With summer just around the bend and school on its way out, many of you are in the midst of planning vacations to distant lands. Before you rendezvous with the travel agent, check out Kenny Lorimer’s Code Green: Experiences of A Lifetime. Its an eye opening guide to travel in the twenty first century with an emphasis on the positive but lighter footprint one can leave behind and the unforgettable experiences one can bring home.
From Romania to Russia, Australia to Antarctica, this book from Lonely Planet suggests nearly 100 wild adventures with a mind towards cultural exposure, positive economic benefits for local communities and environmental sustainability. There's also ...
June’s Read of the Month: Code Green
Posted on May 26th, 2008
With summer just around the bend and school on its way out, many of you are in the midst of planning vacations to distant lands. Before you rendezvous with the travel agent, check out Kenny Lorimer’s Code Green: Experiences of A Lifetime. Its an eye opening guide to travel in the twenty first century with an emphasis on the positive but lighter footprint one can leave behind and the unforgettable experiences one can bring home.
From Romania to Russia, Australia to Antarctica, this book from Lonely Planet suggests nearly 100 wild adventures with a mind towards cultural exposure, positive economic benefits for local communities and environmental sustainability. There's also ...
May’s Read of the Month: Go Green, Get Rich
Posted on April 28th, 2008
Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. In his latest book, Go Green, Get Rich: How to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying, Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.
Bach coined the term, The Latte Factor®, which is based on the simple ...
April’s Read of the Month: Organic Spa Magazine
Posted on March 28th, 2008
While it might not yet be time to flash newly painted toes in flip flops, spring is definitely the time to shake off that sluggishness of winter, and revitalize yourself with a read to nourish yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and environmentally! Organic Spa does just the trick, with holistic articles that focus on sustainability for both you and the planet.
A new addition to magazine stands just last year, Organic Spa has been rated as one of the Top 30 Most Notable Launches of 2007 by MrMagazine.
With spa and wellness articles featuring an environmentally friendly spa that will inevitably elicit drool, Organic Spa offers great ideas for weekend getaways, and finds wonderful petroleum ...
March’s Book of the Month: The Ethical Gourmet
Posted on February 27th, 2008
The Ethical Gourmet: How to Enjoy Great Food That Is Humanely Raised, Sustainable, Nonendangered, and That Replenishes the Earth by Jay Weinstein is a great hybrid of a cookbook and a guide to eating sustainably, offering an incredibly comprehensive primer on the politics and environmental issues behind our food.
Weinstein begins with an introduction to the organic, sustainable, and local kitchen, and eases into the politics of our food production and the ecological concerns of our current model. Making great use of statistics, Weinstein points out that to make one kilo of potatoes takes 500 litres of water, where wheat requires 900 litres, corn 1,400 litres, rice 1,910 litres, and producing one ...
February’s Book of the Month
Posted on January 31st, 2008
So you’ve heard about all the bad stuff happening with our planet today - the melting of the icecaps, the greenhouse gas emissions, the fish genes injected in our tomatoes blah, blah, blah, but what about the good stuff? Believe it or not, there are many exciting advances taking place as we speak and people working hard towards positive and effective environmental change. In The Geography of Hope: A Tour of The World We Need, Chris Turner sheds some light on these changes, taking us trekking across the globe, seeking out what’s old, new, borrowed and green on our planet today and many emerging breakthroughs to look forward to. ...
January’s Book of the Month
Posted on December 26th, 2007
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
This site is dedicated to sharing small ways we can make a big impact on the Environment, but in The World Without Us, Alan Weisman explores the biggest impact we could make – by leaving the planet altogether. Yep. What would happen to the planet if it was suddenly rid of our parasitic presence? Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists –Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if ...
This site is dedicated to sharing small ways we can make a big impact on the Environment, but in The World Without Us, Alan Weisman explores the biggest impact we could make – by leaving the planet altogether. Yep. What would happen to the planet if it was suddenly rid of our parasitic presence? Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists –Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if ...
November’s Book of the Month
Posted on October 31st, 2007
A Consumer's Dictionary Of Cosmetic Ingredients: Complete Information About the Harmful and Desirable Ingredients in Cosmetics and Cosmeceuticals By Ruth Winter
Confused by all those unpronounceable ingredients on the label of your products (Try saying 2-t-Butylcyclohexyloxybutanol 5 times fast!)? You’d be amazed what’s really in your shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, hair dye, lipstick and the like. This book should be a part of everyone’s reference section! Ruth Winter has created an incredible resource- it’s easy to use and incredibly informative. The book reads like any dictionary. Simply look up the ingredient- from natural ingredients like oils or essential oils, ...
Confused by all those unpronounceable ingredients on the label of your products (Try saying 2-t-Butylcyclohexyloxybutanol 5 times fast!)? You’d be amazed what’s really in your shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, hair dye, lipstick and the like. This book should be a part of everyone’s reference section! Ruth Winter has created an incredible resource- it’s easy to use and incredibly informative. The book reads like any dictionary. Simply look up the ingredient- from natural ingredients like oils or essential oils, ...
October’s Book of the Month
Posted on September 20th, 2007
We love this book so much it inspired us to make vinegar, in all of its inexpensive, easy-to-find, all natural glory our product of the month. You probably have a bottle of white vinegar collecting dust in your cupboard waiting for Easter to roll around again, so break it out of hiding and dig in to Melodie Moore’s wonderful Vim & Vinegar.
Vim & Vinegar is a collection of recipes for the entire home: use vinegar in the kitchen to revive wilted vegetables and to send kitchen odors running. Use vinegar in the bathroom to polish fixtures or to condition your hair. Vinegar ...
September’s Book of the Month
Posted on August 15th, 2007
Plenty Magazine
September's book-of-the-month isn't exactly a book, but it is recommended green-themed reading (without the 300 page commitment). Plenty magazine is our new favorite periodical to bring on planes and buses and to talk about later. Each shiny issue is full of interesting articles about the things we're into, such as food, home, design, architecture, cars, clothing, travel, and leisure, while keeping the environment firmly in focus.
The August/September issue features articles ranging from surfing to protecting endangered species, with lots of additional goodies in between. We love all the facts and tips we pick up in each issue and have bought more than ...
September's book-of-the-month isn't exactly a book, but it is recommended green-themed reading (without the 300 page commitment). Plenty magazine is our new favorite periodical to bring on planes and buses and to talk about later. Each shiny issue is full of interesting articles about the things we're into, such as food, home, design, architecture, cars, clothing, travel, and leisure, while keeping the environment firmly in focus.
The August/September issue features articles ranging from surfing to protecting endangered species, with lots of additional goodies in between. We love all the facts and tips we pick up in each issue and have bought more than ...
August’s Book of the Month
Posted on July 1st, 2007
The Ecoholic by Adria Vasil
Adria Vasil, the “ecoholic” writes a popular column in Toronto’s weekly NOW Magazine. She makes a living by answering reader’s questions, however strange they may be, about how to live a more eco-friendly life. Her new book Ecoholic: Your guide to the most environmentally friendly information, products and services in Canada serves her tips straight up. She’s not afraid to tell the truth about all the harmful toxins in our daily products and lives, and she’s able to tell it like it is in a charismatic, yet scientifically informed way. She’s got a hint of hippie in her, but her book ...
Adria Vasil, the “ecoholic” writes a popular column in Toronto’s weekly NOW Magazine. She makes a living by answering reader’s questions, however strange they may be, about how to live a more eco-friendly life. Her new book Ecoholic: Your guide to the most environmentally friendly information, products and services in Canada serves her tips straight up. She’s not afraid to tell the truth about all the harmful toxins in our daily products and lives, and she’s able to tell it like it is in a charismatic, yet scientifically informed way. She’s got a hint of hippie in her, but her book ...
