FebruaryFeb 11 Wednesday 09
Share Your Successes with postCarbon
photo: still from Planit video
GOforChange invites you to participate in a fun new project.
What is the best thing are you doing to lower your carbon footprint or have a lighter impact on the planet? -- OR -- What would you do if you could do anything?
Drop us a …
FebruaryFeb 5 Thursday 09
That's Not a Green Job!
photo: arranged by Julie
Brad Heavner at Environment Maryland just sent us this email:
This is not the type of "green job" I want to create through President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. The big coal companies want to build factories -- factories …
JanuaryJan 29 Thursday 09
Recycled Glass is Limitless
photo: unknown
According to one source, the late 1960's was the first time glass manufacturers established collection centers where people could return empty bottles, jars, and other types of glass containers. These were recycled by breaking up the glass and then …
JanuaryJan 27 Tuesday 09
16 Practical Tips for Saving Energy at Home
drawings by Alyssa Dennis
One of my favorite clients sent out long list of energy-saving tips after spending close to a year shaving her family's energy use. Violaine Melancon is a musician who cares deeply about the environment and she got bitten by the energy …
JanuaryJan 23 Friday 09
Why Free Range Eggs Are Better For You
The egg has been an important part of our diet for centuries. Hens have been domesticated in Europe since 600 B.C. and were probably first brought to the New World by Columbus in 1493. Offering 13 essential nutrients, it's no wonder the egg has remained a staple for …
JanuaryJan 18 Sunday 09
Martin Luther King Day Musings
photo courtesy Parks & People Foundation
In honor of Martin Luther King Day and the upcoming Inauguration , the Baltimore Shambhala Center sent out some quotes as a contemplative conversation. I have chosen my five favorites and offer them to visitors of GOforChange. …
JanuaryJan 13 Tuesday 09
Poster Restoration
photo by: alyssa
The Poster Restoration Company has been specializing in archival canvas mounting and paper restoration of vintage, prints, posters and lobby cards for over 20 years. Owner Sei Peterson, a musician and artist in his own right, is a master of his craft …
JanuaryJan 6 Tuesday 09
GO: Where Change Agents Come for Inspiration
photo by Kristina McDanolds
On New Year's Day, we received an email from our good friend, Michael Furbish, who owns the Furbish Company , a green builder whose work we have profiled recently . They are clear about their mission on their website: "Furbish Company …
DecemberDec 30 Tuesday 08
We're Going to Blogging School
photo by Julie: Lucky's Warehouse by Furbish Co.
Recently, we started in earnest to learn all we can about the blogging world, including how to increase our site traffic so we can continue to offer GOforChange to our community and the wider world. Naturally, we enrolled …
DecemberDec 29 Monday 08
Baltimore Treasures
photo by: alyssa
A couple of years ago, I worked for a Poster Restoration Company and walked passed this impressive fence design every day. I knew nothing of its creator, but could tell that the posts are made from chunks of salvaged concrete. Natural builders have …
DecemberDec 23 Tuesday 08
Collective Cry
photo by: Fred Scharmen
Collective Cry is an online community of artists, activists and allies of social justice. They are dedicated to uplifting and providing healing to systemically oppressed communities through education, community development, economic development …
Playing for Change
Take 5 minutes in your day to watch this. It is one of the most beautiful and hopeful things I've seen in a while. What an amazing group of people. As their website says, Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to …
EPA: Maryland
The Environmental Protection Agency has a way for you type in your area code and keep tabs on what businesses have regulations on pollution, hazardous waste sites, and other regulatory information. It's called Envirofacts
Stretch Your Body and Your Mind at the Bikram Yoga and Wellness Center
Founder and Director Sarah Ittmann teaches Bikram yoga . A series of 26 poses derived from Hatha principles, each one is done twice to help the body open up and come into openness and alignment. Bikram Choudhury designed these poses in his native India after a …
Collective Cry
photo by: Fred Scharmen
Collective Cry is an online community of artists, activists and allies of social justice. They are dedicated to uplifting and providing healing to systemically oppressed communities through education, community development, economic development …
ISky working for local solutions to global concerns
photo: unknown
ISky was created in 2007. With its offices located in Takoma Park, Maryland, 1Sky is helping raise the bar for leadership on climate change action in the context of the 2008 elections and the new Obama Administration. Their goal is to "create bold federal …
Edible Eco-Flooring!!?
Chris Moline, a Residential Group Manager of Carpet One Flooring of Alexandria Virginia ate a piece of Marmoleum yesterday afternoon to prove its truly green properties. Lets just hope its durability doesn't complicate his digestive system, hmm....let me know how that …
SpringField Farm Redux
photos courtesy of: Springfield Farms
Remember Springfield Farm ? We wrote a post about them almost a year ago now. One of our CollectiveX members went for a visit a couple weeks ago in search of free range organic meat and wanted to tell us about her encouraging …
The Clean Coal "?": March On March 2nd
photos courtesy of: GreenPeace
Dear Friends,
There are moments in a nation's--and a planet's--history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction. We think such a time …
What I Have Learned About Learning from Experience
photo: sketch by Julie Gabrielli
When I was a brand-new parent, my friend Mara O'Connell gave me the best advice I've gotten in my life. I confessed to her how overwhelmed I felt with the responsibility of caring for such a precious, helpless creature. I had so much to …