I was about seven years old, and frustrated from trying to curl my straight, limp hair when my mom taught me a saying she had learned from her mom when she was a young girl: “What price beauty.”
This classic line refers, of course, to the lengths to which we go for “beauty.” As a second-grader, having sore arms after 35 minutes of setting curlers was a steep bounty for the temporary effect. Today it’s clear that there are bigger stakes - our health and that of our children and our environment - and these stakes are just too high.
We need safer personal care products. Here’s why:
They contain toxic chemicals that affect our health.
Phthalates are most commonly used for softening plastics. When it comes to their use in personal care products, they are a regular ingredient in fragrance and moisturizing beads. A 2008 report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics brought the good news that companies are using less phthalates. However, until they’re officially banned - they’ll remain an…
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It is great that recycled materials are getting more mainstream. The new Targus Spruce EcoSmart Backpack for 15.6-Inch Widescreen Laptops is a new green backpack is made of polyster fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. It also has no PVC and no nickel hardware. They also make a Spruce Toploading case and a Spruce Messenger [...]
Typically, online travel guides are often lacking in the family-friendly department. Would-be family travelers have been looking for a great trip planning experience that also incorporates info and opinions from robust family-travel expertise.
To meet this need, online travel guru site NileGuide.com and Ciao Bambino have partnered to launch family travel guides for top U.S. and international destinations, available at http://www.nileguide.com/theme/family-travel-4.
“As parents know, traditional online travel sites have limited useful family-friendly content,” said Amie O’Shaughnessy, founder of Ciao Bambino, an award-winning resource for traveling parents. “Our partnership with NileGuide fills that coverage gap, creating a credible and invaluable travel planning resource for families where broad destination information is merged with family-friendly insight.”
For parents, by parents
Parents can now plan their next trip based on family-oriented travel guides and trust…
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Valentine’s Day sure gets a lot of attention each and every year – it is the second largest day of the year for greeting cards, making it a HUGE moneymaker for companies like Hallmark as well as every candy and flower shop you can find.
This year, the starry-eyed can cast their romantic gestures in an entirely new and green way: popular green hotels group Joie de Vivre has unveiled a new “eco-romance package” for guests to reignite the flame while staying environmentally conscious; offering romantic indulgences that have less impact on the environment.
Get it on
The new “Sowing the Seeds of Love” eco-romance package lets guests who book a hotel stay at one of Joie de Vivre’s 35 hotels between Jan. 21 and Dec. 15, 2010 (for travel between Feb. 11 and Dec. 31, 2010) while indulging in a variety of “ecodisiacs” (environmentally-friendly aphrodisiacs), from organic chocolates to “green” bath amenities.
Guests will also receive a bottle of Bonterra Vineyards biodynamic…
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With the recent and repeated occurrence of global tragedies, such as the devastating earthquake in Haiti, affecting people across the globe, a new moniker of tourism – compassionate travel – has emerged. Generous, compassionate individuals want to make a real, substantial difference in the lives, communities and habitats of affected regions throughout the globe.
“Fortunately, in times of such unimaginable disaster there are generous individuals worldwide who want to contribute money and/or personal time in relief,” said Chris Noble, general manager of World Nomads. “However not everyone is honorable and we just want everyone to be on the lookout for possible and documented charity and travel scams.”
To give a brief overview, WorldNomads.com has compiled a list of scams to watch for:
Know who you are speaking with
Check credentials of unrecognized organizations and /or individuals purporting to be collecting for even well-known charities. This is common sense both at home and in a…
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Travelers are seeking out more adventure travel opportunities at every turn, as adventure tourism is becoming one of the fastest growing sectors in the industry.
Nearly half of American adults, or roughly 98 million people, have taken at least one “adventure trip” in their lifetime. The niche itself is no longer only for the x-factor thrill seekers; it has exploded into the mainstream.
In fact, adventure tours went from a 16% passenger volume in 2001 to 50% for advance bookings in 2008, according to New York Times writer Kirk Johnson.
Today, popular resorts are providing a wider array of activities targeted at mainstream travelers, a market that includes increasing numbers of two-income families, childless couples, single adults and members of the growing aging population; seniors are among the most surprising demographic of a new breed of adventure traveler.
“Intensely active older men and women who have the means and see the twilight years as just another stage of exploration are…
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Many people going on vacation or traveling for pleasure or business may immediately shrug off the idea of sustainable tourism or green lodging as some crazy hippie idea, that will have them staying in a hut or tent in the middle of nowhere without the ability to shower. But this isn’t necessarily the case at all. Doing your part to better the environment and preserve the world your children and grand children will grow up in doesn’t have to be uncomfortable.
Sustainable tourism should be a concept that anyone who has been on a few foreign vacations can appreciate. Traveling to Greece or Mexico expecting to find natural beauty and a true getaway, could easily find you arriving in a tourist hot spot overrun by commercialism and the mayhem of drunk college students. Sure, it could be fun, but not exactly what you were looking for when you paid several thousand dollars to explore the culture of another country.
According to National Geographic’s website, sustainable and Geo-tourism is…
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Watch this 3 minute video of This is Our Moment with Leo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Jason Bateman, Felicity Huffman, Chace Crawford, Emmy Rossum and Justin Long to tell our elected officials to vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act pending in the Senate. This video was the brain child of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC.) I absolutely loved Justin Bateman and Justin Long in the video. Short, sweet, to the point with some humor added in.
What is this video all about? On the NRDC’s website,
The House of Representatives has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, an historic bill that sets the nation’s first limits on global warming pollution. But the House vote also unmasked some energy villains: those who said NO to millions of clean energy jobs; NO to reducing carbon pollution; NO to breaking America’s dangerous dependence on oil; and NO to making America more competitive.
Now, the U.S. Senate will take up…
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We use the word “Greenality” which is an intentional cross between green and quality - we assert that like quality, green has to be planned, designed and built in from the very start, and not tacked on as an afterthought. Did Apple do this well in the iPad?
This is a hot topic, and it illustrates some of the principles of Green Project Management, because it should help hone the thinking skills of a PM who is focused only on the development of a product, or its advertising campaign, and not on the larger picture – including the full Life Cycle Assessment of the device.
Rather than lots of new content here, we selected some extracts of already-written postings about the iPad (our own form of re-use) for your convenience.
“Every time a real, physical CD (remember those?) is purchased, it is the product of an extensive supply chain. Raw oil is processed into plastics. Plastics are turned into CD blanks. CDs are burnt en masse and liner…
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This classic line refers, of course, to the lengths to which we go for “beauty.” As a second-grader, having sore arms after 35 minutes of setting curlers was a steep bounty for the temporary effect. Today it’s clear that there are bigger stakes - our health and that of our children and our environment - and these stakes are just too high.
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