Greenwashing: Downright Deceit
By Nancy Astrid Lindo for Eco Matters Daily
The Importance of Battling Greenwashing – A Case in Point
By Davida Heller of Ecospire
Should we Green Wash for the Sake of Spreading Green to the Masses?
By Tracy Helper for The Huffington Post
“A human being is part of the whole called by us the universe,
a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something
separate from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of consciousness…
Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening...
Are you a creative citizen?
By Kastle Waserman
Posted Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:50am PST
The idea of global warming can sometimes be a daunting, overwhelming concept. How can one person help fix this problem that is literally changing the face of the earth? The website Creative Citizen offers a manageable...
FREE GREEN WORKSHOPS
Workshops will be held:
SM Public Library (Ocean Park Branch)
2601 Main Street @ Ocean Park
Santa Monica, CA 90405
January 24, 2009 @ 2:00 PM
Part 1
Green Living
This workshop on Green Living, will help lay the foundation to create your green abode
– whether you own or not....
Whatever direction you are slanted, there is no doubt that one can feel the exuberance in the air.
It is a sigh of relief that is being felt coast to coast.
Americans are joining in, with the anticipation that we are in the dawning of a new epoch.
This marks a historical moment, re-empowering this country,...
The WATER Institute web video, Your Salmon Creek, is available with some amazing underwater footage of habitat restoration and rehabilitation.
This is a, below-the-scenes, look at the historic reintroduction of the endangered Coho Salmon to the Salmon Creek Watershed in Sonoma County, CA. Experts...
January 15 - Green Building Workshop (Brooklyn, NY)
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: LC 400, Dibner Library Building 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
A workshop that brings industry researchers and developers of green buildings technologies, entrepreneurs, investors, representatives from...
Green Living Roof
The business, of environmental capital is not only a vast new market in the making, but it is a global economy, a shift in our patterns, as well as a turn in ecological literacy.
Urban green building has been on the forefront of this movement and has set the stage for us: the designers,...
Green Building
Green Building Event at NYU/Poly
Date:
Thursday, January 15
Time:
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location:
LC 400, Dibner Library Building
5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
A workshop that brings together university and industry researchers and other developers of green buildings technologies,...
Astrid Design Studio is an Eco Interior Design and Green Consulting firm. We are a boutique studio, focused on residential and commercial interior and exterior design, based on the principals of ecological design.
In the Green Consulting facet of our work, the basis of our projects is on educating our residential and commercial clients on the elements of integrating living and working sustainably and incorporating a richer way of life.