10:10 Wants You to Cut Your Emissions by 10% in 2010
We have all asked, or been asked to answer, that elusive question. “What can I do about climate change?” Although it’s easy to feel powerless beside large corporations and nations that seem hellbent…
Cheese, I don’t Need You
On a usual Friday night after work, I would stop by Murray’s Cheese in Grand Central Station, pick up a few different wedges and a baguette at the bread shop. A cheese platter…
The Dalai Lama Says: Take a Break From Technology
“I think technology may have some benefits for a smart brain, but no capacity to produce compassion,” Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama told about 12,000 devoted fans at the opening session of…
NYC’s largest green roof – a post office park.
They’re popping up all over these days, and are a great way to reduce the carbon footprint of any given building. The new green roof atop the Morgan mail processing facility is so…
The Age of Stupid
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?” The year is 2055 and “The Archivist” (played…
Let’s Celebrate PARK(ing) Day
For one day, a few of those rectangular spaces marked in white, usually reserved for clunkers, were temporarily reclaimed for people. On September 18, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day,…
NY Fashion Week: The GreenShows
For two days, during the height of New York Fashion Week, The King of Greene Street space in SoHo was taken over by ecologically conscious fashion. The GreenShows featured runway shows by seven…
Eating-in for Healthy School Lunches
You can raise your kids on the most conscious diet of local, farm-fresh, organic food, and find that once they start school, all your efforts are instantly undercut. Unless you happen to live…
Interview with Alabama Chanin’s Natalie Chanin
After spending twenty years abroad abroad, traveling, living and working as a costume designer, Natalie Chanin returned to her hometown Florence, Alabama with the intention of producing a short documentary focused on stories…
Right Brain Terrain: Alternative Motivational Posters
I started my academic career as an International Student at a South Florida Community College, which meant I spent a lot of time in various waiting rooms, waiting to speak to various counselors…
Project M: Pizza Farm
Pick a significant cause, then conceive and create a single design project that will be of lasting value in a rural community. That was the brief given to the group of nine young…
The Waterpod Project – A Self-sustaining Ecosystem on the Manhattan Waterfront
With resources on land becoming scarcer by the day, and sea levels rising, the idea that we may one day have to adapt to life on the sea may not be so far…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
