Junkyard Architecture
By ALISON GREGOR
Published: December 16, 2010
Laura Dante Photography
How about a bay window made of an old truck body, or a closet made of red wine barrels? Or even a home framed in steel from melted-down submarines. That time may be fast approaching.A shipping container is lowered to the roof of 25 Carroll Street in Brooklyn.
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Loomstate is one of my favorite eco fashion labels, so I'm always scanning the web for sales! I just found a few bargains on Yoox.com. They have both men's and women's Loomstate tees and jeans on sale. YEA!! Click on photo for link.
EO Products All Purpose Soap is one of my favorite green products from 2010! I use it for everything, every day! Click on photo for link.African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable PowerClick here to continue reading article.
IPTUSURI, Kenya — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market.
Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid. Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning.
That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches.
“My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children.
Juice Beauty, the Organic Solutions Company known for offering high efficacy, yet authentically organic beauty products, is proud to introduce two new products that provide the perfect union between high tech science and nature. With a proprietary blend of fruit stem cells to complement the authentically organic juice base, Stem Cellular Repair Moisturizer and Stem Cellular Repair Eye Treatment work at the cellular level to repair DNA damage and to increase cellular proliferation resulting in less wrinkles and younger looking skin.
Three years in development, Juice Beauty’s scientists utilized a proprietary blend of Fruit Stem Cells and fat soluble Vitamin C to produce the Stem Cellular Repair Moisturizer and Stem Cellular Repair Eye Treatment providing remarkable results for customers interested in ultimate age defying technology. Beauty experts and the press have long recognized Juice Beauty for leadership in their Green Apple Peels and Tinted SPF moisturizers….now beauty professionals can look to Juice Beauty for cutting edge Age Defying solutions.
Focus Group studies (4 weeks) were conducted and the results were astounding:- 96% of participants saw noticeable improvement in fine lines andwrinkles by using the Stem Cellular Repair Eye Treatment.
- 88% of participants saw significant improvement in skin tone, firming and texture by using Stem Cellular Repair Facial Moisturizer.
“With our own proprietary blend of organic fruit stem cells injected into our clinically validated antioxidant rich organic juice base infused with Vitamin C, Stem Cellular Repair Moisturizer & Eye Treatment will help decrease DNA damage and accelerate cellular proliferation to help repair, renew and protect your skin. “ says Gerard Camme, COO and Karen Behnke, Founding Partner, Juice Beauty.
Both formulations are protected from environmental contamination with high tech airtight pump jars. The Stem Cellular Repair Eye Treatment’s applicator allows for a gentle massage to help stimulate circulation.
Juice Beauty’s Stem Cellular Repair Moisturizer (1.7 oz US $65.00, Canada $70.00) is a rich
formulation that absorbs quickly and the Stem Cellular Eye Treatment (0.5 oz US $45.00, Canada $48.00) has a gel like consistency one can feel working the moment it is applied. Both products are perfect for day and night moisturizing treatment.
Three years in the works—Stem Cellular Repair Duo is the result.Advanced Age Defying, luxuriously rich and authentically organic.
Stem Cellular Repair Products launch on December 13th at The Shopping Channel (exclusive launch in Canada). In January, they will be available in the U.S. at Juicebeauty.com, Sephora, and Blue Mercury; and extensively throughout Asia at Sephora, Lane Crawford, Isetan, Siam Paragon, and Harvey Nichols, reinforcing Juice Beauty’s commitment to bring powerful, effective and pleasurable organic beauty solutions to the world.
Juice Beauty…The Organic Solution.For More Information: www.juicebeauty.com
This week I posted a review on Fancy Green about Haiku's Tribute Bag, a stylish and super functional purse made out of cyclePET, a material made out of recycled plastic bottles.
How many times a week (a day) do you buy a cup of coffee or tea? How about bringing your own mug so you can quit wasting all those single-use paper cups" Even if shops use compostable cups, it still takes energy to make those cups. Bring your own! : )
Cork ReHarvest goes National!
In March 2010, Whole Foods® Market will announce its endorsement of a nationwide cork recycling program – Cork ReHarvest. We wanted to share this news with you because we would like to spread the word – with your help – about our mission to save one the world’s most environmentally important regions, the Mediterranean cork forests.
This national effort with Whole Foods Market is a major accomplishment, noted Cork ReHarvest Director Patrick Spencer.
“We have also partnered with all Harrah’s Entertainment properties in Las Vegas and we have just been invited by bon appétit magazine to be part of ‘Vegas Uncork’d’,” he said. “In addition to preserving a natural resource, we are helping the family farmers whose livelihoods depend on these forests.”
The national program with Whole Foods Market also includes Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVV), the Rainforest Alliance and Cork Supply USA. Last year WVV and Whole Foods teamed up for the first time with a handful of other companies to launch a carbon footprint friendly Cork ReHarvest program throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Eleven Whole Foods stores collected corks, which were eventually recycled into wine shippers.
The nonprofit organization Cork ReHarvest has led the cork recycling movement in the US and Canada, helping to collect and recycle some of the 13 billion natural corks that are produced each year. Another important goal is Cork ReHarvest’s work to educate the public about the ecological importance of the Mediterranean cork forests. You can find additional information on the program at www.corkreharvest.org.
Intern for Fancy Green (Unpaid)
Fancy Green is on online guide to eco living, featuring reviews of eco fashion, eco apparel, natural body products, earth-friendly home cleaning products, and more.
Our Motto: "You don't have to live a beige little life to be green ~ You can be Fancy Green."
Our Goal: To show people how to live stylishly while also saving the planet.
We are looking for a few interns with excellent research and communication skills to help us add more content to the site. (Writing and web skills also appreciated!) Some of projects we need help with:
* Researching and writing information pages for the site about various eco and sustainable fabrics and other topics. EX: organic cotton, repurposed fabric, fair trade, etc.
* Researching and writing about various fabrics and eco concerns in the outdoor apparel industry.
* Preparing interview questions and transcribing interviews.
* Researching and assembling databases (eco fashion designers, eco apparel designers, eco boutiques, eco fashion publications/blogs, etc., fabric associations, etc.).
* Writing for Fancy Green’s blog.
* Editing photos in Photoshop.
* We’re also open to your ideas about how we can make our site better and how we can reach more readers and boost our visitor stats.
Here are some of the fashion companies sending us gear in the next month: Debra Lindquist, John Patrick, Nudie jeans (Sweden), Loomstate, Vuori, Preloved (Canada), Nate Organics (Canada), and a few companies that make handbags.
Visit our site, www.fancy-green.com, and send resume and brief note to friendsoffancygreen@gmail.com. THANKS.
"Polar bears are dying. As global warming accelerates, the sea ice they depend on for survival is literally melting away. Bears are starving and drowning as they have to swim farther and farther to reach solid ice. Some are even turning to cannibalism in a desperate search for food. Those trapped on land hundreds of miles from the nearest ice often wander near villages in search of food and are shot.
As if that weren’t enough, oil and gas drilling is destroying and polluting their fast-dwindling Arctic habitat.
A third of all polar bears — including all bears in Alaska — will be extinct by 2050 if current trends continue. The rest of the species will be gone by the end of the century."
http://www.savethepolarbear.org/ - click here to sign a petition that will be sent to Pres. Obama
Check the main site this weekend for reviews of some of the products I reviewed on this trip -- some food storage containers, some eco body products, some eco apparel items, and more. And Josie Maran make up remover/cleaning wipes, pictured top left.
Oh, and, held up my pants with a belt by English Retreads - they make purses and belts and wallets out of old bicycle inner tubes. How lucky for me that the belt matched by outfit perfectly. Even Kamie, my fashionista friend and one of our eco fashion testers, thought I looked fab.
