Whether your office is in your spare bedroom or at a major corporation, you can make the workplace – and the world – more sustainable. Cape & Islands Green, a step-by-step verification program coordinated by the Sandwich, Hyannis Area, and Cape Cod chambers of commerce, helps businesses meet environmental goals. Momentum is building as the [...]
Healing from the Ground Up!
It’s January as I write this, and I’m spending time dreaming with the Earth. The garden and seed catalogs are arriving daily and as the Earth sleeps and renews herself, I am consumed with planning colorful, lush gardens. Gardens are an extension of the gardener. Some are perfectly manicured and others are wild and uncontrived, [...]
A Hot Solution to Cool Weather Heating Bills
Heating your home with oil eats up a sizable chunk of your household budget, often as much as $5,000 or $6,000 a year, depending on building size, weather and current oil prices. And burning all that fossil fuel doesn’t do the environment any favors, either. While generating electricity from photovoltaic solar panels has been gaining [...]
Green business recognition
Launching the first green business recognition program WINTER 2010 There’s a lot of money and media attention going toward sustainable technologies these days, says Amanda Converse, co-owner of Shift Boutique in Hyannis and Greenover environmental consulting. But she wants local businesses to know about – and incorporate – the day-to-day eco-friendly practices that are [...]
Cape & Islands Green gathers momentum
More and more businesses across Cape Cod are discovering the benefits of demonstrating their environmental commitment by completing the first level of Cape & Islands Green verification. This step-by-step “green roadmap” supported by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Community Development Partnership and local chambers. From making changes within their companies to raising awareness among [...]
Green Business Showcase: Aline Architecture
This re-designed Wellfleet round house touches down lightly on its site, standing on cylindrical concrete piers and a small octagonal service foundation. This allows the wind blown sand of the coastal bank to move freely around the structure avoiding scouring and erosion. The many windows on the south side of the structure allow for passive [...]
Conscious Consumer Winter 2010
It’s the Thought that CountsConsider your purchases and support things that matter:• the local economy • local artisans, culture and diversity• a good cause • fair business practices • recycling & re-use of materials • organic growth & manufacturing Organic Grab & GoGrab a BNatural Gift Card to purchase from the Grab & Go – [...]
Green Business Showcase: My Generation Energy
Sun Power: Harnessing Solar Rays for Home & Business Cape Cod might not be sun-drenched like the Southwest, but more people are taking another look at solar power for clean energy. “We actually have a good resource for solar,” says Luke Hinkle, president and CEO of My Generation Energy in South Dennis. “It’s the cool, [...]
Hearing the Ocean
With Dr. Stormy Mayo, Shareen Davis, Ernie Eldredge, Andrew Koch, Paul Parker and Ben Martens Summers ago when I was 6 my father beached our boat on Jeremy’s Point in Wellfleet to clean off her bottom. Moments into scrubbing that hull, we realized out tide chart error [...]
Earth Garden
HEALING FROM THE GROUND UP! It’s January as I write this, and I’m spending time dreaming with the Earth. The garden and seed catalogs are arriving daily and as the Earth sleeps and renews herself, I am consumed with planning colorful, lush gardens. Gardens are an extension of the gardener. Some are perfectly manicured and [...]
