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Sun Powered Suds

A solar powered beer festival is sustainy and tasty!

Beer and Sun are two things that go hand in hand with the summer.  Summer BBQs, ballgames, and trips to the beach usually involve both.  So, we’re excited about an improvement to near perfect union of the two.

Enter the 2009 Craft Lager Festival, a beer fest entirely [...]

July 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy, Green Collar Jobs | Leave a comment

G is for Glorious Human Achievement

I can’t get over this story…

Kibera, Kenya.  Africa’s largest slum.  Imagine the worst living conditions, surrounded by garbage and raw sewage, you decide to grow a garden.  Now imagine not just a small plot kicking down a few weak tomatoes, but a large, thriving, Organic community garden built and maintained by a [...]

February 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Community, Doing Well by Doing Good, Innovation | 2 comments

The Ellusive Carrotmob:

The story of a small for-profit company’s quest to mobilize activist communities (aka Obama taught us a lot):

Virgance was brought to the attention of Sustainy through this month’s top networking tool, Twitter.  It’s a small company revitalizing the practice of “for-profit” activism.  By utilizing everything that is hot in sustainable business today; hyper localism, grassroots social [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Doing Well by Doing Good, Green startups | Leave a comment