When cycling around it’s always nice to have a little extra protection from the elements as well as those tough handlebars.
Vancouver based, Heidi the Artist creates fingerless gloves that enable you to transition easily from driving (or yoga class) to texting, applying lip gloss, or hitting the ATM. One glove’s cuff features a graphic element lifted from one of her pieces of artwork, in this instance, a tree.
The jersey fabric is sourced from easily renewable bamboo – fully biodegradable, antibacterial and odor resistant – to keep mother earth and you, cool. Ride in sustainable style. $25 US, only one available @ etsy.com
Seafood, and fish in particular, is often viewed as a healthy, low fat source of protein. It’s unfortunate that fraud at your local fish counter is an all-too-frequent industry practice. Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, today launched its new campaign to Stop Seafood Fraud at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
At the press briefing, Oceana and other experts explained how seafood fraud can come in many different forms – from mislabeling fish and falsifying documents to adding too much ice to packaging – and how it hurts our oceans, wallets and health. (more…)
As pervasive as digital is today, there are still those of us who love the look, touch and feel of paper. Just in time for summer exploring, here’s a Travel Journal to help keep those memories alive, and a tri-fold notefolio (below) that blends notebook, pockets and portfolio to keep you organized. (more…)
According to recent surveys by SustainAbility and GlobeScan, Unilever is now considered the global leader in industrial sustainability. Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational that makes a number of popular foods, beverages, cleaning agents and hygienic products.
This achievement is no doubt the result of the corporation’s November 2010 Sustainable Living Plan, which intends to bring 50 environmental, social and economic programs to fruition. Set to be achieved by 2020, some of these endeavors included halving the environmental cost of all Unilever products, extracting 100% of the company’s agricultural raw materials from sustainable sources and last, but certainly not least, improving the health and well being of a billion people around the globe.
You already may be enabling Unilever to help consumers (more…)
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