Rock a Hawaiian Lifestyle Wherever You Are
Being in Hawaii makes you feel not just physically better, but spiritually and emotionally as well. So why not cultivate a kamaʻāina state of mind wherever you are? Aloha shirt is optional.
Sustainable Lifestyle articles:
Saffron as Soul Spice
Pricey, precious golden threads By Kimberly Nichols In my early twenties, while just beginning my career and relatively money-poor, I was given the job of throwing a dinner party for my colleagues at an advertising agency. My super hip boss, whom I was dying to impress, confessed that he was a remarkable cook and offered […]
Private Trees, Public Produce
Clean up your yard and feed a stranger By Lauren Hudgins Californians, especially new arrivals, can hardly wait to plant or harvest fruit trees in their yards, but sometimes even old-timers get more than we bargained for. Can’t keep up with that impressively productive (and perhaps messy) plum or orange tree? Reduce waste, share the […]
Passive House Design Builds Efficiency into the Future
Passive House design addresses what are generally understood to be best practices for building performance to dramatically reduce energy consumption by up to 90 percent.
Ocean Trash to Treasure
“The problem is turning off the fire hydrant,” explains Richard; in other words, ending the continual flow. “The thing we do is make people aware that there is all of this plastic.”
Degrees of Sustainability
College environmental programs are a boon to job-seekers, eco-warriors and a planet demanding new solutions By Elyse Glickman What do you want to be when you grow up… besides a socially responsible citizen? The answer to that question has become a bit more complicated in the last decade. Once upon a time, a college degree […]
Film: Fed Up
Directed by Stephanie Soechtig Review by Abigail Lewis Our obesity rate is breaking the scale at 30 percent and everybody’s confused. We’ve been told that if we get enough exercise we’ll lose weight, but obesity rates keep rising at the same rate as fitness rates. How is this possible? In Fed Up, a new film […]
Missed-Conception
We are increasingly awash in a sea of plastic. In the Northern Pacific Ocean, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—an ever-growing mass of marine debris roughly the size of Texas—is comprised of six kilos of plastic* for every kilo of natural plankton. On land, the Ocean Travelers Plastics Gallery at the Monterey Bay Aquarium provides a […]
Marianne Williamson’s Campaign to Bring Love (and Sanity) to Congress
Marianne Williamson envisions her campaign as “a collective act of love and a stand for possibility.”
Green Spaces = Happy Places
By Laura G. Owens Everyone knows breathing in nature’s landscape brings instant inner Tahiti. But how long does the ahhhh of a sunset or green city park last? British researchers with the University of Exeter Medical School found that when people move to places with greener spaces, not only do they experience an immediate bump […]