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Urban Sanitation Cleans Up Its Act

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Sanergy’s low-cost sanitation centers are the brainchild of two business school students and collect waste before processing it into electricity and fertilizer.

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Yoga. Music. Fillmore.

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Turning your down dog into gettin’ down on the dance floor doesn’t happen during most yoga sessions, but we were fortunate enough to stretch to the beat of a different drum underneath the dim chandeliers at San Francisco’s Fillmore music venue last weekend.

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Chicagoans Celebrate Their Smarts

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A nighttime event at the Museum of Science and Industry will commemorate the “greenest home in Chicago,” a fully functioning house on the museum grounds.

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Etsy’s How-Tuesday: Tuning Your Bike

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You can often catch the ecofabulous ladies on two wheels but keeping on top of our bike maintenance? Not quite as often. This five minute video is a great breakdown with easy steps!

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Jewelry Workshop with DLC Brooklyn

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One of the first workshops at the new Guilded sustainable design studio (the fabulous brainchild of Bahar Shahpar and Tara St. James), Susan Domelsmith of DLC Brooklyn will be offering tips and tricks on how to craft your own upcycled wares.

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NRDC’s Third Growing Green Awards Come to SF

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Thursday marks the third year for the National Resource Defense Council’s Growing Green Awards, and this year’s celebration will commemorate role models in food production, business, knowledge, and young leadership. Featured guests at the event at Yoshi’s San Francisco are to include Michael Pollan, Nicolette Niman, and NRDC trustee Laurie David.  Think live jazz and sustainable [...]

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Ecouterre to Host NY Eco Fashion Panel

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Fashion site Ecouterre will be hosting an evening event this Wednesday–”Why Eco Fashion Matters”–with designers, authors, and Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher.

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Recycled Fashions. Renewed Lives.

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Since 2005, the annual Discarded to Divine Gala event gives talented, aspiring designers the opportunity to showcase their innovative expertise by fabricating original masterpieces out of unusable clothing donations. The discarded garments that evolve into wearable works of art and exquisite home décor are auctioned off to benefit men, women and children overcoming poverty, homelessness and domestic [...]

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Kicking Ash at Convert

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Two Berkeley-based companies we like are combining efforts on Saturday, April 30, in the name of cleaning up your underthings (and, of course, the Earth).

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Winner Revealed for Cereplast’s “Make your Mark” Contest

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1500 design submissions, narrowed down to 200, 3 finalists and now 1.

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