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Green Kids Clothes: Electropura Review

2012-02-28T01:58:29Z

Electropura is run by fashion designer Lynn van Gastel who creates fashions for kids in sizes o-5 from existing materials. In today’s world where nearly everything seems to be disposable, these fashions rescue fabrics that still have tons of wear in [...]

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Skateboard Sculptures of Haroshi

2012-02-28T01:15:21Z

Check out these fantastic skateboard deck sculptures by Japanese artist Haroshi. He’s got an extremely varied portfolio of artwork made from old beat up decks. These five pieces shown here are just some of his latest sculptures. His method of wooden [...]

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Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas — For the Cook

2011-12-02T19:06:24Z

Looking for a green gift idea for the eco-chef in your life?? Check out these kitchen spice racks available in bamboo. Bamboo is a great wood to use because it grows extremely quickly with little water and no use of pesticides [...]

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Beads For Change

2011-12-02T18:37:20Z

Are you looking for an eco-friendly product for the fashionista on your shopping list this year? Check out Beads for Change. This program employs women of Uganda who live in hillside slums. They are refugees after decades of war in [...]

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Oil Town Living

2011-11-12T03:59:13Z

I’ve got to admit that I live in the middle of a city fueled by oil. Make no mistake about it, Calgary is definitely an oil town. We’ve got a terrible reputation as red necks with out Stampede and a [...]

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Penguin Sweaters

2011-10-25T21:04:30Z

To be clear, this post is about tiny sweaters for penguins such as pictured on the left. I am not writing about sweaters for humans with penguins on them such as this one from Chanel pictured on the right. It’s [...]

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Getting In Bernie Madoff’s Pants

2011-08-28T17:33:12Z

They say you can’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes so can you judge him after using his pants?? Check out the Bernie Madoff collection on Fredrick James for a cool selection of Ipad covers [...]

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The Ultimate Solar Light

2011-08-06T17:58:05Z

Here in the Western world, solar lights are a novelty not a necessity. It’s easy to forget about people living on other places of our small planet that aren’t going green to save the world. They’re simply living hand to [...]

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Etsy Find: Talking Squid Recycles Tees

2011-08-06T17:44:20Z

Talking Squid is not just saving the planet by recycling t-shirts, they’re also helping you save money with their huge 50% off summer sale. Yup, half off! So, what could you spend half as much on?? Well, they’ve got an outstanding [...]

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Quitting Smoking

2011-07-25T16:10:37Z

Quitting smoking is one of the best things that you can do for the health of the environment and yourself. Cigarette butts make up about 80% of litter commonly found on streets. The exhaled fumes from cigarette smoke are a [...]

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Garbage Games

2011-07-24T21:26:10Z

Ever wonder how to get those punk kids in the neighbourhood to stop littering?? Check out these wickedly addicting and easy to install games that will make putting litter in it’s place a fun thing to do! The city of [...]

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Mini Cows Score Big For Sustainability

2011-07-23T17:44:39Z

Every heard of Happy Mountain Farm? They raise mini cattle there. That’s right, miniature cows! These little hefers tip the cattle scales at between 600-800 lbs each as opposed to more traditional cows weighing in at about 1200 lbs. In spite [...]

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Readable Furniture

2011-07-23T17:12:09Z

What to do with those stacks and stacks of old books? Laura Cahill is a British artist who wondered just that same thing. She kept a diary of all of the items being discarded within a mile from her town center [...]

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Which Came First??

2011-07-21T17:31:42Z

And I just throw my egg shells in the compost!! Who knew I was getting it wrong all these years? Check out Kyle Bean‘s amazing egg shell creation titled “What Came First”. The detail on the piece is truly amazing [...]

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Hump Day Etsy Find: Girl Geek Boutique

2011-07-20T19:29:38Z

I’ve been around the electronics industry for years as my Dad has run a successful small electronics company for the last 20 or so years. When they first opened, we’d often spend long hours into the night building various circuit [...]

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