Posted by Astrid in Culture, Eco Interior Design, Energy, Facts, Green Living, Indoor Air Quality, Natural Reources, Organic, Plastic, Toxins, Water/Oceans on 01 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment
How to Nurture Your Fall Landscape
With a change in season, the days are slowly getting shorter and the leaves are starting to turn. This is an ideal time of the year to prepare your landscape and garden for the approaching chilly weather and perhaps frost. There are many things you can do to prepare your landscape for the coming months...
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....
Posted by nancyastrid in Biodiversity, Community, Food, Green Living, Local, Natural Reources, Paradigm Shift, Sustainable, Water/Oceans on 01 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Salmon Protection in Sonoma County
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...
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 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 Energy, Facts, Green Building, Green Living, LEED, Sustainable, Water/Oceans on 11 18th, 2008 | No Comments
What’s a Natural History Museum in the 21st century?
In September, the world welcomed, the most cutting edge state of the art science museum, known as The California Academy of Sciences. Located in the midst of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco; standing as a beacon representing the only museum that houses a planetarium, a natural history museum and...
Posted by nancyastrid in Facts, Green Living, Landfill, Plastic, Waste, Water/Oceans on 11 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Plastic is a Faux Pas
So Plastic is a faux pas? But isn’t one of man’s best 20th c. inventions? Perhaps, but that is debatable. Yes, it has endless benefits in the medical field and various other industries …. but, could it be that we, as a race, are addicted to it? I strongly believe we are. Plastic is the...
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...
Message In A Bottle
To raise awareness on the magnitude of the Garbage Patch, also known as The North Pacific Gyre, a sea craft aptly named “Junk” set sail late in the Summer. Scientist Marcus Eriksen, of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), in addition to, another researcher and filmmaker spearheaded...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.
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