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Win a Signed Copy of Eco-Friendly Families - Great Green Giveaway

Printed on 100% recycled paper, here’s the perfect gift for you, your friends and your family. Author Helen Coronato is hosting a signed giveaway of her highly acclaimed book, Eco Friendly Families - a guide to green for toddlers to teens.
To Enter - Simply enter a comment on this post telling us why you’d like [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow Rolls in the Green

Welcome to our Guest Blogger from the West Coast, Katherine Butler.
You know how it is.  You’ve been green for years before it was cool.  You’ve been recycling since you had to drive it to a different county, you’ve sent your allowance off to the Sierra Club, and you’ve sighed over signs stuck in the middle [...]

lance armstrong to promote Clear2O

Lance Armstrong is heading back to the Pyrenees for another assault on the Tour De France and it looks like he’ll now be forgoing bottled water on those tortuous mountain climbs.  Lance has just signed on as the spokesman for Applica Consumer Product’s Clear2O water filtration brand and the “Drink Clean and Go Green” TV [...]

an altCon eco media minute

Starting today, 3-Day All Points West Music Fest with green overtones hits NY Harbor.
NRDC believes in a “bold new approach to clean energy — including plug-in hybrids, electric cars, and a cleaner power grid — that would allow Americans to drive at the equivalent of $1 per gallon.”  Check out NRDC’s ad in the Washington [...]

hung out to dry - my retro eco routine

Want to give a practical, little green gift to a friend, or maybe yourself?  Think: clothesline. As ridiculous as it sounds, it may change your outlook on life.  How?  Hanging laundry out to dry will bring you more in touch with the weather, the grass, the birds and the bees.

The hub went all out and [...]

Jack Johnson’s doing it All At Once

Ya gotta love a guy who’s a musician, singer-songwriter, surfer and surf film buff, as well as a serious advocate for cleaning up our collective environment.  You can feel the hypnotic, ocean’s waves from Hawaiian-born, Jack Johnson’s laid back vibe.

What sets his band’s Green Tour apart from any other right now is the Village Green [...]

flight of the conchords - eco mousepad

Upgrade from that tattered Shania Twain mousepad you’ve been scrolling over for the last 10 years to this nifty recycled rubber mousepad featuring the visages of HBO mega-stars, Jemaine and Bret, the frontmen for digi-folk band, Flight of the Conchords.
$9.99 @ hbo.com

living skyscraper grows green acres

What’s on the green horizon?
Who needs 20 acres and a mule to till the soil and grow some grub? Go vertical, not horizontal… as Dickson Despommier a guest on Thursday night’s Colbert Report, suggests.
Simply put, a modern skyscraper gets outfitted with serious plantings and a sophisticated gray water system to provide irrigation. A great [...]

Rogan Gregory - bright light on big universe

This calls for time off for good behavior. Rogan’s in the house that Barney built — for a limited time only, Rogan Gregory’s Rogan for Target line will be featured in Barneys NY. Today through Sunday you’ll be treated to first dibs on a sexy surfin’ safari collection of over 60 styles, many [...]

9 signs you may not be eco friendly

Ed Begley Jr. has your picture on his dart board.
You get weekly gardening advice from Dow Chemical.
The water level of Lake Meade rises 4 inches when your lawn sprinklers turn off.
You spend more than 2 hours a day writing letters to the editor bemoaning the loss of the plastic shopping bag.
You’ve made a 3o’ tall [...]

altCon eco media minute

Hey, what’s our Seamus doing in that ad? check out Redford’s The Green (Tuesday’s @ 9p-12m)
We’ll be lurking around this event — GoGreenExpo - NY Hilton - Sat & Sun 4/26 & 27
UW-Madison Students Earn Serious Seed Capital for Supermarket Rooftop Gardening - (click on SKY VEGETABLES, left column, third link down)
Swap-O-Ramarama at NYU [...]

loomstate and barneys - recycle t’s

A perfect storm of the green and the greenish came together at Barneys last night. The mighty Sundance Channel, eco-friendly clothing company Loomstate and fashion supermarket to the stars — Barneys, co-sponsored an event that attracted an eclectic assemblage of the fashion elite, eco-fashion wannabes, the certifiably green and an assortment of self-promoters [...]