Hot Shop
I'm in love with a "new" store in Soho. No it's not another flashy storefront like you might be expecting, but rather a humble second floor shop just off Broadway...
Dumpster Diving, Part II
Can you believe that we found yet another Eames shell chair on the streets of Brooklyn?? Seriously, Williamsburg must be the place where these things retire. This one is in...
Queens is Doing it, Why Aren’t you?
A friend just tipped me off that our neighbors in the Queensbridge Houses just switched to energy-efficient fluorescent light bulbs. About 10,000 compact bulbs were donated to the New York...
Pay Attention
City cyclists are constantly swapping stories of near death by speeding vans or surprise car doors. Ellen and I often comment that ridding through LIC, Queens in the morning is...
Neighborhood Love
I stumbled across the Long Island City branch of Recycle a Bicycle, and it instantly made me happy. The workshop (where apparently they build the bikes) is located on an...
Freitag… Every Day
Freitag (which means "Friday" in German) started as a phenomenon of Zürich’s urban subculture in 1993 when Markus und Daniel Freitag, both brothers and graphic designers, had a genius, sustainable...
Adding Green to the Color Card of Fashion Design
Last Wednesday I co-chaired an event for the Fashion News Workshop, on bringing sustainable practices into the fashion showroom. FNW is an intimate group of fashion industry leaders who get...
Stop Junkmail for Good with GreenDimes
If you are like me you hate all the junk mail that piles up at your door everyday. Two-thirds of it goes straight in the trash, unopened and unread. Recently...