Austin-based visual artist, Nick Blaine, has joined forces with The Great Outdoors Garden Center to create a window display for Therapy featuring an array of live greenery — graffiti using moss, suspended air plants, & more! Beautiful & alive — you can’t really beat that!!
pix to come soon…
The latest addition to ECO-STYLE 2008:
reps from DIESELGREEN FUELS will be on hand showing off a 1984 Mercedes and 2004 VW Golf, both converted to run on used cooking oil. They’ll be able to provide you with information on using biodiesel and vegetable oil as fuels instead of petroleum oil imported from the Middle East.
Last week, New York City took a giant step forward in the fight against plastic. New York’s City Council passed a bill requiring large stores and retail chains to collect and recycle plastic shopping bags. According to a New York Times report: “New York is by far the largest American city to enact so broad a measure to limit the environmental impact of the bags. Altogether, each year the country is estimated to use 86 billion bags, which end up blowing down city streets, or tangled in the stomachs of whales, sea turtles and birds, or buried in landfills where they enjoy free rent for 1,000 years.”
Other cities like Melbourne and San Francisco have banned bags outright. San Francisco was the first city in North America to ban non-recyclable and non-biodegradable bags made from petroleum products. Africa has moved toward a continent-wide plastic bag ban, and just last week, China’s cabinet issued a directive banning their production, prohibiting stores from handing out free plastic bags after June 1st and imposing fees on their usage. People in China use up to 3 billion plastic bags daily! Help keep the momentum going here in the United States and just say no to plastic bags!