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23
2011
Sustainable Gift Giving - Part 2: Homemade Deodorant, Lip Balm & Bath Salts
by Jessica Filed in: Products & Services, Random Fun Stuff, ShoppingPart 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...
17
2011
Sustainable Gift Giving - Part 1: Alternative Gift Wrapping Ideas
by Jessica Filed in: Products & Services, Random Fun Stuff, Shopping, Waste & RecyclingWith 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...
09
2011
Kensington Street Art
by Jessica Filed in: Community Building, Random Fun StuffThe 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!
09
2011
The Story of Broke
by Jessica Filed in: Banking & InvestmentsA 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.
02
2011
Benefits of Clay Paint & Plasters
by Jessica Filed in: Air Quality, EnergyAshley 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...
25
2011
Welcome to our Blog!!
by Jessica Filed in: Random Fun StuffGreen 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...