Posts Tagged environment

Event: Gadgets & Gizmos Get You Drinks, Wednesday February 29, 2012 at Brother Jimmy’s in Union Square, NYC

Gadgets & Gizmos Get You Drinks E-Cycling Happy Hour at Brother Jimmy’s What: Don’t throwaway your throwback electronics! New York based electronics recycling program, Guzu, is encouraging you to go green with your gadgets by giving you an opportunity to let your old Blackberry, T-9 calculator or laptop buy you a drink! Bring in any old [...]

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800,000 Americans Tell Senate: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline

WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2012 (ENS) – Over the last 24 hours, environmental and progressive groups flooded the Senate with more than 800,000 messages opposing TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The 1,700-mile-long proposed pipeline would carry heavy bitumen oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta to refineries in Oklahoma and on the Texas [...]

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How Big Oil’s Back Room Dealing with the GOP Revived the Keystone XL

This is not what democracy looks like, to revise the chant embraced by Occupy Wall Street. After a popular movement rose up against the proposed Keystone XL project–over a thousand people were arrested at one protest outside the White House, and 12,000 people joined hands around it at another-president Barack Obama announced that he would delay [...]

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San Francisco Green Festival 10-year celebration 2011

‘“The coconut spread is to die for,” raved the elderly lady next to me as we admired the spread of non-dairy butters. Her crimson felt hat suited for a royal wedding slightly obstructed my view. I took her advice and slathered a knife full of the coconut spread on a raisin bagel. Next to butter in [...]

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Online Retailers Promote Cyber Monday

“Cyber Monday. Green Tuesday. Black Friday. Magenta Saturday. Chances are you won’t find any of these holidays on your calendar. Yet retailers are coming up with names for just about every day of the week during the holiday shopping season. “…………Nonprofit Green America is launching “Green Tuesday” this week to encourage people to buy gifts [...]

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LA’s Solar Power, Green Jobs Potential Largely Untapped

“World Bank financing has help put solar power systems on more than 300,000 homes and small businesses in Bangladesh. Working with its local partners, the World Bank’s International Development Association IDA’s Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Project (RERED), is aiming to boost that to more than 1 million with an additional $172 million credit facility. Imagine [...]

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The Most Important Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Reducing your carbon footprint is do-able; it’s about making changes in how you live your day-to-day life. Even small changes, like reducing the amount of driving you do, can make a huge impact in the environment. Yogi Times polled experts of all ages in the field of green living and sustainability to bring you some tips [...]

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Naturepedic Shows Award-Winning Baby & Kids Organic Mattresses and Bedding at L.A. Green Festival October 29-30

Contact: Sandra Marquardt, 301-592-0077 smarquardt@onthemarkpr.com Cleveland, Ohio (October 24, 2011) – Chagrin Falls, Ohio-based Naturepedic, the only baby and children’s bed and bedding company in the U.S. certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), is proudly exhibiting at the Green Festival in Los Angeles, CA, October 29-30. The company will display its award-winning certified [...]

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Hip-Hop Musical with an Environmental Twist to Perform at Los Angeles Green Festival

Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature Announces Live Performance Halloween Weekend Los Angeles, CA (October 20, 2011) — Pacha’s Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature, a hip-hop musical story about a little girl named Pacha who saves the environment with the help of the world’s plants and animals, will take to the stage Saturday, [...]

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GREEN FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY IN SAN FRANCISCO

CONTACT: SAEGERMEDIAGROUP, Inc. Katy Saeger katy@saegermediagroup.com 310.935.3883 SAN FRANCISCO – The nation’s premier green living event returns to San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center November 12-13, 2011. This year, Green Festival celebrates a ten-year milestone with over one million attendees in eight cities. This unique experience celebrates positive solutions working in our communities.  It’s where people [...]

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