Going Green - Includes listings of local retailers, parks, campgrounds and organizations in Kent and Northeast Ohio that focus on the environment and how to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
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Sustainable Fashion: Exploring the Paradox
April 8, 2011 - March 18, 2012 Stager and Blum Galleries
The exhibition "Sustainable Fashion: Exploring the Paradox" is a comprehensive look at sustainable practices in fashion. The multi-billion dollar fashion industry is in a powerful position to make significant changes to the social and physical environment that we all live in. The problems in creating clothing are overwhelming and systemic in all facets of production, retail, maintenance and then disposal, causing a crisis for environmental concerns. The designers featured in this exhibition are approaching these problems in their work; offering design solutions that are both aesthetically pleasing and viable as a fashionable option to the status quo. Information will be provided about the environmental issues that the fashion industry is grappling with, as well as possible solutions for future designers to contemplate in their own work. The exhibition hopes to inform the general public and encourage everyone to re-think their clothing purchases for a more sustainably stylish future. website
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Organization Spotlight: Sustainability For Educators And The Environment
SEE is a non-profit 501c3 organization that integrates zero waste and sustainability education into K-12 classrooms to empower students and teachers with basic working principles they can use to save both money and the Earth’s natural resources. Through simple, yet powerful methods such as vermicomposting, food scrap composting, and recycling, SEE shows students how to take the steps toward a Zero Waste school. When students see the success of their actions, they’re likely to apply these principles to their everyday lives, making sustainability and stewardship a lifelong process. By encouraging schools to teach beyond the textbook with hands-on waste stream management and creative problem-solving, SEE helps teachers and students use sustainability principles in the classroom and throughout the entire school building. Daily practical applications of these principals guarantees that the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” is no longer an abstract concept; it becomes an inherent part of our K-12 lives. SEE envisions a world where every trashcan is replaced with recycling or compost bins that encourage us to think before we toss and allow us to cycle materials back into the system.
OUR MISSION
To teach sustainability principles to K-12 students, and support the creation and stewardship of sustainable waste management practices in schools nationwide. To offer curricula tailored to student age, and educator needs that fosters knowledge and practical application of sustainability principals in the classroom. To motivate environmental clubs and recycling programs to turn trash into cash and increase use of recyclable products to close the reuse loop.
OUR METHODS
Classroom Vermicomposting
Worm Wranglers Clubs
Food Scrap Composting
Zero Waste Lunch Days Recycling.
For more info visit:
talklessdomore.org
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Dr. GreenBee
223 N. Water Street
Kent, OH 44240
330-309-6308
website
aroundkent welcomes
Dr. GreenBee
"The prescription for sustainable living!! As an eco-friendly and environmentally aware company, Dr. GreenBee strives to find you the very best products, made as locally as possible, and manufactured with the lowest environmental impact possible. What does this mean to you? We have already done the research, make the phone calls, and ensured that these products come from reputable manufactures."
Hours:
Monday - Thursday 10 - 7
Friday and Saturday 10 - 9
Sunday High Noon - 6
223 N. Water Street
Kent, OH 44240
330-309-6308
website
aroundkent welcomes
Dr. GreenBee
"The prescription for sustainable living!! As an eco-friendly and environmentally aware company, Dr. GreenBee strives to find you the very best products, made as locally as possible, and manufactured with the lowest environmental impact possible. What does this mean to you? We have already done the research, make the phone calls, and ensured that these products come from reputable manufactures."
Hours:
Monday - Thursday 10 - 7
Friday and Saturday 10 - 9
Sunday High Noon - 6
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The Wabi-Sabi Garden
created and hosted by
Cheryl Townsend!
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Bike it!
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Bag It!
Can Americans break their "100 billion plastic bags a year" habit? BAG IT is a short documentary about plastic grocery bags. Produced by Christine Giordano, the documentary was filmed in Boston, Massachusetts.
website
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Local Retail
Dr. GreenBee
223 N. Water Street
Kent, OH 44240
330-309-6308
website
Green Roots Collection
stores carry items created with sustainable, organic materials and fair trade practices.
41 Village Way
Hudson, OH 44236
330-653-5405
website
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Sites of Interest!
Organic. It's worth it!
website
The Portage Park District
Great website to get info on Parks around Kent. Maps, great photos and events make this the go to site for information about this areas outdoors!
128 N Prospect Street
Ravenna, OH 44266
330-297-7728
website
National Wildlife Federation
website
American Rivers
website
The Wilderness Society
website
treehugger
website
planet green
website
green music group
website
Reverb
website
gazelle
website
Pacific Institute
website
Brita
website
vivavi
website
grist
website
Kiva
website
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Books
Whole Earth Discipline
by Stewart Brand
in an interview with Seed magazine, "...I'd accumulated a set of contrarian views on some important environmental issues—specifically, cities, nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and geoengineering—and that it added up to a story worth telling.
