Posts Tagged ‘green’

pavement to parks
Last Friday was all abuzz with Park(ing) Day, a ‘holiday’ created to celebrate public space. (Sad that it lasts only one day a year!)
In the spirit of reclaiming the streets, Allison Arieff discusses an offshoot of this — land banking.  The strategic acquisition of land in advance of expanding urban development, land-banking in [...]



i opened up this month’s issue of The Ecologist, a British environmetal magazine that i usually would not have thoroughly leafed through at all, had it not been for the ‘Fashion CHANGE!’ heading on the front cover. 

the magazine’s spreads were highlighting London Fashion Week’s Estethica exhibition, which will make its sixth season appearance in February [...]


on collars

03Nov08

from a blue-collar economy
to a white-collar economy
to richard florida’s ‘no-collar economy’
to… a green-collar economy?

‘Provocative, personal, and inspirational, New York Times bestseller The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country–the failing economy and our devastated environment. From [...]