Just a few questions from the Liquid Salt interview: Tell us a little about yourself. What is your background? I was born in Baltimore and spent summers growing up in Ocean City Maryland. I moved to Rhode Island to attend the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. I started shaping boards while I …
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Walkability raises housing value by $4,000 – $34,000
Can you walk to stores, schools and a park from your home? If so, your house or condo may be worth substantially more than those in more isolated, pedestrian-hostile neighborhoods. That’s the finding of “Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities,” a study by Joseph Cortright that analyzed data from 94,000 …
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Growing coffee trees in California
In this day of the $6 cup of coffee, when bragging rights mean knowing not only the varietal but the beans’ latitude, anything exotic gets the antennae waving. Which may explain why Jay Ruskey of Good Land Organics is inundated with requests to visit his north Santa Barbara County farm, where he is the only person cultivating …
New corporation type – B Corporation – for sustainable “benefit corporation”
B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. (It’s like a LEED certification or Fair Trade certification, but for a business, not just a building or a bag of coffee.) B Lab, a non-profit, describes the B Corporation movement like this: When you support …
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Etsy raises $40 million funding – giving craftrepreneurs an international marketplace
Etsy has closed $40 million of funding from a roster of investors who have been believers in Etsy for a long time. I couldn’t be happier to have such a committed set of partners who “get it” along for the next stage. What do we plan to do with the money we’ve raised? Two simple …
SimCity 2013 – goes green with limited resources, pollution, and sustainable principles
Any computer gamer old enough to remember floppy disks probably paid at least a fleeting visit to SimCity, the legendary franchise that let players build — and destroy — the metropolises of their imaginations. After passing through half a dozen incarnations in the two decades since its debut, the game is back, and its creator, …
Ballona Wetlands – 600 acres of Los Angeles coast will soon be restored
In a first step toward restoring one of Southern California’s few remaining wetlands and opening it to the public, the state has approved spending $6.5 million for planning a massive restoration of the degraded Ballona Wetlands. (In the plan) initial proposals call for spending $100 million to remove concrete levees and truck out tons of …
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Now is the easiest time since Prohibition to start a distillery
In our inaugural film, we visit the Breuckelen Distilling Company, the first gin distiller in Brooklyn since prohibition. Founder Brad Estabrooke talks about starting from nothing and the imperfect process of perfecting a craft. “It was challenging to get people to take me seriously. ‘Hey, I just got laid-off from my job and I have …
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"Everything is connected" – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably
Speaking at Davos this year: The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis. Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the …
“Everything is connected” – Ban Ki-moon urges the developed world to innovate sustainably
Speaking at Davos this year: The Secretary General of the UN has told industrial leaders they have a social and moral duty to innovate, in the drive to turn around the global financial crisis. Ban Ki-moon said that many countries were calling for the economy to be revitalised, social inequality to be addressed and the …