In L.A. it often feels as if the Westside is leading the charge when it comes to being consciously green. As it turns out, the Eastside is its own eco-oasis if you only know where to look. Fortunately, ydt’s put together a comprehensive Green Guide to the East Side to help you out.
Naturewell:...
Green Interior Design
With our dwelling being our most sacred space, it is imperative to be aware of what we bring home with us. Common practice uses a variety of chemicals in our soft furnishings, carpeting, electronics and fabrics; information that should encourage us to be as discerning as possible.
With...
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....
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,...
residential wind turbine
Just when you thought going green was not chic, think again. Contemporary French designer, Philippe Starck, recently released the design of one of a residential wind turbine.
Having come to the realization, at the end of his career, that most of the objects he designed were,...
What: Go Green Expo
Where:
The Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
www.lacclink.com
When:
Friday January 23rd 10am – 5pm
Saturday January 24th 10am – 6pm
Sunday January 25th 10am – 5pm
Why:
Go Green Expo is a showcase...
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.