TOPIC: GREEN LIVING (71)

Earth Berries Soap Nuts

http://www.earthsberries.com

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.

Sprout

http://plantyourpencil.com

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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Sprout, Pencil, Plant, Sustainability, Herbs

Hudson Valley Harvest

http://www.hv-harvest.com

Hudson Valley Harvest distributes fresh produce, meat and eggs, frozen vegetables, and shelf stable items from a network of over 40 independently-owned family farms in New York’s Hudson Valley to restaurants, grocers, and institutions all over the Tri-State area. Founded by a farmer and a chef in 2011, Hudson Valley Harvest only operates locally and their products are completely transparent and traceable to their source.

Meatless Monday

http://www.meatlessmonday.com

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.

Jugglebox

http://juggleboxmoving.com

Jugglebox provides eco-friendly reusable plastic moving boxes for residential, commercial and college moving needs throughout Connecticut, New York City and Hudson County New Jersey.

Eva Smart Shower

http://evasmartshower.com

Eva is a smart shower device that saves up to 50% of your water. Features include a temperature setting that shuts off your water at the start of the shower once a desired temperature is reached, a unique sensor system that adjusts the water flow based off the user’s needs and a timer that reminds users when they are taking too long of a shower. 

The Greenhouse of the Future

http://greenhouseofthefuture.com

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.

Broadway Green Alliance

http://www.broadwaygreen.com

The Broadway Green Alliance is an industry-wide initiative that educates, motivates, and inspires the entire theatre community and its patrons to adopt environmentally friendlier practices.  

Litterati

http://www.litterati.org/index.php

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.

Frontier Markets

http://www.frontiermkts.com

Frontier Markets (FM) is a sales, marketing and after-sales service distribution company in Rajasthan. Founded in 2011, Frontier Markets works with local channel partners and field staff to educate, relate, and reach households providing them access to high quality and affordable clean energy solutions. FM creates solar retail points in the last mile and support them with service centers and after-sales. FM works with manufacturers to get the right products to our rural customers. FM creates women entrepreneurs which is the solar saheli campaign; as FMll as working with local rural villagers to build presence of solar in Rajasthan. To date, FM have sold over 103,000 solar solutions and have created 800 retail points and 500 solar sahelis. Frontier Markets’ mission is to provide over 5 million products to 20 million households in India by 2020.

SHFT

http://www.shft.com

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.


PARK(ing) Day

http://parkingday.org

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.

Eco Web Hosting

https://www.ecowebhosting.co.uk/

We are a web hosting company based in the UK that focuses on providing reliable and fast hosting packages for customers who care about the environmental cost of web hosting. We plant trees for our hosting packages and servers, as well as offset the carbon footprint of our employees.

Greenbean Recycle

https://www.gbrecycle.com

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.

Garden Collage

http://gardencollage.com

Garden Collage is a online lifestyle magazine that curates stories about the aesthetic value of gardens, environmental innovation, plant-based beauty products, the farm-to-table movement, travel, and other fresh takes on the enduring appeal of gardening in our modern world. The magazine explores the ever-changing role of the contemporary garden with their mission to bring the garden into people's lives.