Raising my boys on healthy doses of competitive sports over the years, I have had many opportunities to talk about what it means to have a game feel fair, regardless of win or loss. Teaching young players a healthy respect for their teammates, their opponents and the opportunity to do their best is what most [...]

It’s officially spring for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, which means that this weekend it is also the time of the year in which many people all over the world will be celebrating the Christian tradition of Easter. However STOP! Before you all gorge on chocolate Easter eggs (vegan, fair-trade & organic [...]

I have been real busy these days – amongst several projects I am making an entrepreneurial green kit together with a group of mighty fine ladies from Morgendagens Heltinder (a danish business women network). So far we are in the process of making a giant brainstorm meeting with green experts from all over Denmark. Our [...]

Time flies! On March 20th it will officially be the start of spring, thus I thought it best to finally provide you all with a detailed update of my New Year Green Pledges which I first wrote about in the post titled Belated new year greetings and green pledges. I would like to highlight that I am [...]

The battle against the violations of animal rights its not that evident, even among “green” activist groups of today. If we look at today’s activist groups, we consider it normal for them to be against sexism, racism, capitalism, the consumer society, the army, nuclear energy, environmental pollution, etc. But why isn’t it normal that the [...]

This is my final instalment of articles about our experiences at Make Hay of working to be a green and ethical company. This article is related to my previous posts where I talked about using ethical suppliers and encouraging others with your ethical policy. Just to recap, the previous articles were: Part 1 – Powered [...]

Having friends over to celebrate Earth Day and don’t know what to serve?  Let Earth Dinner help you plan your meal for your family or your community. This event was started three years ago by America’s largerst collective of organic farmers: Organic Valley, to honor Earth Day with it’s own special meal.  This is akin [...]

This morning at the ECO:nomics conference being held here in California Lee Scott Jr., president and CEO of the retail giant Wal-Mart announced “We are not green”!  I shrug my shoulders and say tell me something I didn’t already know, to others this has been headline news. I’m not a fan of the store and [...]

To say our housing market is in a slump is like saying Hurricane Katrina was just a few heavy winds!  It’s bad.  So what are home builders doing to attract buyers, they are “greening” their inventory.  Because we all know that green is the hot buzz word of the day and put eco in front [...]

Yep, back again to Brighton is the Fashion Made Fair sample sale – much too good (in both the ethical and fashion sense!) to be missed… From Friday to Sunday come along to Fabrica to take your pick of the best fair trade and ethical fashion. They’ve got howies, People Tree, Kuyuchi, Terra Plana, Tonic [...]