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Catch the buzz – our latest green stimulus package for your eyes, ears and mind:

  • With gratitude and thanks — we’re tickled pink to be included in Amy Cook’s roundup of 50 Fabulous Blogs for Green Fashionistas.
  • First, Aqua Man (Adrian Grenier of Entourage and Alter Eco) dives in to help save Bluefin Tuna: oceana.org.  Now Discovery helps raise awareness to help protect sharks from humans (role reversal, right?) during Discovery’s Shark Week – beginning tonight, Sunday at 9pm, ET/PT.  We need better policies to protect sharks from overfishing and the practice of shark finning.  Discover more and pledge support @ oceana.org
  • 350.0rg has a small pool of money to support your local climate solutions projects for 10/10/10.  Submit your plan by August 7th, get enough people to vote on it, and you could receive a grant of $1000 USD to make it happen.  learn more @ 350.0rg.
  • Check out Paul Greenberg’s new book, Four Fish, The Future of the Last Wild Food.  As Sam Sifton of the NY Times reports:…”an important and stimulating new book which takes as its subject the global fisheries market and the relationship humans have with tuna, cod, sea bass and salmon. Giant bluefin tuna have been overharvested here and abroad as they travel north and south, east and west, heedless of international borders or treaties, their population hovering on the brink of total collapse.”  Published by Penguin, ($25.95)
  • This message is bought to you straight from our music and jeans loving pals at Reco Jeans…Calling all NYC DJs!  In an effort to bring you a monthly giveaway/event reco jeans®, the true recycled denim brand is hosting a DJ Competition! They base their eco-fashions on the recycling of fabrics to create an authentic material for your jeans. Uniquely similar to how a DJ takes bits and pieces from music and manipulates it into a tapestry of original soundscapezzzz!  RULES:
    1. Visit Reco’s Facebook Fan Page 2. Post a link of your DJing skills 3. Have your friends “Like” your link 4. Top 5 “Likes” will be selected PRIZES:
    Grand Prize – $500 Gift Card from Sam Ash. Runner ups – Free pair of reco jeans® The join us @ Sapphire Lounge.  (The 1st venue in NY Lower East Side to have a legal dance floor) on August 19th 2010 when the top 5 will spin live.  Sincerely, The reco jeans® Team