releasing a new green outdoor line for Target, set to be available in stores April 12th. The product assortment includes eight outdoor items made from recycled and…
Fighting Climate Change With Chocolate: Going Green Never Tasted So Sweet
It’s probably pretty safe to say that there are more people on this planet eating chocolate, than fighting climate change. Sad but true. A more encouraging statement would be that there are definitely a lot of people out there that want to do more of both. Although there are many brands of organic and fair…
Ursa Freedom Project
To many of us, poaching is an unfamiliar term and practice. It happens on African savannahs and involves clandestine ivory sales. Unfortunately, the face of poaching is a very real and ugly one in more places than we care to think about. I recently joined a viral action network whose goal is to raise awareness…
