A Green B&B in Your Own Backyard: I Heart The Queen Anne [Artwork Slideshow!]
by Rachel Znerold on Sep 2, 2009
Who says you have to sacrifice luxury to go green? Can’t you have it all? At Denver’s eco-friendly urban bed and breakfast, The Queen Anne , you can sleep soundly knowing that your high-class experience has a low carbon imprint. Located just minutes from downtown, The Queen Anne
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What’s better, Local or Organic?
by elephantjournal.com on Aug 31, 2009
If I buy a local apple at my farmers’ market that isn’t certified organic, it could be sprayed with chemicals, GMO, what-have-you. So organic’s certainly safer. Still, buying an organic apple that’s been shipped from New Zealand makes me responsible for a helluvalotta food miles, and resultant pollution. So I ask you: what’s better, Local [...]
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Does independent and local media matter, anymore? Re: Huffington Post takes on local web sites in Chicago, Denver.
by Waylon Lewis on Aug 8, 2009
Does independent and/or local media matter, anymore? Is it worth supporting? Huffington Post continues to go after local media markets. People really don’t care about local, independent business. They think they do. But this morning, a colleague at a green-minded, progressive business emailed myself and 20 leading green, LOHAS-style colleagues and said, hey, Huff Post [...]
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The Boulder College of Massage Therapy: Massage for Peace.
by elephantjournal.com on Aug 3, 2009
Boulder College of Massage Therapy, a long time friend and colleague to elephant, is up to some serious good. Below, via BCMT, is the good word on the good deeds they’re doing these days. Their mission for peace combines massage therapy training programs in Dharamsala, India, while also serving communities close to home. You go BCMT! [...]
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Beer Can of the Day: Anthem Branding for Upslope Brewing.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 29, 2009
My ex-photographer Caroline Treadway ordered a keg of Upslope Brewing, a then-brand-new microbrewery, for my New Year’s Bash (literally: broken window, broken dishes) at Hotelephant, my eco-renovated Victorian in downtown Boulder, Colorado. A few months later, a friend brought by a six-pack of Upslope. We drank it. That coulda woulda been the end of that…but [...]
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Urban Outfitters Now Making Fixies: Has this trend gone too far?
by Lindsey Block on Jul 29, 2009
IS IT GOOD OR BAD WHEN BICYCLING BECOMES A FAD? In Brooklyn, New York, the coolest accessory ain’t a car. It’s your “fixie”—fixed gear—bike. Now, they’re being sold through Urban Outfitters, the official purveyor of hipster cool to the masses. When did biking become less about transportation and more about fashion? If this will get [...]
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If you ain’t eating local/organic, when we go “out” to eat we’re usually just eating out of a Sysco truck.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 12, 2009
I always crack up slash break down in tears when I see the above Sysco truck pulling in front of (or, more often, surreptiously/expeditiously behind) fancy, cool “organic and local whenever possible” restaurants in Boulder, Colorado. Excerpt via Slate: Some obvious food trends have helped Sysco’s rise to Wal-Mart-like dominance. In 1970, households spent 34 [...]
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Wanderlust Festival 2009: Yoga Stars. Rock Stars. Under the stars.
by Lindsey Block on Jul 12, 2009
Wanderlust Festival brings you bands to jam to, including Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mates of State, Girl Talk, Spoon, Andrew Bird (whoot, whoot), Broken Social Scene, Sharon Jones… …along with yogis that rock, Anusara’s John Friend, Shiva Rea, Annie Carpenter, and the lovely Elena Brower. In beautiful Lake Tahoe, California, July 24-26, Wanderlust Festival may be the [...]
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Summertime and the living is local
by Todd Mayville on Jun 18, 2009
Living in Colorado is loaded with perks: we have mountains, great weather, a (generally) laid back lifestyle… and some of the best agriculture in the country. This is amazingly evident whenever I visit my local farmers’ market, and with my newest venture into the locavore lifestyle, I become increasingly incredulous that Coloradans would want to [...]
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Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies checks out the White House organic garden. Video.
by Waylon Lewis on Jun 8, 2009
With thanks for the tip to Dave Burdick of Huffington Post GREEN, the “best video tour of the White House organic garden ever”:
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What is Xeriscape? by Boulder Landscape Architect Thomas Rutherford. Photos: Rusty Ralston for elephantjournal.com.
by elephantjournal.com on May 29, 2009
A (Very) Brief History of Xeriscape by Thomas Rutherford, of Mosaic Garden Design in Boulder, Colorado. Photos by Rusty Ralston …of Thomas Rutherford and family installing a Xeriscape landscape at Hotelephant, a “green” renovated Victorian belonging to (the bank and) elephantjournal.com founding editor Waylon Lewis For the sake of clarity, a few small things must [...]
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elephantjournal.com event: June 2: Bizarre Boulder-Nicaragua Event ~ via Joshua Berman.
by elephantjournal.com on May 27, 2009
Nica-’radans Unite! Bizarre Evening in NoBo (Boulder, Colorado) to Help Nicaraguan Children. via Joshua Berman Nicaragua is Central America’s largest and most misunderstood country, but it’s finally shaking off the shadows of its past and entering this brave new global order – which, for better or worse, includes tourism and reality television. To wit: After appearing [...]
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Event: “Spark The Fire” yoga conference, May 29th-31st in Denver, CO.
by elephantjournal.com on May 24, 2009
an elephantjournal.com recommended and sponsored event Denver Yoga Studios are coming together to inspire community and provide support during this era of radically shifting work, life and values. “Spark the Fire – Igniting Yoga and Conscious Community” hopes to draw as many as 1,000 Colorado yoga practitioners to the New Hope Baptist Church in Denver. [...]
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Become a Fan: Boulder County Farmers’ Market. New Facebook Page.
by elephantjournal.com on May 20, 2009
Why would we bother to post about a Facebook page? Because, of course, Facebook is more than a multi-kajillion dollar company that’s hardly making any money at all. Because it’s more than Big Brother with a nice orderly soft blue and white and gray color scheme. Because it’s more than a place to post photos [...]
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Spud Bros + Twitter + Brad Feld = Charity. Video.
by Waylon Lewis on May 3, 2009
People often ask me what twitter is good for. Who needs another geek technology that takes us away from real life, from the outdoors? Well, I too once didn’t get Twitter, I made fun of it, I looked down upon it. And then my hipster web designer pal Sam Breed introduced me to Tweetdeck, and [...]
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Community Cycles in Boulder, Colorado: Letter to the City Council re Bike Path Project.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 21, 2009
Dear Boulder City Council: I am a board member of Community Cycles and am writing you on behalf of our board and the over 700 Boulder residents who are Community Cycles members and have made donations to CC in the past year. We would like to express our thoughts on the proposed 30th Street bike [...]
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The Healing Power of the Subconscious Mind, via Kendra Current.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 17, 2009
Modern science has been cooking up some magic, helping the lay person to understand one’s own healing potential and how symptoms manifest—and just how powerful our mind is in that process. These ideas are the substance and alchemy behind what happens in my work as a healing professional. My job, on some level, is to [...]
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Atlantic Fashion Week Fall 2009: Eco-ethical Fashion is just so damn cool [Danica Olders, Orphanage, Deux fm, Laura Chenowith and more...]
by Anna Gilkerson on Apr 12, 2009
Deux fm reports: Recently a bevy of Atlantic Canadian fashion designers presented their fall 2009 collections to packed audiences at the Olympic Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. About 1/2 of the 17 designers that showed are eco minded in some very different and innovative ways. Each designer has nurtured their own niche following and are [...]
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New York Times on the closing of an Independent Bookstore. Does Local Matter?
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 23, 2009
A great article in the New York Times today—combining great writing, good information, objective reporting and a personal, distinct point of view. Excerpt. …what’s remarkable about the Second Story Book Shop is not that it is closing, but that it hung on for 37 years with the same ownership, begun, as the owner, Joan Ripley, [...]
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Green Media continues to rake in inve$tment dollar$ despite bad economy (translation: continues to sell out).
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 3, 2009
Ecorazzi: Inhabitat takes on 500K of investment, whoop whoop, green media still hot in cold economy! Wait. When will greenies get that this movement ain’t all about eco? That green is simply one great, big, wide open gateway into a thing called living mindfully—that also involves social issues, like fair labor and fair trade, and [...]
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Eco Green Mindful Custom Jewelry, anyone? [Angie Star]
by Waylon Lewis on Feb 23, 2009
I’m not a big jewelry guy, but I have always worn a ‘protection cord’ (red string that is given in Buddhist tradition by one’s teacher as a sort of reminder and blessing to be ‘awake’ and present), a thin light Italian-style necklace with a couple little doodads on it, and a pinky ring (in the [...]
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Michelle Obama on Garden at the White House. Video.
by Waylon Lewis on Feb 21, 2009
Here’s a little Change we Can Eat Up! With thanks for the tip to Lilia Justman. If above doesn’t play, try the below vid or click here (Washington Post video embedding doesn’t seem to be working):
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Boston: organic, fair-trade produce veggie delivery service.
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 16, 2009
Eschewing exotic fruits shipped from far away, some of his customers were developing a preference for locally grown food, and Barry, who sells a variety of produce boxes directly to consumers, decided to jump on the bandwagon. In late December, he launched the “dogma box” a crate containing seasonal produce sourced as close to Boston [...]
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Nasi Goreng: An easy Indonesian style dish for a busy lifestyle [Anna's cooking at home series "The Quick and Tasty"#1]
by Anna Gilkerson on Feb 5, 2009
Cooking can be fun and rewarding when challenging yourself to a meal with lots of ingredients that you may not know all the names of. Cooking on a regular basis seems much more
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The Kitchen: on Pearl Street, in Boulder, Colorado, you’ll find “the greenest restaurant in the West.”
by Waylon Lewis on Jan 9, 2009
Update: Ran into Hugo Matheson, a longtime friend and the man and vision behind much of the greatness that has been The Kitchen over the last five years. We had a great talk about the below “editor’s note,” he was understandably a little disappointed, and sought to remind me that The Kitchen really strives to [...]
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Real food for school lunches? ~via Laura Ruby. [Ann Cooper, Growe Foundation]
by elephantjournal dotcom on Dec 19, 2008
Do you know what your kid (or niece, nephew, or neighbor) had for lunch at school this week? Living in what many consider one of the most eco and green towns in the country (yes, Boulder, Colorado), I might expect something involving a salad, a little fresh fruit, Horizon organic milk and a tempeh burger. [...]
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elephant journal goes NYC: A Locally-Owned Food/Drink Hit List.
by Rusty Ralston on Oct 13, 2008
Let’s face it, no one has the time to research restaurants before a trip…it’s time consuming and requires a bit of detective work. Well, this is where we come into play…to give you Rusty’s NYC Food & Drink Guide. The great thing about New York City, is that eating at non-chain restaurants is a requirement. [...]
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Gelato Bacio
by elephantjournal dotcom on Oct 7, 2008
The Single Source Scoop Recently, I sat down with David Cohen, the owner of the successful and always-packed Spruce Confections (famous scones, coffee, etc, etc) to talk about his latest venture, Gelato Bacio (no website!! Can you believe it?). Cohen has been in business in Boulder for over 15 glorious years (the gelato shop only since [...]
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The Bozeman, Montana Food Coop: A Shining Star in the Last Best Place [Video]
by elephantjournal dotcom on Sep 11, 2008
I spent the best years of undergrad learning and recreating in the southwest corner of Montana – truly the last best place. Even better: I lived seconds from the Bozeman Coop (and those Bridger Peak Cookies…)
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If you eat Meat, you’re not an Environmentalist. I’m just Saying. (Cow Farts vs. SUVs]
by Waylon Lewis on Sep 9, 2008
If you eat meat, it
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Homelessness
by Michael Levin on Sep 8, 2008
“Hope is the thing with feathers,
that perches in the soul,
and sings the song without the words,
and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson
I spent a day in the garden. Spring had yielded many wonderful and delicious vegetables. But the summer had given me weeds that needed tending. My patch is in a community garden frequently visited by homeless people who forage for food. Eachtime I talk with a homeless person, I’m reminded that no one wakes up one day and decides it’s a good idea to start begging for money and food on the streets. I had to cut my weeding time short because we have no facilities to wash or relieve ourselves at the garden. I thought to myself what it would be like to be in a situation where there was no place for me to clean up. It would be tough to rely on public facilities for soap and water.
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The death of Boulder, Colorado’s last dairy farm: Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy no longer local; sells off its goats.
by Waylon Lewis on Sep 6, 2008
I’m (not particularly) a Local. Oh, don’t you worry, you can still find Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy‘s incredible Peak, Red Cloud, Snowdrop, Queso de Mano, chevre and other cheeses—but they’re now shipping in their goat milk, founder Jim Schott (who we profiled back in the day) is on the board, no longer in the field, [...]
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Every $ you and I spend strengthens Big Boxes…or Independent Businesses, it’s up to us. [T Bar]
by Waylon Lewis on Sep 6, 2008
[Here's Part I] Last Wednesday, I was buying my local piece of dead cow for my Humane Society rescue mutt, Redford, when I ran three friends who work with three big LOHAS businesses, all of whom have a great match in elephant’s readership but who have decided to advertise in mass media, corporate-owned, franchise publications [...]
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Why Shop Local? Local businesses return 80% of each dollar to the community: Sylvia Wyant.
by elephantjournal dotcom on Sep 2, 2008
“The Chains That Bind” via Sylvia Wyant, from the Spring 2006 issue. Shopping local and independent sounds nice, but we Americans like to save a buck. We like convenience. And, judging from the proliferation of big box chains, we like consistency. So why go out of our way to ‘shop-local-first’? It goes like this
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Dirty Money: How much does your state rep accept from the coal industry?
by Merete Mueller on Aug 14, 2008
On this site, you can search by zip code to see exactly how much moolah each state rep accepts from the coal industry. Why do we care?
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Review: King Corn
by Todd Mayville on Jul 27, 2008
King Corn is one of those movies that makes me very, very glad that I shop my local farmers’ market, and that I eat organic as much as I can. The movie is about two young men who decide to grow an acre of corn and follow it to find out how we’ve ended up [...]
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Slow Food not “just one big wine tasting with really hard to find cheeses that you weren’t invited to.”
by Merete Mueller on Jul 24, 2008
When I was little, I lived in an apartment with no back yard. But one summer, my mom made friends with the older woman who lived in a house next to our building. Since Mrs. Smith was too old to tend to her over-run garden, my mom volunteered to take it over, and we spent [...]
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Wendell Berry: Why Small Farms and Strong Communities Still Matter
by Merete Mueller on Jul 3, 2008
The Sun has long been one of my favorite independent magazines. Not only have they remained independent for over 35 years, but they’ve done so based solely on contributions and subscription sales—they stopped printing advertisements in 1990. Their feature interview with farmer, poet, activist and ele-idol Wendell Berry gets to the root of why “local” [...]
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ele-Approved Event: Family Farming Photos
by Merete Mueller on Jul 2, 2008
Zweck’s Farm, on the edge of Longmont, Colorado, is one of those few lucky family farms that have made it through a century of industrial consolidation and is still going strong and is now flourishing with America’s renewed interest in local and organic food. Photographer Jane Gabrilove has documented the farm’s bounty in an exhibit [...]
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3rd Annual Benefit Dinner for the Buffalo
by elephantjournal dotcom on Apr 9, 2008
Event Location: Gold Lake Resort, 3371 Gold Lake Rd, Ward, Co 80481 Event Price: Suggested Donation $100/ sliding scale available Event Details: Join the Buffalo Field Campaign (www.buffalofieldcampaign.org) and Gold Lake Resort (www.goldlake.com) for an elegant 3 course dinner with paired wines and beers, a silent auction featuring local artists and bussinesses, live music and [...]
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Time for fresh veggies, and your local C.S.A.!
by Merete Mueller on Apr 2, 2008
In Boulder, it snowed a few days ago, but today it’s 65 degrees and the automatic sprinklers on the downtown Pearl Street Mall are already nursing tulip and daffofils to life. To go along with the change in seasons, I’ve found myself craving spinach salads and strawberries and fresh greens. Which means—it’s almost time for [...]
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On “Green Money” ~ Boulder Valley Credit Union.
by elephantjournal dotcom on Mar 24, 2008
Click here for diff between Credit Unions and banks. The phone rang. On the other end was a credit union colleague I’d never met, from a small town in Oregon. She was eager to speak with us-she’d heard that we were one of the foremost leaders of the green movement in the nation among credit [...]
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