Happy weekend, readers! Tonight we're at Linden Hills Co-Op until 6pm demo-ing Stash Tea and Wholesome Sweeteners Honey. That's right, freebies! Stop by.
This week on ecometro.com:
- As always, our weekly calendar of events including a circus, careers in renewable energy, and a nutritious cooking class.
- Gardening Project #1: Eating From Your Yard
- Gardening Project #2: Foster a Native
- Our cargo bike riding dad encounters a mom who won't let him bring her kid back by bicycle in Play Dates and Bikes: Would You Let Your Kid Come Over By Bike?
- Beware poorly manufactured CFLs
- Mother Jones Magazine is totally over locavores, like, omg, in 'Spoiled: Organic and Local is So 2008'. We ask, Must Sustainable Practices Bend, to Survive the Financial Storm?
- A super Sameunderneath Online Sale, an eco clothing line with especially fabulous coats and hip organic cotton trousers for men (hard to find, believe us).
- Innovative thinking on the designers role in sustainability RT @inhabitat The 2009 Compostmodern Conference
- Our newsletter is out with new coupons, gardening advice, tips on growing your food. Sign up at upper right.
- Green Trends: The Chanel Segway, Bicycle, and Bejewelled Pant Clip. Why I'm Pro Bling for Bikes.
- Thinking of joining a CSA? Here's our interview from 2008 with Fresh Earth Farms CSA and his recipe for greek salad