SASS Magazine, March 2006, No. 8
Rachel Bending, founder and owner of Slingfings, has a vision of how the fashion industry should work, and she's putting her money where her mouth is with her groundbreaking company. I chatted with Rachel about fashion, climate change and her fun, funky, retro style -- by Collin Dunn
Climate change is big news these days. Along with the tragic devastation on the Gulf Coast following an especially tumultuous hurricane season, global warming is a hot button topic. While there’s still some debate about exactly what's happened and what's next, scientists agree that the earth is warming, and that human activity is probably the cause. Here are lots of easy ways that you can green your routine and help make the world a cooler place.
Humans leave ecological footprints anywhere they go, but just as people strive to reduce their effect on the places they travel, so too are people coming up with ways to reduce the impact of getting there -- by Kathryn Gillick
From work to play to romance, your sustainable future is in the stars when it comes to climate change and a world that just keeps gettin' hotter -- by Esteban Fortuna
There is more to any given activity's carbon-dioxide emissions. Trees are cut down, land is developed, and energy is used to provide the lifestyle we've all become accustomed to. Offset My Life will give you the tools to balance all of that out -- by Shea Gunther.
Climate change is a fantastic opportunity to see if we, as a global society, can reinvent ourselves. As youth, I believe we can inspire elegant solutions that redesign society from the very roots. The future is pure possibility -- by Alysia Garmulewicz
Over 300,000 people have joined up with the virtual march at stopglobalwarming.org. Something that Larry David, Blue Man Group, Jack Black, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger and Walter Cronkite all agree on can't be wrong, can it?
2005 was the hottest year ever. Punctuated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the catastrophic damage they wrought, the warming globe has never been on the tips of so many tongues. While the current scientific and political communities remain at odds over the causes, extent and solution to our slowly heating planet, one thing is for sure: it isn’t getting any cooler around here -- by Collin Dunn
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