Monthly Archives: July 2010

Building An Emerald City | Ruby Slippers Optional

Building an emerald city doesn’t take a Wizard but it does take a few vital cues from the Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow, as I learned from our dynamic panelists, at our July ELUG*, not the least of which are courage, passion and knowledge. Lucia Athens, Sustainable Futures Strategist at CollinsWoerman Architects, nationally recognized speaker,

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Greening Up | Back-to-School

This weekend, I happened to go with my kids to a big box retail store and we stumbled on the Back-to-School section. This always brings back great childhood memories for me. Looking at the plethora of new pens, pencils, markers, backpacks, notebooks, etc., it struck me that maybe there were ways to green up this

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My Green Lesson Plan|East Coast Education

Included in my recent travels to the Northeast from the Pacific Northwest were visits with my 13-year-old twin boys to some fabulous institutions of higher learning: Harvard, Yale, MIT, Parsons New School for Design and Pratt Institute. Wearing both my mom and my green hats, I felt like a “mystery shopper” of sorts as I

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