What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?  According to Shoshana Raskas, the CSA Coordinator at Tierra Miguel, it’s a partnership between eaters and growers in which consumers get to “join in both the risks and abundance of farming.” CSAs allow you to support one farm in particular, tying you to the people, produce and pulse of [...]

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Ever feel like you want to support a cause but don’t want to buy the candy bar that goes with it?  Fundraisers can be serious business as they support extras like dances along with essentials like new playgrounds, school fieldtrips or even the salaries of computer, art and music teachers here in California.
Lisa Olson was [...]

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What started three years ago as a venture between a trio consisting of two brothers and a friend designing and selling furniture on Craigslist has burgeoned indeed.  Now, Viesso is a well-known green furnishings company with a Santa Monica showroom that has delivered sofas to the living and working spaces of the likes of MTV’s [...]

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How can you care about happenings in places you’ve never seen? The reason polar bears are so captivating in the public’s global warming imagination is that though many of us have never seen one in its natural environment, after one glimpse of a white furry giant lollygagging around the ice on camera, how could we [...]

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Who wants to breath into a yoga pose, be it Downward Dog or Pigeon, while sticking her nose into a toxic mat?
So, in honor of Yoga Month, we’ve got two eco-mat options for your yoga practice, no PVC (polyvinyl chloride) or other plastics-standard fare in standard mats-allowed.  With these, you can breathe easy knowing you’re [...]

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