This Friday, don’t just buy nothing — use nothing!
For 20 years, the people behind Buy Nothing Day have been pleading with consumers to avoid the frenzy inherent in “Black Friday,” the no-holds-barred shop-o-rama that comes the day after Thanksgiving.
This year, they’re ramping things up and calling for an all-out wildcat strike against the “capitalist consumption machine.” Socialists, you say? No, just worried people who want to take a stand in the face of “crises of
Can’t Trust the Danged Gubberment!
Two disturbing news items recently crossed my desk. The first reports that LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification — the gold standard for green buildings — has been given to buildings that are not in fact energy efficient.
A building can be designed on paper to be LEED-certified, but the way it’s actually constructed and operated can strip from it any sort of genuine
6 Tips For Cutting Through Greenwashing
Plenty of products are trotting out their green credentials, but how can consumers and the people who build and decorate homes for us – architects, builders and interior designers, tell what’s transparently green, or greenwashing?
Metropolis magazine recently asked designers – builders, architects and interior designers about their approaches to green spaces. Their responses highlighted some of the shortcomings of cutting through the greenwashing to find the
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