your daily dose of green
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Eat Anywhere: Good Pho You
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
YOGA <<< important stuff, people!
The District's troubled juvenile justice agency is looking for a yoga teacher, or maybe a tai-chi instructor, to work with some of the city's most dangerous youths. The idea for the new Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services programming comes from interim deputy director Barry Holman. Late last month, Holman e-mailed the agency's staff to see if they have "hidden talents that might be tapped to further our work with the young people in our care." In the e-mail obtained by The Washington Examiner, Holman said his primary interest was in finding among the staff an instructor certified in yoga, tai-chi, or another "mind-body connection discipline."
With national unemployment just below 10 percent, $20 yoga classes don't qualify as necessities for many out-of-work people who've pruned luxuries from their budgets. So in a gesture that's part send-good-vibes-to-the-universe and part community outreach, a handful of yoga studios have decided to cut the unemployed a break.
"We didn't want them to have to choose, 'Should I eat today or go take this class?' We wanted to give them the ability to do both," said Zack Lynn, a computer techie by day who teaches a free yoga class for people out of work in Columbus.
The Integral Yoga Institute in New York started offering free weekly classes last year when some students lost their jobs and couldn't afford to pay $17 per course. Now, a dozen or two jobseekers drop in for free sun salutations and other stretches every week.
"It helps to quiet the mind and helps people realize that this is a temporary situation," said Jo Sgammato, the studio's general manager.
Yogis say breathing exercises can reduce the stress of job interviews and post-stretching tea time is good for networking.
"You're not really thinking about other things," said Quinn Johnson, a 42-year-old former limo driver who started attending Integral Yoga's free classes earlier this year. "You're relaxing. You're stretching."
Both of these articles may not necessarily highlight the importance of yoga, but it is putting yoga back in the forefront of people's minds saying that it IS important and extremely beneficial. I personally believe that yoga is the best form of physical exercise (but I'm also extremely biased about it hehe) and that EVERYONE and their mom and grandma need to do it!!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Car Culture: A History
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Vegan Beer?!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Encino Farmers Market
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Eat Anywhere: Stonefire Grill
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Grill 'Em All........not Grille Mall!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Bikram Yoga Newbie Here
Monday, November 15, 2010
The New Water Saving Toilets!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Eatin' Veggie
Here's a recipe for a simple and delicious vegetarian breakfast...
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
How to become a vegetarian.....for men??
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Confessions of a Closet 80-Year-Old: Crocheted Beret
I finally got around to crocheting a beret for myself! I started last year when I stumbled upon a YouTube tutorial on how to crochet a beret, and since I love to crochet (thank my 5th grade teacher Mrs. Sanchez) I decided to start on it. Finally, one whole year later, my beret is complete!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
This Is Why You Shouldn't Eat Happy Meals.....or McDonald's in General.
Stolen from Gizmodo.com (Go to the link to watch the creepy video):
http://gizmodo.com/5662271/watch-six-months-of-a-happy-meals-eternal-life?skyline=true&s=i
"Sally Davies bought a McDonald's Happy Meal on April 26, 2010. She placed it on her coffee table, uncovered, and took photos every day for six months. This video shows the results, which are quite scary.
180 days—and she says there were no worms, mold, smell, or visible decomposition of any kind.
Perhaps you have seen similar things before, but the fact that anyone can repeat this simple experiment, the fact that a burger and fries can survive through six months—including New York's fierce summer—is just scary and gross. Even more so than knowing how chicken nuggets are made and sterilized. Sally talked about his experiment to Good Morning America.
What I want to know now is what kind of technology does McDonald's use to create these things. Is a Happy Meal scientifically considered inert matter? Is it made of carbon-based polymers? Can it be recycled into jet fuel? They taste marginally better than asbestos, so it must be okay to use them to build houses.
I have no answers for you, but I hope there's a lesson in this for all of you, dear parents, would-be-parents, and I-don't-want-kids-but-I-like-Happy-Meals-anyway people out there. [Flickr]
This just goes to show how gross McDonald's really is. If their food can't mold after sitting out for SIX MONTHS, how can we trust that their food is good for us? It's so unnatural!!
I mean, this could be taken as a good OR a bad thing. It's bad because hello, it's freaking creepy and nasty....but it's good because this means food will never spoil!!! McDonald's must have discovered a super magical new form of preservatives that allows food to last FOREVER!!
Wait until terrorists get a hold of this stuff, they will be unstoppable. -___________- Yeahhh, I tried rooting for them, but I failed. That's just gross. Period!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Eat Anywhere: Cici's Cafe
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
WORLD VEGETARIAN DAY!
Friday, September 3, 2010
Greenasium: Turning Those Gym Rats to just that....gym rats
Source: Harnessing the Power of Gym Rats | NBC San Diego"The Greenasium really wants to be green. To do it, the new gym in San Diego is turning its customers into real gym rats.
The Greenasium , which opened Wednesday, has three specialty spin bikes that push electricity back into the grid, helping provide power to the gym and other electricity customers. Its the first human-powered fitness studio in San Diego, according to its owners.
"The bike's are retrofitted by a company up in Seattle that we work with called Resource Fitness," said Greenasium's co-owner Byron Spratt. "As the bike (spins), the wheel creates DC power, converts it to AC power, which is plugged back into the wall, which puts energy back into the grid."
Spratt expects to add elliptical bikes in October to help offset their carbon footprint to an even greater extent.
The 2,600-square-foot gym isn't completely human powered, at least not yet, Spratt said. Their goal is to be balanced, producing enough energy to offset what they consume.
Every three months, management will look at the gym's power-consumption totals, and then the gym will sponsor activities such as a beach cleanup to offset any additional carbon footprint.
The gym's green in other ways, too. Its rubber flooring is made of recycled tires, and the equipment has been refurbished to a near-new state. Other environmentally friendly elements include low-flow showers, dual flush toilets, filtered tap water and a no- to low-plastics policy -- there's no bottled water at the Greenasium."