The “Anything But Three” East (AB3) event went down at Hudson Ave in Harvey Cedars, LBI, New Jersey on Sunday May 4th. The AB3 events are beach gatherings of alternative board riders and craftsmen where innovative designs and ideas are shared and surfed by all.

Greenlight Surfboards took away 1st prize for the “greenest board” category […]

Paolo Lugari has been called inventor of the world. The story of Gaviotas, a village alchemizing peace and prosperity in a stricken land, will change the way you think.
In 1971, a group of Colombian visionaries and technicians decided to prove they could thrive in one of the most brutal environments imaginable, their country’s […]

The Delaware Valley Green Building Council and Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia Present Master Speaker Lecture:
Joe Van Belleghem
“Leveraging Urban Green Mixed Use Brownfield Development to Gain Significant Market Advantage”
 
 
Van Belleghem discovered that creating environmentally benign structures made economic sense for the owner and for the community. He understands the blending of socially, environmentally, and economically responsible […]

Cloud Cult, the band that will make you want to go green, heads out on tour next month and are stopping by Philadelphia to headline the MusEcology Concert for GreenFest Philly, a huge festival held on Sun., Sept. 9. This independent band with a self-created record label, Earthology Records, has been hitting the top 10 […]

Desperately Seeking Couple
 
                     for Free Green Wedding  
 
    GreenFest Philly is offering one lucky couple an extraordinary green wedding—FREE—  for up to 60 guests.
The ceremony / reception will be held at Zagar’s magic MOSAIC GARDEN on South Street in downtown Philadelphia–the city’s most popular public art installation. Guests will enjoy fabulous food catered by ChriStevens, the […]

Kudos to the City Paper for this week’s cover story on Home & Design focusing on green building.
Highlighting finding a green builder, a green Fairmount, greening north Philly rowhomes with Project H.O.M.E. and the work of well-known Philly green Judy Wicks and the White Dog in West Philly.
Sustainability is an issue that the City of […]

Plans are underway for what could be the first LEED Certified building in Reading, PA, sixty miles northwest of Center City. In an interview with the video blog Berks.TV, Berks County Community Foundation president Kevin Murphy talks about the project, which, among other things, is intended as a way to promote awareness of Green […]

I got a chance to go to stop in at the Beyond Oil conference and wrote a story on it at the Philly IMC.
The conference was very well done and there were over one hundred people there which some expressed discouragement over but I think is a lot for a full day saturday event and […]

 It was a packed house for another installment of the urban sustainability forum last night.
The subject was green building and the presentations were pretty interesting, including the upcoming new new york times building and an affordable housing project in brooklyn.
 Wish I had more time to break it down and will try and give it a shot […]