Tag Archive for the term: eco

I was very pleased last year when I went to a product management meeting at Sony BMG Canada with MC Mario (yes, I work with MC Mario, he’s actually pretty cool) where the product reps revealed a new digipak entirely made of potato starch, meaning you can actually stick it in your compost bin when [...]

We’re busy making CDs and tapes in preparation for our label showcase on Thursday (in two days). Here are some photos of us putting together the cases. We’re waiting for a shipment of 200 blank printable CDs (from a company that, turns out, has bad customer reviews and may have taken our money and run. [...]

Adbusters is in court today in Canada fighting for the air waves as public space, here’s a quick sum up of why:
For those of you not quite up to speed, here’s the gist: After over a decade of having our consumer-awareness TV spots rejected by just about every major commercial broadcaster in North America (often [...]

What do you get when you collect writing from a Minnesota mother and wife, a professor of law at Boston University, a German-born scientist, a former resident of the Soviet Union, a former Peace Corps volunteer, an MFA student at NYU, a contributing writer to The Morning News, among others, and you add some stuff [...]

Remember I mentioned the public art garden making going down last weekend here in Mile End, Montreal, to symbolically claim a neighborhood field? Well here are photos of the gesture, looking lovely against the first snow, and notes on the progress of the project. I’ve also attached a recording by a local peace loving band, [...]

 
In the spirit of highlighting new stores in Mile End, here’s the word on the Hanneman Design/EcoDarling store on Villeneuve that opened this fall. The owners have been superbusy getting the store ready and the Official Opening Party is December 4th from 5-8 at the store, which is located at 69 Villeneuve, between St. Urbain and St. Laurent. If [...]

Those of us who consider ourselves eco-conscious generally spend a lot of time thinking about the environmental costs of things like transportation, agriculture, and energy production. But what about the environmental costs of art? Ottawa artist Stefan Thompson brings our attention to the environmental impact of conventional artistic materials in his new Earth-Paint [...]

Just in time for the global warmed autumn of 2007. Make like a tree in this hot new design from Project Transaction. Printed on American Apparel. Always fresh and eco-friendly.
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Yes, this is a post about Environment for Blog Action Day. You’ll see, I’m getting there.
Following Radiohead’s Pay-What-You-Can move for In Rainbows I’ve been witness to some interesting debates. Many musicians I know have been celebrating. Because Radiohead’s servers have been overloaded, many people have been publicly circulating versions of the album on [...]

What a Mess this month made! This was our first experiment co-producing a MonthlyMess, which we did with the Mile End Friperie Wa’ou launching the owners first full Fall/Winter and Halloween collection.

Celine Vautour, Wa’ou designer and second hand store owner, already had a lot of ideas and the venue booked, Parc des Princes, when she [...]