Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Cradle to Cradle, CSA, Culture, Energy, Facts, Food, Landfill, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Social Responsibility, Sustainable, Thoughts, Waste on 01 31st, 2009 | No Comments
Creative Citizen on Yahoo Green
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...
Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Culture, Energy, Facts, Farmer's Markets, Food, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Green Washing, Homesteading, Landfill, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Seasonal, Social Responsibility, Sustainable, Thoughts, Toxins, Victory Gardens, Waste, Water/Oceans on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Free Green Living Workshops in Santa Monica
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....
Welcome President Obama
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,...
Posted by nancyastrid in Alternative Transportation, Biodiversity, Community, Cradle to Cradle, CSA, Culture, Energy, Farmer's Markets, Farms, Food, Food Revolution, Gardens, Green Building, Green Living, Green Washing, Homesteading, Human Scale, Landfill, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Organic, Paradigm Shift, Plastic, Regenerative, Seasonal, Sustainable, Thoughts, Toxins, Victory Gardens, Waste, Water/Oceans on 01 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Calender of Events in The World Of Green – Winter 2009
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...
Posted by nancyastrid in Community, Culture, Energy, Facts, Green Building, Green Living, Human Scale, LEED, Life Cycle, Local, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift, Sustainable, Thoughts, Waste on 01 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Integrating Green Building into the Urban Environment
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,...
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Culture, Energy, Facts, Green Living, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift, Sustainable, Thoughts, Water/Oceans on 12 9th, 2008 | No Comments
Lawns
In recent decades, there has been an anti-lawn movement; stemming from the desire to wake up Americans to the reality that keeping up with the Jones’s, truly isn’t a satisfactory way of living. So, what is wrong with lawns, anyway? Aside, from being water and energy intensive, lawns are usually...
Posted by nancyastrid in Culture, Facts, Local, Natural Reources, Thoughts, Water/Oceans on 10 15th, 2008 | No Comments
The Los Angeles River
Breaking news – there is a river in Los Angeles, who knew? For thousands of years, the Los Angeles river was a large meandering natural river, that was an indispensable source of water and life for inhabitants in the area. Native Americans began inhabiting the area some 9000 years ago. The pueblo...
TV Killed The Radio
Statistically, in the United States, Americans watch an estimated 147 hours of television per month! That equates to 6 days, watching TV for 24 hours! How is it that we are spending 1/5 of our month doing such a meaningless activity? Yes, we are learning about the latest bachelors, the secrets of...
Posted by nancyastrid in Culture, Paradigm Shift, Regenerative, Sustainable, Thoughts on 09 5th, 2008 | No Comments
A New Renaissance
Through out the past few years, we have witnessed the birth of new words and phrases. Lyrics to new songs, that we as humans are learning to sing. These melodies, are defining a new era; vocals, still unknown or unclear to many. Sustainability has been on the whispering lips of many, as of late. A new...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.
Learn more about Astrid Design Studio415.407.8409
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