GREEN-TIPS
This week Manhattan Lincoln and Chef Wolfgang Ban of Seasonal and Edi & The Wolf hosted a special Dine and Drive event, showcasing the all new Lincoln 2012 MKZ Hybrid. Guests enjoyed delicious hand-picked wine paired with small appetizers by Chef Ban upon arrival and were able to walk around and car-gaze at Manhattan Automobile Company.
Appetizers included porkbelly, beef tartar, king crab, oysters, tomato bread with basil, and beet gazpacho. Some of the wines accompanying the dishes include Steininger Riesling Sekt, Forstreiter Gruner Veltliner Grand Reserve 2010, and Wieninger Pinot Noir Select 2008, just to name a few.
If you recycle and carry your groceries in a tote bag, keep in mind that reducing meat consumption is an essential part a sustainable lifestyle, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As much as recycling helps, it is meat consumption that is doing the most damage. Here are three BIG reasons to quit meat for good:
As the weather warms up and summer approaches, be sure to heed these tips on keeping cool and saving energy this summer.
Fix Your Leaks/Seal Your House
Air leakage wastes about 30% of the energy consumed within a home throughout the day. The good news is you can easily find services to audit your house and reduce carbon consumption through improved efficiency, seal windows and doors to keep the cool air in.
In addition, installing dense insulation, especially in households with attics also helps reduce waste.
As conditions worsen across the globe due to climate change and its effects on the world's ecosystems, the clamor to find new ways to lessen our carbon footprint and slow the ever-worsening crisis of global warming has brought a unique sense of enthusiasm to architecture and building design. New York City in particular boasts an ever-expanding market for so-called “green buildings,” which are becoming all the rage, at least for NYC's environmentally conscious urban-dwellers.
Peruse these spring-themed and year-round green tips for ways to make even a small difference in helping to save our environment.
Spring Cleaning
This year, consider opting for recycled papers and green cleaning supplies while you start on your spring cleaning. Avoid cleaners containing phosphates, which are extremely toxic to the environment, as well as cleaners containing bleach or chlorine, which tend to be harmful for similar reasons. Vegetable-based cleaners have become increasingly popular and available to consumers across the country. You can also use vinegar as a completely natural way to clean almost anything.
Drink Local Beer, Order Beers on Tap.
Yes it’s even possible to adopt a green stance towards going out on the town. One easy way to do this is to order beers from local breweries- they have lower costs of production and their products travel shorter distances than larger, more well-known breweries.
Wrapping paper and shopping bags alone account for about 4 million tons of trash annually in the U.S. Save some trees and give your friends and family gifts in the bag that keeps on giving with The Give Bag™.
All Give Bags are made from a vegetable fiber called 'jute' which is durable yet fully biodegradable. Bag sizes and designs are created based on the actual textile roll width to ensure minimal fabric waste. There's a cover flap so your recipient can't see what's inside and the bright colored designs are created with vegetable-based dyes.
You may have heard of the ol' brick-in-the-toilet-tank- trick to save water. The idea is that toilets know when to stop filling with water once they reach a certain level. Rather than the toilet thinking it can stop at seven to ten gallons, displacing that water with an object will reduce the actual amount of water "needed."
Since bricks are known to disintegrate in toilet water overtime, plastic (and recycled!) water bottles will work just as well. Simply drop some sand or pebbles into a bottle, fill it up with H2O, and place in the tank! The bottle will displace enough water to save up to a gallon each use, which can add up to 10 gallons a day!
Yes, summer is coming to an end, but that doesn't mean that you have to put away your garden hoe and gloves! Many varieties of trees grow extremely well in the gap between summer’s heat and the real onset of winter. The heatwaves are (hopefully) over, and both the soil and air temperatures have dropped. This will help keep your tree moist so it will stay healthy and strong.
Here are the top 10 autumn-lovin trees that want to be planted this fall!
- Japanese maple
- Ginkgo
- Liquidambar
- Tupelo
- Chinese pistachio
- Chinese tallow tree
- Claret ash
- Golden ash
- Flowering cherry
- Scarlet oak
Continue reading here to learn how to properly grow a tree. Good luck and happy autumn!
You own a pair of jeans, don't you? It is easy to assume that most people in the United States do, as we tend to sell 450 million pairs a year!
And yet, here is a not-so-fun fact: jeans aren't exactly great for our environment. To make our jeans, cotton crops are mostly likely doused in pesticides, fibers are stained with toxic dyes, and the resulting fabric is sandblasted and chemically softened. Another scary fact: cotton needs a lot of water; it can take up to 15,000 gallons of water to produce enough cotton for ....one pair of jeans.
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