Stuff We Found Today - 9.5.08

Food Stuff

• Green Diva’s Guide to Delicious Living: Herbal Oil, Vinegar & Salad Dressings - (post from Eat.Drink.Better.) Since Joyce loves to make her own salad dressing for her family, she thought these herbal oil & vinegar ideas were great.
• Five Ideas for Using Up Leftover, Cooked White Rice - (post from Eat.Drink.Better.) These recipes are great to keep on hand, because, let's face it, when making rice you always make too much.
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Teens Turning Green: New Natural Skincare Launch at Whole Foods - (post from Organic Beauty View) Read about the amazing group of teen girls that started this line - Teens for Safe Cosmetics.
  

Work & Business Stuff

• The Green Office - Online store for green office & school supplies.
  

Arts, Entertainment, Living & Other Cool Stuff

• Ecobunga.com - A directory of giveaways and deals on green products and services, including sweepstakes, contests, coupons, rebates, sales and free shipping. Great resource for us eco-conscious who are also budget-conscious!
• Dutch Dance Club Lets Patrons Produce Energy - (post from CleanTechnica) Just an amusing little story we thought other ex-clubgoers (read as "too old & too tired to go out anymore") might enjoy.
  

Coco-Zen Newsletter - September 2008

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Stuff We Found Today - 9.4.08

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Young Green Inventors & Entrepreneurs - We came across the stories of these amazing kids on By Kids For Kids (BKFK). Also, check out the invention of the BKFK Going Green Challenge winner - the Water Watcher. Kids rock!!
• Gov. Panel: Bishphenol A in Plastics Could Harm You - Chemical May Affect Prostate, Brain and the Development of Fetuses, Infants and Children (post from TheDailyGreen.com)
  

Home Stuff

• Roof Ray - Easy online tool using Google Maps that lets you estimate how much energy you would save by installing solar panels on your roof.

Tech Stuff

• Bye Bye Box: HP Packages Laptops in Eco-Friendly Bags - Post from Ecopreneurist.
  

Beauty & Fashion

• We Add Up - Organic cotton T-shirts denoting the message that we do, indeed, add up. With a hand-printed unique number on each item, a purchase actually adds one to the count of folks who have chosen to become “ambassadors of the environmental message - helping to spur conversation and educate others about climate change.” Read more about We Add Up.
  

Arts, Entertainment, Living & Other Cool Stuff

• "Stuff Happens" - New TV show by Planet Green (part of the Discovery Channel) in which "Bill Nye the Science Guy" traces where the things we eat, wear and use come from and what impact that has on our planet. Great show to watch with the kids. Read TheDailyGreen's interview with Bill Nye.
• Truth on Earth - A three-sister teen rock band on a mission to save the world...and their music is pretty good, too. Those of you who love the sound of 60's and 70's rock will dig their cool eco-socio-conscious rock vibe - take a listen to some of their songs. It's so great to see today's teens take on the world (for the better)!
• Fodor's Green Travel Guide - Everything you'd expect from a Fodor's travel guide, all with an eye towards eco-friendly travel. A must-have for any vacation.
• 8 Great Great Reads - From food, to interior design, to home buying, to starting a green business, these eco-centric books are great reads for anyone curious about living green. We came across these book suggestions on TheDailyGreen.com.
• Eiffel Tower Goes Dark to Prove a Point - Just an interesting article from EcoGeek.

Stuff We Found Today - 9.3.08

Family & Kids Stuff

• Happyheads bye-bye lice - Although we haven't had the pleasure of experiencing head lice (yet), we came across this blog post by Eco Child's Play and realized that there are parents out there who might be interested in this head lice treatment and prevention kit, especially with the new school season approaching.
• Bamboobino: Bamboo Nursing Pads - As a mom who breastfed, Joyce wishes she had known about these when she was nursing. Read what makes bamboo fabric and clothing so great.
  

Food Stuff

• Eat Well Guide - An online resource for finding sustainable, local, and organic produce in your area.
  

Tech Stuff

• Eco-Friendly Computers - Read EcoGeek's blog posts about some cool green computers: Asus laptops, Dell desktops, and SimpleTech hard drives. Hey Apple, when are you going to make a green Mac?
  

Arts, Entertainment, Living & Other Cool Stuff

• Ecoflip.org: 'The Green Craigslist' - "Ecoflip is a local classifieds network for eco-friendly people, offering a variety of products..." Read TheDailyGreen's review of Ecoflip.
• Early Adopter Octogenarians Join National Solar Tour - OK...so, this really isn't "useful stuff", but we found it extremely entertaining as we imagined ourselves 40 years later driving around in solar powered golf carts with all our aging cohorts.

Stuff We Found Today - 9.2.08

Home Stuff

• Low Impact Living: Green Weefab Mini-Homes - These little mini-homes posted by Green Building Elements are pretty cool. Although building an add-on is a bit aspirational for us at the moment, it's sure fun to daydream about.

Food Stuff

• To-Go Ware - Their reusable Bamboo Utensil Sets are perfect for those of you who already "brown bag it", but for those of us who never seem to have enough time to make & bring our own lunch, these utensil sets allow us to skip the plastic fork when we order that salad to-go. Plus, the utensil holders are made from discarded plastic bags and support some of the poorest communities in India.

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Greenloop: Sale - End of summer Clearance Sale Up to 60% off everything on their website.
• Modify: Sale - Receive 15% off entire purchase with coupon code "summersale".
• Boho Magazine - Finally, a real fashion magazine for eco-fashionistas...hoorah!
  

Art, Entertainment & Other Cool Stuff

• Cool Globes - An outdoor, public art exhibit highlighting climate change and simple things we can do to prevent it. The exhibit features 40 custom-designed 5-foot globes, with each depicting a solution to the climate crisis. Great for a sunny day out with the kids! Globes are exhibiting in San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington DC.