TOPIC: GREEN LIVING (71)

Wild Mint

At Wild Mint, we are dedicated to providing the best non-toxic and eco-friendly products to help families build a healthier lifestyle and environment. We are continually learning, growing, and making sure we are as up-to-date as possible on research about harmful chemicals, new products, and green practices. We want to make change easier and hope to portray that no matter how big or small the changes you make in your life are, you are making a difference!

Sprout

A genuine global innovation is currently springing up all over Europe. A number of young design and robotics students have produced the first pencil you can plant. When the pencil becomes too short to write with, you simply plant it in a pot and after a few weeks you will have delicious fresh herbs or vegetable for the kitchen or flowers for the garden or living room.

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Meatless Monday

Meatless Monday is global movement with a simple message: once a week, cut the meat.
Launched in 2003, Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, working in collaboration with the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our goal is to reduce meat consumption by 15% for our personal health and the health of the planet.

Earth Berries Soap Nuts

Earth's Berries Ltd is a direct importer of soap nuts, a berry that grows on the Ritha tree in India. The berry when added to water creates a low sudsing solution, for our eco friendly laundry detergent and cleaning supplies.

Greenbean Recycle

Greenbean Recycle is a software technology company that aims to increase recycling by incorporating real time analytics, social media, and gaming into its groundbreaking reverse vending machine and web app process.

Litterati

Litterati is using Instagram to crowdsource clean the planet. We are building the world's largest database of litter. Through the use of social media and the data collected from individuals picking up litter, we hope to find ways to work with brands, cities and government organizations to prevent litter from ever reaching the ground.

PARK(ing) Day

PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Since 2005, PARK(ing) Day has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals (operating independently of Rebar but following an established set of guidelines) creating new forms of temporary public space in urban contexts around the world.

HarvestGeek

The core ideal which we believe at HarvestGeek is that the economics of large-scale industrial agriculture is not a sustainable proposition thus the need for efficient, tested and reproducible methods of small-scale food production. We'd like to see communities producing the bulk of their own food. The benefits to this we believe are many.
By empowering the local food movement, communities will benefit from new employment opportunities, money spent on food will stay in the community, fossil fuel use due to food transportation will drop off sharply, impoverished areas access to (healthy) food will increase, and we will be seeding a new generation with an appreciation for food, their health, and their connection to the Earth.

Conscious Box

Conscious Box is a monthly delivery of pure andsustainable products that are handpicked from businesses that care for the planet—just like you.
-Handpicked products delivered monthly
-Only the purest brands pre-filtered for you
-Discover ethical businesses you can trust

Living Building Challenge

The Living Building Challenge is a green building certification program that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to diminish the gap between current limits and ideal solutions. Projects that achieve this level of performance can claim to be the ‘greenest’ anywhere, and will serve as role models for others that follow. 

Bodkin

Bodkin seeks to bring to clothing the mission of architectural modernism: Good, smart design. With comfort at its core, Bodkin creates urban essentials with modern silhouettes and wry details that lend its simple shapes a subtle specialness.
Bodkin favors a relaxed, understated, day-to-night sense of chic that reflects the sensibility of cultural creatives. Within this design framework, all materials are sourced with an eye toward environmental and social good. 

SHFT

SHFT is a multi-media platform founded by film producer Peter Glatzer and actor-filmmaker Adrian Grenier. Our mission is to convey a more sustainable approach to the way we live through video, design, art and culture. As filmmakers who are concerned with climate change, we felt that we could bring something creative to express the changes we wanted to see and were, gratefully, starting to observe. 
SHFT celebrates the burgeoning sustainable marketplace where great design and innovation meet.  We vote with our dollars and can have a powerful impact when we do.

The Greenhouse of the Future

The Greenhouse of the Future is an innovative and strategic design, built of recycled and natural materials, that interacts with the natural phenomena of the planet in order to create the ideal environment for growth and abundance. The technologies and concepts that have inspired the design of this greenhouse have been proven by over 40 years of research and development by Michael Reynolds’ Earthship homes as well as the many studies on passive solar greenhouses.

WeHateToWaste

WeHatetoWaste is global learning community of influential consumers — ‘green moms’ and teachers, leaders of local governments, churches and not-for-profit groups, and brand managers and business leaders. We personally hate to see things go to waste: food, energy, water — you name it and want to do something about it.
We have come together at this website and at offline events to learn about practical ways that we can prevent waste at home and at work, conserve natural resources, and get the most from the products we buy.

Restart Project

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electronics longer, by learning fundamental repair and maintenance skills.