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Continue reading... →We’re starting a new column called “Be the Change”. We’re looking for super short videos of how YOU ARE being the change in your family, your community, your world. No act is too small. No video is too amateur. This is your chance to inspire all of us to be the change we need right now in the world. Interested? Contact Carolyn (at) mindovermarkets (dot) com.
Continue reading... →More than oil has ruined the Gulf of Mexico since the spill one year ago. An extensive report examines how families in the Gulf area have been affected with adverse health effects such as substantial increases in depression, domestic violence and substance abuse. And if that isn’t depressing enough, the promises BP made to “make this right” have been broken — including the congressional and presidential calls for prompt financial compensation, oil industry accountability, and tougher regulations.
Continue reading... →Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is the first man to receive the Women’s Leadership Award in recognition of his efforts to promote gender equality at the Global Summit of Women in Istanbul, Turkey. In this address, Mr. Ban said, “Women who have fought for gender equality know that the battle does not end there. The battle does not end until there is no discrimination, against any human being, on any grounds. The battle does not end until all people can enjoy a life of dignity.”
Continue reading... →Happy Mothers Day to the Mother in all of us. We picked roses for you today. A celebration of your beauty and strength. Photo credit: Regina Foster, artist extraordinaire.
Continue reading... →Here at Women Of Green, as we scour the landscape for ways to support ourselves, our home communities and the world community to embrace sustainable and regenerative practices (and products!) we keep coming across one after another after another incredible projects.
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Amy Norquist is one of the queens of the green movement. She has worked over twenty years in environmental research and education for many non-profits. With all her deep green experience, one day she had a thought, “I want to install a green roof on my home.” And that’s exactly what she did. Little did she know what she was getting into. That great idea turned into a “hellish experience” as she puts it. So she was determined to make sure other people do not go through what she went through. Thanks to Amy, they don’t. Her company, Greensulate, is a leading edge provider of design, engineering, installation and maintenance services in green roof systems. But what exactly a green roof anyway? Find out in this podcast with Carolyn. You may be ripping up the tar before you know it.
Continue reading... →What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the granola-crunchy, Rocky Mountain-high town of Boulder, you’d be wrong. If you guessed the sea breezes and warm sunlight of Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong again. The greenest place in America is almost devoid of nature — the buildings outnumber the trees — and the air isn’t all that great. But what it has is density and efficiency — the twin qualities that ultimately define green in the global warming era. Applying those standards, the greenest place in America is New York City — specifically, the overcrowded, overpriced and sometimes overwrought island of Manhattan, which has a per-capita greenhouse gas footprint less than 30% that of the national average.
Continue reading... →The Royal Wedding is said to have produce 12 times as much greenhouse gases than Buckingham Palace in a whole year. Ouch! They missed a royal opportunity to make a worldwide statement that trash has no class. But they blew it. And blew it big.
Continue reading... →As covered Tiffany Hsu in the LA Times Greenblog, more than 1,500 designers submitted entries into a contest seeking an icon to represent plastics created using potatoes, corn, wheat, tapioca, sugar, algae and other natural materials.
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