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Nov
23
2011

Sustainable Gift Giving - Part 2: Homemade Deodorant, Lip Balm & Bath Salts

by Jessica Filed in: Products & Services, Random Fun Stuff, Shopping

Part two of our Sustainable Gift Giving workshop focused on making your own gifts. We made a few different body care items, but also talked about ideas around gifts that aren't necessarily a physical thing. Think about gifts of time, effort or skill sharing. Sharing these very personal and thoughtful...

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Nov
17
2011

Sustainable Gift Giving - Part 1: Alternative Gift Wrapping Ideas

by Jessica Filed in: Products & Services, Random Fun Stuff, Shopping, Waste & Recycling

With the holidays quickly sneaking up on us, we held our monthly Healthy Homes Sustainability Series on Sustianable Gift Giving. A workshop focused on gifts that are simple, cost effective and unique, it was an evening filled with and great ideas, lots of smilesand a ton of information presented  so...

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Nov
09
2011

Kensington Street Art

by Jessica Filed in: Community Building, Random Fun Stuff

The other day, James and I were wandering around Kensington, and came across some pretty cute street art. Simple but inspiring sayings with an underlying 'community building' tone- just little tid bits of information to make you stop, think and hopefully act!

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Nov
09
2011

The Story of Broke

by Jessica Filed in: Banking & Investments

A really interesting video on the state of the economy from 'The Story of Stuff' creator, Annie Leonard. Annie will be in Edmonton on Thursday November 17th at 7:00pm for a speaking engagement at the University of Alberta. Sure to be a wonderful evening! For more information, Click HERE.

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Nov
02
2011

Benefits of Clay Paint & Plasters

by Jessica Filed in: Air Quality, Energy

Ashley Lubyk (of 'Ask Ashley' fame) and his wonderful partner, Heather, have a business called Dirt Craft. They offers hands-on natural building workshops, including earth ovens, rocket stoves, small structures and earth plasters. I stumbled upon this video of Ashley talking about the overwhelming benefits of using clay based paints...

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Oct
25
2011

Welcome to our Blog!!

by Jessica Filed in: Random Fun Stuff

Green Calgary is very excited to launch our new blog! Check here regularly for fun articles about cool things happening in our city and in other cities around the world! We will do our best to update this space regularly and fill it with content that everyone will enjoy. In...

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