More Hip Than Hippie - The Eco-friendly OfficeVal attended the
sustainability conference at Chico State. This week we do the usual finds, chocolate, beer and then we dive in to making the places your work and worship a bit more green.
The Beer: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - Made in Chico, CA.
The Chocolate:
Scharffenberger
(By the way I found out that while they are not organic or fair trade, this company is committed to sustainable farming. Find out more here.
The Finds:
- From about.com - Americans Would Support Higher Gas Tax to Reduce Global Warming - Economists Believe Raising Gasoline Prices Would Lower Consumption
- From CNN -
Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
- From YahooNews - Wal-Mart doubling organic food offerings.
- Ideal Bite - Starbucks review - don't forget to read Starbuck's Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR)
Annual Report and judge for yourself.
Shout out: Podcasting Dallas with Larry (all by himself no Kevin - Kevin must be Val's imaginary friend). They featured us on their site this week.
Greening the office and the church
Dori and Val give a lot of great tips (to many for me to transcribe here) so I am going to be posting only the links they mention not the tips. I hope you find them helpful.
Listener Emails
- Kmpollock - Greening the Cube, by Joel Makower. Eco-friendly furniture meets the cubicle culture.
- Amanda - discovered a brand of reusable furnace filters called Web. You can trim them to any size and once a month you just remove the pad, rinse, and allow to dry.
- Chuck - Found this tidbit on digg.com about recycling styrofoam via bacteria! Read it here.
- Barry - Told us about an industrial cleaner manufacturer we can all check out named (no kidding) Beaver Research Company.
- Matt - attached a link from a UK site called the Eden project. I went there last year and bought a mouse mat made from recycled tyres which is great. So I thought more hip than hippy mouse mats would be cool!
- BJK - The mystery is over! It's a she!
- Mrs. B - Just wanted you to know that I won a contest at
Podcast Pickle
and get to pick the featured podcast of the day for a week. Today, I chose your show.
- Bob in Tulsa - found a company in Texas (
SOS From Texas
) that you
might like. They make clothes from organic cotton grown there in Texas
and woven there in the same way.
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