Go Green EXPO Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Convention Center hosts the Go Green Expo January 23rd to 25th, launching a four city tour. Exhibitors will feature the latest in energy efficient and environmentally friendly products and services. CTNgreen is a Sponsor at Booth 505, and Neal Gray with the CTNgreen Team will have HD video cameras ready for Interviews and some of our classic CTNgreen Q&A stuff… of course our CTN Green Magazine Cover is Mariel Hemingway, in the spotlight for her new Wellness books and websites.

Take a sneak peek at the next issue, check out our coverage of the fantastic new Film: “FUEL” ( Fields of Fuel ) by Josh Tickell. Movie Clips Read more

Organic Textiles – Growth in a Down Economy

Commentary by Ed Mass, President and Founder

www.YesItsOrganic.com
We’ll look at some numbers in a second but first some personal experience. I have an online store for organic, fair labor, and eco friendly goods including clothing, bedding, and other organic and eco textiles. During the fall holiday season of 2008 several of my suppliers actually ran out of stock.

CTNGREEN MAGAZINE ARTICLE: http://ctngreen.com/2009/jan/?page=40

Okay, you may be thinking they didn’t do a good job of calculating how much they’d need. Here’s the rub Read more

Fashion by Rachel Sarnoff from Eco Stiletto

Ready to fall in love? We’re head over heels for these ridiculously hot ankle boots, which are to footwear what Robert Pattinson is to the rest of the male species. Called the Nadia, the boots are part of the Sui Generis by Beyond Skin collection. They’re ethically produced in the U.K. and totally vegan, made from linen-look organic hemp on the outside and metallic faux leather on the inside.

Read more

TAR and Feather - TARP

Rachel has one of the few shows where the comminucation skill is right where the rubber hits the road.

Basically the NeoCon Repubicans not only think the free market should be left alone, but that OUR money loaned off a near zero interest to banks, should be free of accountability. Literally Raiding the Treasury at the final moments of thier control.

worth the watch:

SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE WINS FOUR GOLDEN GLOBES

The West Coast Launch of Hollywood Clout!

Hosted by: Air America, KTLK (1150AM), Falcon Restaurant &  “CLOUT! with Richard Greene”
Celebrating the Inauguration of Barack Obama and the launch of a new series of Air America Radio. “Hollywood CLOUT”, daily on “CLOUT! with Richard Greene” www.airamerica.com Read more

Going Paperless… ?

R.I.P. PLENTY MAGAZINE
Alas , true indie paper pubs, be they recycled fibers or not, are dissappearing at a stuning rate. We got the news through elephant journal, themselves a recently gone paperless publication, and they got the news through our friends at ecorazzi who got the news from Gawker. Its not that bad news travels fast, its that the web travels fast.

– bottom line, there are a lot fewer indie-green printrags out there on the stands now. Virtualization shall rule: web-enabled work appears to run the economy of cost-effective pub media for 2009.

CTN has always been targeting the best-of virtual mag marketspace, but we never felt competitive at all with our friends at other sites and print pubs… they are all dedicated smart and very sincere people well worth having around. 
but it looks like …

Read more

FREECYCLE

So you really still have that old computer sitting in the corner or under the desk and know its time to heave that stuff out, but cant quite take the landfill outcome that produces… and besides it still works. You are not alone.
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,662 groups with 6,302,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

Read more

META EFFICIENT

LED Lights: Efficient Indoor Growing

LED grow lights are a good choice if you are interested in growing indoors without a lot of hassle. Traditional grow lights generate a lot of heat and use large amounts of electricity, which raises your monthly electric bill by noticeable amounts. These LED grow lights stay cool, and use only a minuscule amount of energy. Each “SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light” uses less than 2 watts of power. They are designed and optimized for plant growth, not human vision. They produce only red and blue light which the plants can use.
Read more

Six Tried-and-True Strategies

for Inspiring Environmental Change

Many workers view sustainable practices as one more thing to add to an already overburdened workload - proof positive that their managers aren’t communicating on this issue as effectively as they could. John Marshall Roberts, strategic communications consultant at Evenson Design Group, takes a practical look at the art of inspired leadership. 

Many business leaders find it challenging to lead others on the path to sustainability - and not necessarily because they’re working with a tough audience (although that happens too). Rather the trouble lies in their inability to communicate in way that generates real-world action and measurable results. But certain individuals seem to have cracked the code - they ve figured out how to turn environmental conversations into sustainable changes for their companies, and for the environment.

What exactly are these leaders doing differently, and how can we learn from them? I spoke to a few and came up with the following six tried-and-true principles. 

Read more

Next Page »