Category Archives: Sustainability
YIELD: Making Fashion Without Making Waste
Last week, Zanna (my dear friend and co-editor at Green House of Fashion) and I scoped out the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. We were so excited to be invited to the opening celebration for YIELD: Making Fashion Without Making Waste. … Continue reading
Inspiration from John Muir
What’s a silver lining to the demise of print? Well, I was able to snag some incredible book deals this past weekend at a Borders liquidation sale. Of the many titles now beautifully stacked on my nightstand (ripe for the … Continue reading
A Daily Reminder To Think Creatively and Sustainably
Last month Coca Cola and the World Wildlife Foundation unveiled a billboard in the Philippines that uses a thriving species of Fukien tea plant that absorbs air pollutants. Each plant used on the billboard can absorb about 13 pounds of … Continue reading
The High Line, Observing the Observatory
Curiosity got the best of me this past weekend and I finally made it out to the High Line to see firsthand what all the buzz was about. I anticipated it to be hot, crowded and beautiful. And while it … Continue reading
Unleashing Generosity: How Nonprofits Can Leverage New Consumers to Scale Their Impact
Recently, our firm released insights and takeaways from our latest report, UNLEASHED: How New Consumers will Revolutionize Brands and Scale Sustainability. As the title suggests, the primary audience for this study is marketers intent on scaling sustainability and mainstreaming green. And … Continue reading
Sustainable Tables in Brooklyn
In our last Green Room video, BBMG sat down with Slow Food’s Josh Viertel. During the episode Josh talked about growing the sustainable food movement by enabling and empowering consumers to make better food choices for themselves and ultimately for … Continue reading
IceStone Shows the White House How It’s Done
The White House Council on Environmental Quality visited New York City Wednesday as part of a push to urge industrial companies to recycle and adopt other green measures. As part of this visit, White House advisor Nancy Sutley and Brooklyn … Continue reading
Crazy Beautiful: J Henry Fair’s Disturbing Images of our Damaged Earth
Today on Fast Co. Design we were given a sneak peek at photographer (and our friend) J Henry Fair’s new book, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis (powerHouse Books), which chronicles the hauntingly beautiful effects that … Continue reading
BBMG’s Sixth Green Room Episode Featuring Recyclebank’s Chief Sustainability Officer Ian Yolles
How do you reward 2 million people for taking everyday green actions? Recyclebank’s Ian Yolles tells us in the Green Room. In the latest (and sixth!) episode of BBMG’s The Green Room, Ian Yolles, chief sustainability officer of Recyclebank … Continue reading
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