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Matthew Modine Wants Us To Bike For A Day
[Matthew Modine showing off his wheels]
Go HERE for more photos of this event by Max Flatow.
On Monday, Matthew Modine and Eric Villency hosted the kickoff party for the upcoming Bicycle for a Day (happening this Saturday), at the showroom of Maurice Villency. BFAD promotes the adoption of alternative transportation, and especially the individual effort required to make it work (we’ve done our part!). Guests such as Maggie Rizer, Kelly Choi, Simon van Kempen and Alex McCord, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Holly Dunlap, Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richtofen, Lara Meiland, Tatiana and Campion Platt, Gloria Reuben, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Blaine Trump, Kimberly Villency, and our Fave Four, Douglas Marshall, Keith Lissner, Devorah Rose and Kim Bates, enjoyed savory organic hors d’oeuvres from Pure Food and Wine and sipped VeeV cocktails and organic wines by Organic Vintages.
[Photos by BEN GABBE/PMc]
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Reducing Our Carbon Footprints: The Facts
All this talk about reducing our carbon foot prints may be paying off. Americans drove 10 billion miles less in the month of May this year! This probably has more to do with gas prices than anything else, but; it’s still kindof cool.
Go HERE to calculate how big your own carbon footprint is.
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[How To Buy A Bicycle In NYC]
[Envirolution: The Next Generation Of Sustainability]
[How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint]
[Matthew Modine Wants Us All To Go Ride Our Bikes]
Party Dress Of The Week
[Image via Shopbop]
This week’s party dress is all about getting your green on! This Ladybell Open-Back Dress by Larsen Gray is inspired by the lovely dresses Rachelle and Claire wore at The Green Party from our favorite eco-tique, Kaight. This little “green” dress is 100% organic cotton and can be accessorized head to toe with other earth-friendly products to create an eco-luxe look! To create a complete outfit that would impress mother earth try a canvas clutch by Beau Soleil, T-Strap Sandals by Corso Como and Alkemie Jewelry, which is forged from 100% reclaimed metals! Très eco-chic!
Get Your Daily Coffee The Earth Friendly Way
A local coffee shop branch called Tisserie, attached to the DKNY store on Thompson street in SoHo, not only warms the pastries for you after you order but also uses cups made from corn. The cup company Greenware makes crystal clear cups from a 100% compostable corn biopolymer, in 5 sizes ranging from 7 to 24 ounces.
Reverse Graffiti Project: “No One Owns The Dirt”
[Photo taken by Laura Morton]
If you had to guess what a “professor of dirt” does for a living, what would you come up with? A farmer in newly-submerged Iowa…a garbageman with an extreme affinity for his work…a homeless entomologist? Now, the answer is clear. It’s the brains behind the Reverse Graffiti Project. Touting their “philosophy of clean” while producing ecologically sound works of art, Green Works has turned the traditional notion of graffiti (social nuisance, indication of community decline) completely on its head to produce what can only be called stunning works of art.
Samsung’s Corny Cellphone
The hippies really do seem to be winning. Not only has the tree-hugging environmentally conscious consumer and corporation become somewhat of a standard barer in the marketplace, but also, one of technology’s driving goals seems to be finding and perfecting more sustainable alternatives for everything from car design and alternative fuels to farming methods.
Planet Slayer- Helping Us Go Green
If you”re not sure how big your carbon footprint is (just look at the size of your Con Ed bill for July) or you”re not sure if you should give up meat to ease up the burden on our environment (just read today”s Times), then you can always count on Australian schoolkids to help you make your decision. A bunch of ingenious folks from Oz have devised a game, aptly named Planet Slayer, that would make an insurance adjuster blush: calculate when you “should” expire if you really want to help out humanity. I know, you”re an awesome foozball player and have too many Facebook friends to just die, but some people think you”re just a drain on precious resources, so give it a spin!
Look To The Parks For NYC Local Cuisine
So apparently there is a tomato scare across the country right now, and the city is flipping out even more than America at large, as they are deprived of the T in BLTs, and one of the key ingredients in guacamole. The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes brings us a rare form of salmonella, which didn”t prevent me from buying roma tomatoes at D”Agostino”s yesterday, though it did prevent me from chancing Chipotle”s corn salsa. (If I contract salmonella, I”ll let you know.) But it has sparked attention in a home gardening trend!
The Daily Green
If you are a frequenter of Whole Foods, I am sure you have seen plenty of the FEED 100 totes hanging on display. They”ve been around since April, but for those of you that are reluctant to give in to the reusable tote craze, I think this is the bag for you. With the green movement in full force, there has been an influx of brands that are taking advantage of selling the “fashionable canvas tote.” I believe that this one is actually worth $29.99 because $10 from every bag sold helps provide 100 nutritious meals to hungry school children in Rwanda. These bags are practical, eco-friendly, and, most importantly, for a good cause. Also, I have found that not only do you walk away with a cute reusable shopping bag but a good conscience as well!
The Daily Green
Going green has to start at the roots…of your hair that is! The common thread with the green movement has been to reduce the use of plastic bottles and other non-biodegradable items. I’m starting with my shampoo bottle. Lush and Rawganique are two brands that sell shampoo in bar form, so there is no bottle to dispose of once you’re done! I just purchased The Blonde from Lush, which is just one out of the 11 different shampoos they carry.
Getting Ourselves Back To The Garden (And Park)
[Image via Eccdom]
Yesterday, we woke up with a definite case of the mondays, and to banish the little bugger, we devised the most scenic run our final-ravaged brains could imagine( if you”re interested, we started at Tompkins Square, ran through the rest of the E.Vil and took Houston to the East River Park, and stayed along the East River until it became the Hudson, turned just before pier 40, and came back through Greenwich village). Turns out blossoms and dapply sidewalks work far better than endorphins alone, well enough, in fact, for us to bestow them upon you. Below, we present our top five places to enjoy with the birds and the bees. What are yours?
1.) The garden of Saint Mark”s Church
This one is, we admit, not incredibly sunny, but it”s tranquil, verdant, and you”ll rarely be sharing it with anyone besides Peter Stuyvesant”s skeleton. Plus, the church itself is gorgeous in a classic, New Englandy sort of way. More »
“Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em”
So we just realized, via facebook album titles, that today (well yesterday now), was 4/20. A further reminder of our impending youths. Well, you know what that means? It’s time to pull out “Reefer Madness” for its annual viewing. Such a historic period piece movie. We hope you had a great Sunday, whether you decided to “smoke ‘em out” or not. We will be “going green” on Tuesday instead, for EARTH DAY…an actual ACCREDITED day.
