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Create An Elegant Fold-Up Bicycle Design That’s Functional and Sexy
03 September 2010 12:04 AM | No CommentsI often think about what really motivates people to embrace green alternatives. Whenever I ponder this question I invariably wonder why green marketers and advertisers don’t equate being sexy more often with being green. After all, they do it all the time for other kinds of products. For some green products it would be easy [...]
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Give Your Car A Gleaming Wash Without Using Water
01 September 2010 12:25 PM | No CommentsIn June, I bought a totally righteous Volkwsagen Jetta TDI. It’s fast, gets great gas mileage, handles extremely well on windy mountain roads, has ample storage capacity and cost me just over 25K, making it pretty reasonable for a family car. I love this car. To me, it represents the best kind of lazy environmentalist [...]
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Brita Climate Ride Takes on California
28 June 2010 12:06 PM | No CommentsEven though I was arguably the worst player in the country in Division One college football during my sophomore year season at the University of Pennsylvania, I still think of myself as an athlete. I’m not making this up. In the early 90s, the New York Times ranked every team in D-1 college football by [...]
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Create An Elegant Fold-Up Bicycle Design That’s Functional and Sexy
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Awesome Green Idea: Create Form-Fitted, Design-Forward Organic Cotton Underwear for Men and Women
Going green can be a very personal journey. At times, it can also be pretty lonely when you look around and wonder why it’s taking so long for the rest of the world to catch on and catch up. So it’s important to have a lot of support. And that’s why I love PACT organic [...] -
Cute Winter Boots for Women – Warm, Waterproof & Eco
Whether you’re tending the garden in NoCal, stomping Manhattan’s sidewalks, or meeting friends after a long day on the slopes, you’ll want to stay warm, dry, and comfortable. Oh yeah, and they better be the cutest winter boots we women have ever seen too. Rest assured, I have you covered in top eco style. Our [...] -
Best Mens Fleece Jackets and Tops for Fashionable Performancewear
Polar fleece — aka microfleece, aka micrafleece aka fleece — is an inherently eco-friendly fiber. Made from same material as Tupperware and bottle caps, fleece becomes fleece when the material, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), is heated up and manipulated. Polyester is also made from PET. But unlike polyester, fleece is plush, breathable, and uber warm. Here [...] -
Introducing Ecouterre: A new eco-fashion destination
I want to congratulate my friend Jill Fehrenbacher and her new team for the launch of Ecouterre, a website dedicated to covering the fast evolving world of eco-fashion. Jill founded the green design blog Inhabitat, right about the time I launched LazyEnvironmentalist.com, so we’ve been tracking each other’s progress for a while. When I had [...] -
Designer Maternity Dresses for the Green Mother-to-be
Sure, it was exciting (in an Alien-eqsue sort of way) to be growing another human being inside of me, but I found the most fascinating part of being pregnant to be my ever-morphing figure. As a woman who was always light on curves, I never quite tired of greeting that increasingly bodacious woman in the [...]
