San Diego GreenLife

Growing Green Communities: Eco-villages & Co-housing (0)

by Laura Silver
One of the things I like best about the green-building movement is that it looks at more than carbon footprints, energy use, healthy and renewable construction materials, (all of which are both necessary and laudable). It also rethinks the basic tenets of why and how we build.
Green construction has taken the concept of [...]

Behind the Scenes at EarthFair 2010, part 1 (0)

by Laura Silver
The 21st Annual EarthFair will be held on April 18, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Balboa Park, San Diego. If it seems a little early to be talking about it, that’s because you aren’t responsible for creating it.
EarthFair remains the world’s largest annual environmental fair and Earth Day celebration, with [...]

In Tune with OB People’s Organic Food Market (0)

by Val Gysler

So, for those of you who don’t know, there’s this little store in Ocean Beach—part grocery, part hippie hangout, part organic-food-lovers’ waking dream. If you consider yourself green, and long for something different, it might very well be worth checking out.

The Ocean Beach Peoples Organic Food Market on Voltaire Street in OB has [...]

Digital Printing Goes Eco-Friendly (0)

by Oreste Prada

“Eco-friendly” is likely the last term one would associate with the paper-dependent digital-printing world. And yet, more and more, environmentally-sustainable practices and efforts to reduce environmental footprint are becoming standard practice within printer companies.

Go to Canon’s US web site and one of the first claims it makes is a dedication to the environment [...]

Mission Statement (0)

To create an online resource for authentic, positive information on sustainability and green issues in our community.
To educate and encourage site visitors in their efforts to make “green consciousness” part of  everyday life.
To show that being green is  cool, forward- looking and fun. There is plenty of doom and gloom reporting about what is going [...]