Grocery Store Seafood Sustainability Scorecard

Excellent report by Greenpeace will help you choose the stores you can support and the fish you can avoid to prevent further destruction of our oceans.

Supermarkets feed the growing appetite for seafood and ring up approximately $16 billion each year in seafood sales. Consumers buy half their seafood at supermarkets, yet as their report reveals, few supermarkets meet this consumer demand with any regard for the marine environment.

See how your local supermarkets stack up in their scorecards. Explore the fish species on their red list and learn why they are in trouble.

As a consumer, you can help support seafood sustainability and ocean protection.

The full report can be downloaded here.

More information here.

They take a very strong stance against Trader Joe’s that you can see here.

Another entry on our blog from the Monterey Bay Aquarium which provides a pocket guide here.

Earthship Seminar ~ Building Homes Out Of Trash

This past weekend was spent at a seminar learning how to build sustainable, off-the-grid homes at the Earthship headquarters just outside of Taos, New Mexico.

The homes are not the run of the mill green homes that we are getting used to. Architect Mike Reynolds has been building these structures for about 40 years and they are, in large part, made out of trash – specifically used tires, cans, and bottles.

Since he started back in the 1970s, the homes have been refined to allow for recycling all waste [grey and black water], organic greenhouses, water collection and purification, power generation, and temperature regulation….even in extreme weather locations.

We got hands on experience learning how to pack tires into the load bearing and thermal mass foundation for the homes, can and bottle walls, and how to plaster interior walls with a mixture of mud, sand, and hay. In addition, we got to tour many of the homes on the site in Taos. Mike has developed several models over the years and we were able to get inside and explore the size and benefits of each option.

I recommend anyone interested in green build to visit them and take the seminar. You can find more information here. A good article here. And the trailer for the Michael Reynold’s documentary, Garbage Warrior is here.

Many more photos here.

ABC, Easy As 123

Paying respects to Michael Jackson. Forgot how much his music was a part of our lives…..we’ve been dancing all morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfVyBtuYWY&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bc2RuUKcsM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hz2am90Hk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl2Pm9-7Vk

Hendrickson Logo Gets Chosen For Logo Lounge Book!

Our Hendrickson Logo has been chosen to be featured in the first edition of the brand-new LogoLounge Master Library series titled “Initials & Crests”.

The lead designer on the project was Tricia Hamon. We could NOT be more excited.

The release date for the new book is February 2010.

Create A Store, Sell Stuff

Propell is a website program that allows you to build a store and sell merchandise. They target schools, groups, and non-profits. We’ve been helping to develop their marketing plan, designing graphics for their home page, and doing some competitor testing. Not only has the project been fun but we’re excited about the company’s mission. To give organizations a significant tool to generate more fundraising. Here are some banner ads we just finished up. Lots more to come!

Square Bike

Why not?

Consumers want healthier foods and better packaging

According to a new study of 1000 consumers in several counties conducted by Ipsos Marketing, Consumer Goods, the top three things consumers want from food manufacturers are: fresher ingredients, increased health benefits, and more environmentally friendly packaging.

More information here at 2sustain.com

Children’s Choice

The mission of Children’s Choice is about more than just feeding children. It’s to lay the groundwork for a nutritionally responsible lifestyle by providing wholesome foods to fuel school children and educating & empowering them to make healthy choices.

We couldn’t be happier to bring them in as a new client. Not only do they have a great, healthy, and sustainable product….they are really smart people, too. You gotta love working for a group who knows who they are and where they are going.

I see big things happening for this company.

Here’s our first [albeit quick] project. We developed a postcard that will be included in the welcome packets for the new school year. The card was printed by Modern Postcard.

Roadrunner Shower Head.

installed this shower head today.

$246 yearly utility savings.
8218 gallons yearly water savings.
2 months payback time.
nuf said.

from evolve.

Worm Poop

Look what the worms did. The bottom layer of the compost container is ready for the garden. It’s our first harvest and we’re feeling very proud. I wish I could give them all little noogies. Good little worms.