Favorite Green Places
Palisades Park Commission
Monday, January 9th, 2012We’ve been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather with some nice weekend hikes lately - we’ve been finding spots of nature and taking advantage of it wherever we can!. This weekend, we went for a ramble through the Palisades Park - and stumbled upon some ruins called “Millionaires Row” which really piqued our interest. One of [...]
NASA’s Earth Observatory
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011I’ve started getting a neat email in my inbox every day - it’s the Earth Observatory, from NASA, and it sends out a daily image (or two or five) that share a part of our planet that we don’t often see from here. For example: a meteor, viewed from the International Space Station: Isn’t that [...]
Guest Post: Going Green at the Newport Folk Festival
Monday, August 9th, 2010I’m excited to welcome friend-of-tiny-choices and Poetess Miranda here today to share with us a recent trip and associated eco-epiphanies. Thank you Miranda! I heart you! Upon moving to the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, I’ve become involved in two really important things: 1.) going green and 2.) going to concerts and festivals. After having lived [...]
Friday Content - We Need Your Help!
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Hey Tiny Choosers! We’d like to take this soapbox platform we’ve got here to ask for a little help for our Friday content. We would really like to have a more interactive feature on Fridays - Mondays through Thursdays are, in general Karina and Jenn mouthing off about whatever they feel most excited about in [...]
Favorite Green Places: Transcendentist
Friday, January 8th, 2010Today’s Favorite Green Places contribution was submitted by friend-of-Tiny Choices Beth Terry (aka Fake Plastic Fish): —————- Believe it or not, one of my favorite green places is my dentist’s office: Transcendentist, the dental practice of Dr. Fred Pockrass in Berkeley, CA. It’s not just a dental office; it’s a spa. From the moment you [...]
Favorite Green Places: The Linkery
Friday, December 18th, 2009Tiny Choices reader Jen F. sent in her contribution to our Favorite Green Places series: ———— I love The Linkery restaurant in San Diego. They serve only sustainably raised meats and fish. They have an ethic about it where the whole animal should be used and respected so they often feature offal selections or cuts [...]
Favorite Green Places: Birdbath Bakery
Friday, December 4th, 2009Here’s this weeks entry for our Favorite Green Places series: This is the kind of green place we can get behind- carefully considered from top to bottom, Birdbath Bakery in NYC is about as green as a business can get. Talk about tiny choices- Birdbath has made them all… combined, they make for one conscious [...]
Favorite Green Places: Cooper Union!
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009I want to share with you one of my new favorite green places - it’s the new academic building at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art — which, incidentally, happens to be my alma mater. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cooper Union (and there are bunches of you!) [...]