Wend Gets Mentioned on Greenupgrader
I was so excited to learn today that Wend got an excellent mention over at GreenUPGRADER, one of my preferred green blogs on the web.
A sample:
…the features include outdoor adventures, eco-minded company profiles and products, a Greenery section, with an overall cutting edge feel that is a welcome relief from the typical outdoor mags.
And GreenUPGRADER gave a particular shout out to my own article How Many People Could Your Cotton T-Shirt Hydrate. It’s always nice to be reminded that you’re doing good things!
Mountainfilm On Tour
I was stoked to receive the Mountainfilm 2008 guide in the mail yesterday. Sent to me in order to get a feel for what this year’s film festival will be like, the guide made me want to immediately book a ticket for the upcoming event in May. If you’re not familiar with Mountainfilm it’s an annual film festival dedicated to “educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, and conversations worth sustaining.”
So it’s not just a collection of climbing and hiking films; there are also ones about conservation, social justice and cultural issues. All things that we should be concerned about! Last year’s films include Carpa Diem, Losing the Elephants and Flow (a personal favorite documentary about water issues).
But for those who can’t make it to the actual festival held in Telluride, CO, there’s Mountainfilm On Tour. A selection of films from the festival are taken on the road to reach audiences that otherwise would not have experienced them. The tour is coming to Portland tomorrow which I’m excited about, but if you live elsewhere, be sure to check out the tour schedule.
Win a pair of END shoes and a Wend subscription!
We’re doing a cool contest over at Wend in conjunction with END Footwear. From the Wend blog:
To help you be the hip, eco-aware kid on the street, we’re launching a sweet contest via Twitter. Want to enter? All you have to do is:
1. Follow @wendmagazine and @ENDfootwear
2. Tweet “Just entered to score a WEND mag sub and a pair of sweet END shoes! Just follow @wendmagazine and @ENDfootwear and RT http://xr.com/aya”
We’ll be giving away 3 one-year subscriptions, and each one comes with a pair of END shoes, hot off the Spring 09 line! Get to tweeting!
Good luck from your friends at WEND + END!
If you’re not familiar with END, it’s a Portland based shoe company committed to responsible design. Learn more about the END team and their philosophy here.
Friday Photo: Ski Tracks
I know it seems that I have given up on this blog, but I haven’t! I just needed to take a break from technology over the last few weeks to re-energize and re-focus my creative efforts. But now I am back, with lots of good ideas and a healthy creative spirit; let’s hope it brings me good things in 2009…
As for the photo: somehow we managed to get an unheard of amount of snow over Christmas, so I dusted off my cross country skis that had been in storage and took them out on an adventure back and forth across the field at my parents’. There’s something special about being able to ski in your own backyard.
Runner-up in the Guardian’s December photo contest!
I was happy to find out yesterday that the above photo (taken in Glacier National park) was selected as a runner-up in the Guardian’s December Been There photo contest . The first-place winner was an incredible picture taken in India. You can check it out here.
Friday Photo: Winter Sun
It’s been a wintry week in Portland… and this is one of my favorite shots!
Gingerbread Houses
I didn’t realize it until a few days ago, but green and sustainable gingerbread houses are definitely the “it” thing this season. Treehugger has written about them as have two other eco-concious sites Inhabitat and Grist, and even the New York Times got all excited about sustainable architecture represented in baked abodes.
Sadly, I didn’t have the time to put towards making my own version of a sustainable gingerbread house. But I’m still happy with the outcome. I guess I could lie and say that the candy canes are supposed to represent solar panels… but that wasn’t intentional.
Sounds of Travel: Air’s ‘Ce Matin La’
My latest Sounds of Travel is up over at Gadling. I wrote about one of my favorite bands and songs, Ce Matin La by the French duo Air. It’s hard to listen to it without being put in a good mood.
Here’s an excerpt:
For me, traveling music has to provide a good background. It has to to flow with your up and down emotions, fit a variety of situations, but be distinct enough that it brings back memories when you return home. For that reason, in my last post I wrote about St. Germain, which is one of my favorite artists to listen to while traveling. Along those same lines comes Air, another electronica-inspired group that hails from France.
As I wrote about St. Germain, music like this immediately takes me back to living in France; I can envision the first time and place that I listened to either of these two groups. But Air is a little more than that, the duo’s second album Moon Safari has become my traveling soundtrack — no matter what the destination — and my song of choice is Ce Matin La.
To read the whole post click here.
Friday Photo: Winter Jars
This was taken at my parents’ house over Thanksgiving. My mother had creatively placed these mason jars on a metal table on our patio, and the morning air had fogged them up which I thought was really beautiful.
Happy Friday!
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