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Extinction is forever – Orangutans need our help!

September 1, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

Trilogy donating proceeds of Certified Organic Rosehip Oil sales to Save the Orangutans… We share 97% of our DNA with orangutans, but they are rapidly heading towards extinction due to habitat destruction. Trilogy’s ongoing campaign to help endangered orangutans in South East Asia was launched last year and has received enormous public support. In 2009 [...]

Living Nature – Passionate about nature

August 30, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

Interview with Jody Bews-Hair, Customer Solutions Manager at Living Nature Tell us a bit about your time and role with Living Nature? I’ve been with Living Nature a bit over 6 years, after my husband and I left Auckland and ran away to the countryside of Kerikeri. I joined as National Sales Manager, and since [...]

Swimming Cities – A Floating Carnival

August 9, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

Swimming Cities is a flotilla of art that is artistically welded, sculpted, nailed and painted by river gypsy artists. Brooklyn based street artist SWOON created the original concept. Inspired by Venice, the intention for the project was set out into the common consciousness where it attracted a tribe of musicians, writers, carpenters, performers and like [...]

Finding Light at the end of the Garbage Pile

July 30, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

Stuart Haygarth, lighting designer, artist and garbage man, sees the beauty in objects lost, found, discarded, and spat out of the oceans. He gathers them all, the unwashed, the unclaimed, and the unwanted. He sees the lives that have been lived, the bottles drunk and discarded by the drinkers. The glasses lost and never found [...]

The Story of Cosmetics

July 22, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

The Story of Cosmetics is a seven-minute educational video examining the use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products and the serious health implications for consumers, worker health and the environment. Annie Leonard, director and author of The Story of Cosmetics explains in layman’s terms what the fine print on the back of [...]

Zen and the Art in Nature.

July 17, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist who does not seek fame and fortune; he does not seek the acclaim of gallery and critic or to line the boardroom walls or prestigious halls. He seeks to commune with the energy of nature and his art is the doorway he uses. Many artists seek to express through two-dimensional [...]

A Man Called Gold – Eduardo Gold

July 8, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

It is the substance of fairy tales and myths. It is a legend in the making. It is the immortalization of one man. To many people – it is sheer folly, a foolish endeavor. Peruvian Environment Minister, Antonio Brack, said it was nonsense. So why is the World Bank paying out $200,000 to support this [...]

Desertec – A Ray of Light in the Quest for Fuel

July 3, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

We are an exploratory species. We are curious – and – We are inventive. We have evolved from hunters and gatherer’s to space explorers. We have reached the peak of various technologies – we have moved from Stone Age to Iron Age. From the Bronze Age to the Industrial Age and we are now at [...]

Organic Certifications and Labels Guide

July 1, 2010 by Easy Green Living · Leave a Comment 

When you’re shopping for organic items – whether food, fabrics or beauty and cosmetics – you need assurance that the product truly stands behind the ethics and practices they are claiming.  Look for these organic certifications and labels to make sure your money is invested in true organics. Beware of copycat logos!  When in doubt, [...]

Black Gold – A Tale of Choices

June 22, 2010 by Henrietta · Leave a Comment 

This is a tale of two continents, two business models and two beverages and two brothers.  One of the tales is about coffee, the other is about tea. One is a story of corporate greed, the other of ethical practices. Brothers Mark and Nick Francis of ‘Speakit Productions’, traveled to the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia [...]

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