How To Green Your Kid...Dumbo, Brooklyn Style

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Sustainable Sports Equipment: Just In Time For The Super Bowl

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Getting Students Interested and Involved in a Sustainable Future

Today's radio show is two-fold. Firstly, we talk about creating a sustainable future with kid-power. By investing in high school students and college students and empowering them with tools like mentors, technical support, and financial resources, students are invisioning and realizing socially responsible ventures. Our other guest, is a Lazy E regular who is bringing the latest and greatest in green gossip.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:
Michael Del Ponte - Co-founder and CEO of Conscious Lifestyle, a nonprofit organization that empowers students and schools to be more socially responsible, whose deadline to apply for a social venture grant is due February 15th, 2008.

Michael d'Estries - Co-founder and Editor of Ecorazzi.com, a green gossip website bringing us that good eco-buzz.

Youth with great green ideas doing BIG things:

Teens for Safe Cosmetics a coalition led by young women raising awareness about potentially harmful ingredients in beauty and daily use products that may be linked to cancer, reproductive harm and other health risks.

Do Something - A supreme organization hooking kids up with a chance to make a difference, and win the Brick Awards.

Youth Venture Helping teams of young people start new youth-led organizations.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th RADIO SHOW

Giving Green to Go Green

Today's show spotlights some of the best green gifts from one of our favorite magazines, Dwell. But what do you get for that person on your list who has everything? Our second guest from Conservation International gives us some great alternative gift ideas that will neither fit under a Christmas tree nor a Menorah, but might help save species.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Michael Cannell - Editorial Director at Dwell.com, whose online content is above and beyond and has created a fantastic eco-gift list.

Rod Mast - Vice President of Conservation International Sojourns Program, offering an alternative to traditional gifts this holiday season: conservation and species survival. Check out these cool gift ideas.

Topics Discussed Today:

Can Wind Power Find Its Footing in the Deep? - Wall Street Journal article about offshore wind turbines off the Scottish Coast.

Lighting the Rockefeller Center Tree - When the 30,000 energy-efficient lights were turned on, it marked the official start of the holiday season in New York City.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Style For Your Babe and Your Home

Today we are talking about tiny tikes and their tees, home habitats and healthy style, and using literary devices such as alliteration. Our guests are bringing us t-shirts that teach kids about sustainability, animals, and reading and an interior designer who is rocking out New Jersey homes with eco-panache.

Today's Featured Radio Guests

Becky Nix and Olek Novak-Zemplinski - Co-founders bioME 5 an organic kid's t-shirt company whose parent site is bioLINIA.

Pat Gaylor - New Jersey based eco-interior designer who is listed on Modern Green Living.

Also check out Citilog the industry leader in urban forest salvaging and full circle recycling.

The Not So Big House books by Sarah Susanka, which bring to light a new way of thinking about what makes a place feel like home.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Fabulous? Clearly!

Today's show features a woman who looks like Salma Hayek, according to USA Today, but to us just looks like a true Eco-ALLSTAR. She is hanging out in the studio today talking about her bolg, her job, and her unending energy. Not to mention, she brought her awesome daughter Zoe, age 4, who will be coloring most of the time but might also grace the mic with mom (fingers crossed).

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Zem Joaquin - Eco Editor for House and Garden Magazine and Editor of Ecofabulous.com.

Design Happening - NY Design Week co-sponsored by House and Garden Magazine and Featuring the Green and Gorgeous Fashion Show going on tonight.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8th RADIO SHOW

LEEDing the Way With Green Buildings

Our show today is about the frontrunners of green architecture. Building with sustainability in mind increases productivity, happiness, and work satisfaction for the folks inside the buildings and it also cuts down on overall environmental impact. It's just that simple. And that's why we love it.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Paula Vaughan - Co-Director of Sustainability for Perkins + Will, an architecture firm based in Atlanta, GA. See more about Perkins + Will in this great Green Progress article.

Jill Fehrenbacher - Founder and Senior Editor of Inhabitat, an online magazine dedicated to future forward design.

Also check out the Solar Decathlon which Jill will be attending in Washington DC, next weekend October 12th - 20th.

Check out this article that with information on the 40,000 LEED certified building professionals.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st RADIO SHOW

Teaching Sustainable Design: Get Your Green Learn On

It's back to school today on the Lazy E. Not all the way back Billy Madison, but back to college where students are learning cutting edge green-design techniques to help gear up for a better future.

Today's Featured Guest:

Scott Boylston - SCAD professor of graphic design and author/designer of books like "Creative Solutions for Unusual Projects" and others.

Verena Paepcke - SCAD professor of industrial design

Topics Discussed on Today's Show:

Pangea Organics - This awesome skin care uses great sustainable packaging.

Beyond Grey Pinstripes -
spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.

MCAD - Minneapolis College of Art Design has a new program called Sustainable Design Online

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Tuesday, April 10th Radio Show

Big Jugs. Cool Products. Green Planet.

It's all about jugs today on the Lazy Environmentalist. Whether or not you got’em, you’ll know you want’em after hearing today’s show. Whether it’s sleek lawn chairs or rocking playground equipment for children of all ages, milk jugs are easily recycled, durable, and fair well against the elements. We are now on day two of recycle week and frankly, we are just so stoked about these jugs.

Featured Radio Guests:

Tim Madeley – President & Owner of Big Toys, offering recycled children's playground equipment. Big Toys provides a safe, positive play experience that is also fun, exciting and most importantly developmentally appropriate.

Greg Benson - Co-Founder of True Ride, Loll Designs and Epicurean Cutting Surfaces. Benson's companies span skateboard parks, outdoor furniture, and premier grade cutting boards made with forward-thinking eco-friendly materials. Loll Designs uses recycled milk jugs to make stellar lawn and leisure furniture.

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Wednesday, March 28th Radio Show

Look, My Baby's Turning Green

Everybody wants a healthy hip baby. Keeping their fragile little systems as clean and pure as the day they were born is becoming increasingly easy with green choices. Today we talk about how you can make your child the coolest, greenest, and healthiest kid in the sandbox.

FEATURED RADIO GUESTS

Kimberly Rider - Interior Designer, Principal of Atmosphera Home, and Author Organic Baby : Simple Steps for Healthy Living” which will cover all the issues of eco-friendly design as they pertain to preparing for a baby such as setting up the nursery, shopping for non-toxic toys, clothing and food-storage.
www.atmospherahome.com
and available at www.amazon.com/Organic-Baby-Simple-Healthy-Living

Manu Lauzon - Co-Owner of Jomamaco www.jomamaco.com an organic baby clothing + accessories company started to provide other earth and baby-conscious parents with products they need.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:
Website of the Day
Hysterical "informational" video from Larry David www.stopglobalwarming.msn.com

Top Spring Picks
Robo Mower by Friendly Robotics – FriendlyRobotics.com
Adirondack Chairs by Loll Designs - Lolldesigns.com
Vespa Scooters- VespaUSA.com
Buell Motorcyle – Buell.com
Ixi Bike- IxiBike.com
Natural Lawn of America- NaturaLawn.com
Pangea Organics- PangeaOrganics.com

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

Formaldahyde Free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified Cribs and Baby Furniture
Argington – Argington.com
Oeuf – Oeufnyc.com
Celery Furniture – CeleryFurniture.com
Vivavi – Vivavi.com

Baby Skin Care Products
Earth Mama Angel Baby – www.EarthMamaAngelBaby.com
California Baby – CaliforniaBaby.com
Avalon – AvalonOrganics.com

Chlorine Free Disposable Diapers and Wipes
Seventh Generation – SeventhGeneration.com

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Premieres Wednesday, January 31th

Kids Go Green: Clothing & Furniture

Today we can provide for our children in ways that keep them healthy and comfortable and that are also healthier for our planet. And we can also do it in ways that have them decked out in super stylish clothing or playing and relaxing on beautifully designed furniture. Yes, raising our children in an eco-friendly home can be healthy, stylish, and really really fun.

THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:
Rachel Pearson - Founder & Creative Director of Speesees, a children’s clothing company committed to being fun, fair and organic in the products it makes, the way it conducts business, and the baby steps it takes towards creating a more sustainable future for the animal, plant and human speesees on our children's planet.

Laura Higdon - Founder & Creative Director of Lilipad Studio , an incredibly unique line of children’s furniture offers a rich mixture of bold color, expressive patterns and original illustrations crafted to inspire imagination and nourish creativity in the children who use them. Lilipad Studio furniture is made using FSC certified(Responsibly forested) hardwood, and are meticulously hand painted using non-toxic/ no VOC paints.

See the Lilipad Studio collection and more eco-friendly children's furniture available at Vivavi.

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