EcoMetro

Lights Out Lunch in Denver The concept is simple: turn out your lights at lunchtime for one hour. Wed, Dec 11, 12-1pm Denver Sustainable Greenhouse Design Penn and Cord Parmenter are high-altitude food growers who will show you how to build a greenhouse that needs no supplemental heating year round....

Snow Night Kids 12 and under get a chance to experience a "White Christmas," featuring a snow play area. Food donation required. Thu, Dec 10, 5-8pm Pacific Ave and Cooper St, Downtown Santa Cruz Holiday Gift Faire Select holiday gifts from a large variety of nature-oriented items. Includes...

The first step in protecting the environment you live in is recognizing the impact your daily activities have on that environment. For energy – the focus of THIS SPACE – that means identifying all the ways you use electricity and sorting out the good from the not-so-good and the flat out waste. Getting...

A new home eco store is opening, run by the Oregon Center for Environmental Health and stocked with goods such as glass bottles (with no bisphenol A), hemp shower curtains, and our personal favorite: laptop lunchboxes! Proceeds support the center's goal to eliminate toxic pollutants through community...

That’s right, Mother’s Day is right around the corner. If you are like me, you want to remember and honor your Mom, but maybe you just don’t know how to go about it? I think most Mothers are trying to downsize their piles of THINGS and minimize their trips to the Goodwill. Who wants more frivolous, random...

There is currently a distinct alternative/allopathic divide in my household. The kids and I are battling the first big bad cold of the winter, and using very different forms of treatment. Some of it isn’t different. Everyone is wearing pajamas and has tea and juice, but the children are on a variety...

While I might grow my own microgreens, buy Country Natural Beef, and gallons of lavender oil, the truth is that I’m sort-of tense most of the time. In periodic efforts to counter this, I read New Age publications. I suppose I am hoping that in between the ads offering colonic hygiene and protection from...

I’m no doctor, nor would I suggest that anyone even listen to my opinion on anything, but I do know that shooting up my kids with a mercury-based preservative does not sound like a good idea. And I’m willing to risk the flu for it. The children and I were just in for my daughter’s eye appointment at...

I finally had a chance to drop in to Goods for the Planet , a kind of mercantile for greenies. I really liked it! In terms of their products, they begin where PCC leaves off. I really appreciate that they offer very practical goods, which they have pre-screened for enviro bonafides. It’s nice to be in...

This is the time of year when I see almost everyone as a potential health hazard. My husband, who rides Tri-Met on the days he doesn’t cycle, has grown used to my looks of distaste if he doesn’t wash up before touching me or the kids after coming home (all those people with their moist germy hands squeezing...