Green Options » calendar http://greenoptions.com/tag/calendar Posts tagged 'calendar' Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Superman Joins the Fight to Save Trees http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/15/superman-joins-the-fight-to-save-trees/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/15/superman-joins-the-fight-to-save-trees/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:18:37 +0000 Mike Gagnon http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/15/superman-joins-the-fight-to-save-trees/ Copyright Asgard Press/DC Comics/Warner Bros. 2008Thanks to trailblazing enviro-publisher Asgard Press, Superman, and the other heroes from the DC Universe, will be joining the fight to save the environment.

According to the publisher’s recent press release, the eco-friendly efforts made on these heroes behalf is made possible by a new business partnership between Asgard Press and Warner Brothers subsidiary DC Comics.

Asgard Press is a calendar and stationary publisher founded in 1999 with an interesting premise, to influence one of the largest tree consuming industries from within by proving that consumers would care about and support a business based on providing environmentally friendly paper products.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/15/superman-joins-the-fight-to-save-trees/feed/ Eat Your Passion: Five Ways to Contribute Beyond Your Food Purchases http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/10/22/eat-your-passion-five-ways-to-contribute-beyond-your-food-purchases/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/10/22/eat-your-passion-five-ways-to-contribute-beyond-your-food-purchases/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:02:08 +0000 Lisa Kivirist http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/10/22/eat-your-passion-five-ways-to-contribute-beyond-your-food-purchases/ The harvest season readily invokes an aura of gratitude for those of us who frequent our local farmers’ market. We feel appreciation as we wander between the overflowing piles of pumpkins, winter squash and root crops – thankful for the flavors of the past bountiful season.

Yet what can we do to express such thanks? How do we channel such inklings of gratitude? Here’s where a dash of out-of-the produce box thinking can stir up rewarding ways to contribute to your local food system in creative ways above and beyond shopping routines. Yes, you could join a committee or existing organization. But sometimes the volunteer path less traveled can be the route to go, coming up with your own vision and project.

Just ask Melinda and Dan Hemmelgarn, long-time supporters of their Columbia Farmers’ Market. Blending their photography and writing talents with their passion for local agriculture, the imaginative duo created a fund-raising calendar featuring area farmers: Farm Hands – a Tribute to the hands that feed us.

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