Sunday, March 19, 2006

More Green Beer


From Wired, a nice article about the Brooklyn and other brewery’s efforts at sustainable business practices. This is green beer that we can get into….like we needed an excuse.



Monday, March 06, 2006

Home Sweet Eco-Home



From the entire-Sunday-eating NYTimes magazine real estate issue , an article on how a former chairman of the Nature Conservancy built the most material friendly house possible. No copper piping (the mining is dirty) no pink panther insulation (it’s filled with formaldehyde). But what would the guys at ‘This Old House’ think?



Sunday, March 05, 2006

Cars for Stars


Trying to re-capture the magic from last years Oscar marketing coup, Toyota used this year’s events to keep the spotlight on their Hybrid technology. 25 Stars and VIPs arrived in Toyota and Lexus hybrids including the new Camry. Not to be outdone, GM jumped on the bandwagon but the only thing they could find worth announcing was a new Escalade. Want fries with that? *Yawn*…

Stars looking for a little something extra came in hybrid limosine services provided by EcoLimo . This seems like a good idea but we have our doubts about how much luxury you can fit in the back seat of a Toyota Prius.