Manufactured in Michigan from vintage reclaimed wood by designer Dale H. Campbell these limited edition chairs are featured at the Urban-Diversions retail store in Traverse, Michigan.
The ‘Marsh Grass’ chair (above) is constructed of sustainable walnut and cypress. The lounge chair seat and back are created from solid walnut planks and adjust with a simple movement. The artfully placed cypress spindles give the sense of viewing natural marsh grass.
The traditionally styled ‘Barn Beam’ lounge chair (above) is built from (more…)
This is part two of a 10-part series on how changing ones eating habits may be the most accessible and impactful way to improve the world.
Let’s begin by taking some mystery out of history: The original “organic food” paradigm consisted of ecologically-conscious farms that thrived on the rotation of various plant and animal species. These farms possessed deep respect for the land, water, and air, provided humane treatment to their animals, fair wages and a safe environment to their workers, and distributed their produce only to mouths within the local vicinity. These practices facilitated soil enrichment and natural forms of disease and pest control, prevented contamination of local and distant ecosystems, and reduced packaging and pollution by rejecting long-distance travel.
However, with demand for organic food growing like miles on a trucker’s odometer, much of the United States’ 20 billion dollar industry has been purchased by corporations like Coca-Cola, General Mills, Heinz, and M&M-Mars. With loyalties to royalties rather than to our environment or farm-workers, this transition has created a full circle in the realm of organic foods. (more…)
UPDATE: January 23, 2009
Three readers have been selected at random, and officially won — Congratulations to: Susan DeBourcy, First Place; Anna LeRoux, Second Place; and Tommy Johnson, Third Place! Many thanks to ZeroWater for partnering to offer such a great green giveaway, and also to everyone for participating. Stay tuned for our next Green Giveaway which will begin very soon. And hey, let’s all continue to do our best to conserve water — every drop counts.
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This is an awesome Giveaway, sponsored by ZeroWater. Three lucky readers will each receive a cool green prize, (applies to U.S. residents only). We’ve tested it, and now we use it all the time.
ZeroWater is a great way to filter your tap water — it removes 100% detectable dissolved solids, saves money by not buying bottled water, saves the earth by not adding empty plastic bottles to the landfill, makes your life easier by not schlepping bottled water into your home and having to recycle empties. (more info, here.) And hey, the TDS Meter (valued at $30) is included FREE with each ZeroWater Pitcher and is not reflected in the value of each prize:
1st PLACE prize value: $80.00
· ZeroWater Pitcher
· 2x Filters
· 2x ZeroWater Sports Bottles (right)
· TDS Meter
2ND PLACE prize value: $52.00
· ZeroWater Pitcher
· 1x Filter
· 1x Sports Bottle
· TDS Meter
3RD PLACE prize value: $40.00
· ZeroWater Pitcher
· 1x Filter
· TDS Meter
To enter: first visit zerowater.com. Then enter a comment on this post telling us what you do to conserve water.
It’s that simple.
Entries must be received by 1pm, EST on Friday, January 23, 2009.
Prize notification: via email — be sure to add the following address to your email address book: m at AlternativeConsumer.com.
Random Drawing takes place on January 23, 2009. Three lucky winners will be selected and notified by email. (add: m at AlternativeConsumer.com to your address book.) Winners need to reply to notification via email within 24 hours in order to claim their individual prize, otherwise their offer is null and void. The 3 lucky winners’ names will also be included on this post.
Thanks for reading The Alternative Consumer — start clicking and good luck! (one entry per person, of course.)
Related: Z-Pitcher from ZeroWater – (11.28.08)
High concept? Yes. Functional? Probably not so much. Are you a closet wood nymph or elfin wood-being longing to add a more natural carpet to your lavatory? 
This Moss carpet, by Swiss designer La Chanh Nguyen, may withstand the assault of your size ten flippers but will definitely fall victim to your toxic male body spray.
Also designed by Nguyen, and obviously inspired by the Chia Pet, the Kitchen Garden (at right), is at the least an interesting living sculpture. In an alternate universe, you can look for Rachel Ray to be hawking a full line of living kitchenware at your local Sam’s Club in the near future.
via: thetrendygirl
The great, global warming ‘denier’ is hanging up his spurs.
George Bush is heading back to the ranch to break out the brush cutters, chainsaw and bass rod – oil companies and defense contractors should start fast-tracking a purchase order for a top-of-the-line, cushy seat on their board of directors for the consummate ‘decider,’ and soon to be ex-President. Time for the cowboy to cash in those chips — he certainly earned them. The man created an energy policy right out of the Exxon Annual Report and has kissed enough Saudi Princes to need a prescription for both ChapStick and lip gloss. Not exactly a shining green legacy; (more…)
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