Making zero-waste look good with clean green branding and a high-fashion recycled runway show at Pacific Centre in Vancouver
Bringing a Sense of Fashion to Zero Waste (and we’re not talking dress size)
November 25th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Art · Green Creative · Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Lifestyle · Sustainable Products · Unicycle Case Studies
Manufacture local, sell global, shred in your own backyard.
November 2nd, 2011 · No Comments
Local brand, Prior Skis and Snowboards, has a sustainability story to tell that could resonate around the globe.
Tags: Production · Social Media · Strategic Alliances · Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Lifestyle · Sustainable Products
How can you share your green achievements and still stay humble? Here are four ideas.
May 5th, 2011 · No Comments
How you can write about your green successes without bragging.
Tags: Green Creative · Social Media · Sustainable Businesses
iPhone Pic of the Week
December 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Just ignore those pesky global issues and keep spending like a good little shopper.. – Post From My iPhone
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IPhone Pic of the Week
December 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
The horror of Christmas Shopping… – Post From My iPhone
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Business for Bikes Celebrates Hornby Bike Lane in the dark.
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments
It takes a special kind if cyclist to venture out in the cold and rain in December just for the fun of it. But there was more to this small ride than just the hot chocolate at the end. The focus of Business for Bikes is to show the corporate world that supporting cycling makes [...]
Tags: Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Lifestyle
EPIC 2010 Show a feast of green marketing roughage.
June 9th, 2010 · No Comments
This year I attended the EPIC Vancouver Sustainable Living Show as an exhibitor (with two clients) as well as a blogger, shopper and beer sampler. There were brand and product concepts aplenty, offering a creative marketing boost as well as a feeling of genuine entrepreneurial optimism. Sure, the usual flock of ‘green’ graphics were on [...]
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The Metro Vancouver Food Eco-Certification Breakfast Showdown.
March 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
OK, it wasn’t called that. But as my second green business shmooze in 12 hours, (see Power Plant event blog, below) I was bleary stumbling into this 7:30am Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast on food certification. Balancing a cup of BCIT coffee, 2 preservative-laced danishes and a Happy Planet juice, I took notes as best I [...]
Tags: Green Creative · Green Points of View · Green Politics · Research · Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Lifestyle · Sustainable Products
Feeling green? There’s an app for that.
February 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments
I must say, since getting an iPhone, a day doesn’t go by where I don’t discover (or at least imagine) a new way to use the crazy thing. Sure, it may just be flicking a virtual zero-carbon Zippo lighter for cheap effect at a concert. Then again, it may be an app that lets me [...]
Tags: Sustainable Businesses · Sustainable Lifestyle · Sustainable Products
‘Local-Washing’ BC Wineries get caught red-handed. And there’s a lesson for all businesses here.
October 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Newspapers, blogs and on-line articles were alight last week with the rapidly-maturing story of how large wineries got caught selling wine made from imported grapes in the ‘BC Wines’ or ‘Canadian Wines’ section of the liquor store. The three winemakers, including the Ontario companies that make Peller Estates and Jackson Triggs, have been under fire [...]
