greenerati.com » New York City http://greenerati.com Green Building and Lifestyle Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:16:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Buy It Green http://greenerati.com/2006/10/18/184/ http://greenerati.com/2006/10/18/184/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:46:31 +0000 pepeflaco http://greenerati.com/?p=184 green-zebra

It’s not like we haven’t seen coupon books like this before in other cities (like Portland and Austin) but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be tickled green by San Francisco’s own Green Savings coupon book.

Green Zebra – San Fran’s Green version of those Entertainment coupon books recently hit the stands. You don’t have to be too bashful about using these coupons because the book only contains local green business (sorry Whole Foods) with a slew of restaurants, spas, shops and the like. Aside from the myriad coupons the book offers ideas about how create a Green Wedding, a list of Dirty Dozen produce, and our fave, a neurotic recycler quiz. Maybe it won’t hit the NY Times Top 100 Book List but who really cares when you can sip a free Green Zebra tomato martini at Bacar.

]]> http://greenerati.com/2006/10/18/184/feed/ 0 Who Cares About the Environment? http://greenerati.com/2006/09/07/who-cares-about-the-environment/ http://greenerati.com/2006/09/07/who-cares-about-the-environment/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:51:02 +0000 pepeflaco http://greenerati.com/?p=167

Who cares about the environment (besides Gore)?Even if you haven’t seen Al Gore’s docu pic “An Inconvenient Truth” it doesn’t take a rocket scientist or in this case a meteorologist to know that something’s screwy with the environment and the weather. Anyone who spent any time in San Francisco this past summer can tell you why. We actually had warm (sometimes in the 90s), sunny days during July and August. This isn’t LA or NYC. Normally the only ones wearing shorts during the summer are tourists. And you feel bad watching them shiver as they wait for the cable cars. Even the Sunset District, known for anything but sun, had less than its normal share of fog. We just can’t have this much heat and sun in San Fran. It just ain’t right.

What would we do with the wonderfully droll quote wrongly attributed to Mark Twain, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”?

Anyone out there care that Homes account for about 18% of the greenhouse gases emitted here in the USA? It’s going to get worse unless we make it better. Or as Sarah Connor put it in Terminator 2: Judgment Day: “Anyone not wearing two million SPF sunblock is gonna have a really bad day!”

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