green career: Bamboo Bread Bag - Be GREEN while Keeping Your Bread Fresh! - 04/11/08 07:26 PM
Bamboo bags for carrying and storing loaves of bread are a new, sustainable product launched in November, 2007 by three Berkeley-based enterprenuies: Ann Arnold, a writer and illustrator of children's books; Linda Elvira Piedra, a photographer and Lauren Shi, an alternative medicine practitioner and acupuncturist-in-training who runs the Wellspring Clinic.
Ann, a Marin resident (her great grandparents gave Muir Woods, the National Monument, to California. Her grandmother was a Kent, as in Kentfield of Southern Marin), came across the bamboo cloth in a fabric store.  The cloth is woven from the substantially reproducing bamboo that's becoming one of the hottest multipurpose crops … (9 comments)

green career: Your #1 Green Home Choice? - HELP - What to Tell High Schoolers on Green Career Day? - 04/08/08 01:29 PM
GO GREEN, FEEL GOLDEN!  
That's the phrase for our local high school's first Green School Week!
My philosophy in life is always to take the challenge. 
So, when my son's high school (San Marin High School in Novato, CA, of which I am really involved in) decides to host it's first ever Green School Week and asked for parent volunteers to make a Green Careen presentation, I said "Yes".
I figured that I am a Realtor, not really a Green career, but I can CERTAINLY come and make a presentation about Green Housing; perhaps the students can take the ideas home. 
Now that … (4 comments)