Design a logo for Architecture for Humanity and get $1000 and accolades. Make a Big Noise for Make Trade Fair: A new contest for under-30 peeps who wanna design Oxfam’s next campaign! (via Treehugger) A whole neighborhood of Flexcars. That’s what Alan Durning envisions: “More than 12 million motor vehicles, each of them idle 23 hours a [...]

I’m only givin’ you two different orgs that’re offering gift baskets — cuz really, these 2 have so many gift baskets that there’s something for everyone :) The Garment Worker Center in LA’s offeringa buncha fair trade, anti-sweatshop gift packages this season, including: * Bath Pamper Kit * Hot & Spicy Cooking * Start The Day in a [...]

C.I.C.L.E (Cyclists Inciting Change Thru Live Exchange), which brought you Life Can Be So Car Free, is back with an event sure to warm the cycler’s holiday heart. It’s a toy and winter clothes drive, benefiting the Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic’s Children’s Family Celebration and the Homeless Family Christmas Day Luncheon. What: Hauliday Toys ‘n’ [...]

A series that runs every Tuesday, where I ask questions unrelated to the environment, fair trade, or local politics that I’ve been wondering about but haven’t been able to google the answers to. Any advice is appreciated. A day late, comme d’habitude. Just popped into my local Rite Aid to see if they were carrying Plan [...]

Boys with balls of yarn — knitting for the modern man. More treehuggers than smokers? Ethical spending has out-stripped retail sales of booze and cigarettes for the first time, in the UK. November showers bring lots of trash. The LA river’s flooded with trash :( Ecosexuals. No dreads required to qualify. (via grist)

That’s right — WorldChainging and GOOD magazine are teaming up and throwing a party :) The occasion: The LA launch of Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century (my review here). When: Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006 @ 7 pm Where: Equator Books, 1103 Abbot Kinney, Venice. All’re welcome — Be there! Also — This looks like a good time [...]

Got a fave niece or nephew — or even yr own kid? Some eco-friendly gift ideas: A red Pop Top hat, made in the US from 85% recycled plastic bottles :) If the kid’s really little, get the Little Beetle ONE organic and fair trade diapers. Prolly the greenest diapers out there :) Get a fair trade soccer [...]

I’m giving you just 1 outfit, cuz the new sexy eco gal’s about simplicity :) So: Let’s start simple, with a Summer Organic Cotton Scoop Tee made of 100% organic cotton line by a nonprofit employment program in the Tamil Nadu region of India. For eco-friendly pants that’ll go with anything: Bamboo Denim Trousers. They can be [...]

Is it narcissistic to kick off my holiday posts with a wishlist pour moi? Peut-etre, mais c’est mon blog. Thus: What I’d like to get these holidays — mostly stuff for my new apt :) Square Bamboo salad bowl set. It’s quite possible I have a bamboo fetish. But really, I need something I can make and [...]

Waste Free Holidays! Some Washington state counties have a program where participating businesses and orgs offer discounts on music, plays, sporting events, museums, restaurant meals, massages, fitness and other non-material gifts. (thnx, Chris) Gifts for Guns! People in Compton are given $50 gift certificates for turning in a gun, no Qs asked. In past years, the [...]