Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, is a reference book for anyone who cares about their health and well being and for the future of the planet. It’s written by Norma Lehmeier Hartie, who develops a blueprint for green, sustainable living. Subjects include: how to replace toxic and unsustainable products with safe, eco-friendly ones; cleaning and removing clutter to organize home or office: using the principles of feng shui, the four elements, color, energy and Vastu; and good design principles needed for a unique and eclectic approach to home decorating. Also contains a comprehensive listing of advisory organizations, product and service resources.

Buy It: Harmonious Environment:

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Phil Loduca Jr. , VP of Sales for methanol fuel cell maker Oorja Protonics has joined the HowYouEco Advisory Board. Oorja Protonics develops and manufactures fuel cells that run on methanol, a green, alcohol-based fuel that reduces greenhouse gas emissions lowering companies carbon footprint.

"Phil brings entrepreneurial and clean tech spirit to the team and we’re excited to have his insights as we grow HowYouEco," said HowYouEco CEO and ChiefEco Luke Fretwell .

About HowYouEco

HowYouEco is the leading multi-channel platform with green directory, social network, media outlet and marketplace where like-minded people and businesses interact. Channels HomeEco, WorkEco and PlayEco bring more green into your home, work and play.

Seasoned show professional Bradford Rand, president and CEO of GoGreenExpo, had an epiphany several years ago about bringing businesses and people together to make a difference on the environment. Now held in cities across the U.S., GoGreenExpo is packed with green enthusiasts learning to connect and make the world a better place.

How do you eco?

I create eco-friendly trade shows around the nation called GoGreenExpo that inspire, enlighten and stimulate the sales of earth friendly products and services. Our company donates booth space and gives speaking opportunities to industry leaders, authors and taste makers that can educate both businesses and consumers on the benefits of “going green.” With musical performances, hundreds of exhibits featuring the latest home & building supplies, organic food & beverages, eco-fashion and and eco-kids zone, there is something for everyone who is interested in making our planet healthier!

Why did you go eco?

I was inspired to produce eco-events after seeing Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth in 2007. The thought of our earth losing to polluters was just not acceptable and through education there is an opportunity for us all to make a difference.

What’s your favorite eco tip?

For businesses: Simply turn over and reuse your fax paper.
For consumers: Buy paper towels and toilet paper that don’t come from virgin forests.
The fact some companies cut down trees to make products like that is crazy!

EcoLinks

• GoGreenExpo
• Eco Meetings, Conferences and Events

Win one of 10 free passes to GoGreenExpo Atlanta on June 26-28, 2009! Check out exhibits featuring the latest eco-friendly products & services, speakers and educational programs and meet other like-minded people.

How to win

Eco-people

1. Join HowYouEco
2. Send email with subject “GoGreenExpo Atlanta” to contact(at)howyoueco(dot)com
3. Include your full name and username in the message.

Eco-companies

1. Submit a new free company listing
2. Send email with subject “GoGreenExpo Atlanta” to contact(at)howyoueco(dot)com
3. Include your company name in the message.

Already on HowYouEco?

1. Submit a new review or add a new mini-post about your latest green
2. Send email with subject “GoGreenExpo Atlanta” to contact(at)howyoueco(dot)com
3. Include your full name and username in the message.

Go Eco!

Enter by June 22, 2009. Only one entry per person or company.

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• HowYouEco
• GoGreenExpo
• Eco Meetings, Conferences and Events

HowYouEco has joined with GoGreenExpo to support upcoming events:

• Atlanta, June 26-28
• Charlotte, October 2-4
• Minneapolis, November 6-8.

Each 3-day event includes exhibits featuring the latest eco-friendly products & services, top speakers and panels and many educational programs.

HowYouEco and GoGreenExpo will raise awareness about the green business-to-business and business-to-consumer events and promote HowYouEco’s sustainability platform and channels, HomeEco, WorkEco and PlayEco.

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• GoGreenExpo
• Eco Meetings, Conferences and Events

Co-founder and CEO of CreativeCitizen.com and EcoMattersDaily.com, Scott Badenoch is dedicated to “realigning our society with nature through business methods” and is on an epic journey for “radical collaboration.” Join him, but walk fast, because he’s not just talking.

How do you eco?

I employ the philosophy of AGAP or As Green As Possible. Knowing that we live in a fluid world, where things move rapidly, being green is a lifestyle not a checklist. You do the best you can at all times, knowing that there are always ways to improve, yet there is no perfect state of green. Humans still have to live and we give off emissions and create waste along the way. The way we deal with those is what counts. And we must always have a positive rather than judgmental attitude about living an eco-friendly lifestyle. Do your best, always be willing to learn new ways to be green and don’t feel guilty when you or others can’t do the most green thing at any given moment. We’re all learning!

Why did you go eco?

Without dwelling on the negative, our species must convert to an eco-friendly society or else… Every single eco-system on the planet is collapsing around us as a result of human impact. The result could be that the planet moves on without us, just like it did with the dinosaurs. Therefore, this is the greatest challenge in human history and what more exciting endeavor to be engaged in?! We are the change agents, the imaginal cells, that are transforming our society to one that is in alignment with nature rather than at odds with it.

Why did I go eco? Because it is the only choice.

What’s your favorite eco tip?

• Favorite? Pee Outside, hands down.
• Most effective tip? Eat less or no meat.
• Find all my favorites here.

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• Creative Citizen
• EcoMatters

HowYouEco has partnered with our friends at Sustainable Life Media to support their upcoming Sustainable Brands ‘09 conference from May 31-June 4 in Monterey, CA.

We’ll raise awareness about the event where 400+ business and brand strategists, designers and sustainability executives discuss the rapid rise of sustainability as a driver for revenue growth and brand equity.

They’ll raise awareness of the value our sustainability platform and channels HomeEco, WorkEco and PlayEco brings to companies who want to reach people that care about green and sustainability.

EcoLinks

• Sustainable Brands ‘09
• Eco Meetings, Conferences and Events

Meet Glenn Fay, founder of OakLeighVermont blog and online store committed to sustainability and renewable energy practices and products. Glenn and his wife, Donna, live near Burlington, Vermont, with their two children and Ginger, a corgie-chihuahua dog and Frankie the cat. A habitual runner, hiker, kayaker, photographer and learner, he’s spent his professional career teaching high school science and as an adjunct professor of education.

How do you eco?

I serve on my town energy committee, which raises awareness, facilitates change through community, regional and state activities and plans with economic development folks. Living in a village as we have for the past couple of years affords a much more sustainable lifestyle as opposed to living in much of our rural and suburban countryside.

Why did you go eco?

Vermonters value personal and community health, quality of life and sustainable living and anyone growing up and living here can’t help but be shaped by that shared culture. As a reader of independent climatologist’s data and their computer models for the past 20 years, I could see climate destabilization barreling towards us despite our misgivings about accepting it as reality. My hope is that we can use the immediate threat of climate change as an opportunity to find common ground for environmental sustainability and also build economic prosperity.

What’s your favorite eco tip?

Take action to change the world for the common good. We need to learn to think critically about information we get from the media and educate ourselves based on independent data. It is not enough to simply talk the talk. Giving money is a start. But real change happens when we are each creative, committed and ACTIVE in our communities and in the world.

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• OakLeighVermont
• Electronics and Computers

KoAnn Skrzyniarz is President and CEO of Sustainable Life Media, a leading producer of sustainable business conferences and events including the upcoming Sustainable Brands ‘09 . KoAnn believes business, every business, can take steps to become a hero for our planet rather than the villain.

How do you eco?

We want to continue to raise the bar on what gets considered ‘table stakes’ when it comes to improving on the environmental and social footprint of business. We want to see business become the hero for our planet rather than the villain it has become. And we believe it’s completely possible. The industrial revolution served to meet the unique needs of the world at the turn of the 20th century, and it DID raise the standard of living across the globe as a result. For the 21st century, sustainability will become the paradigm shift that will change the way we think about consumption and commerce, and I believe we’ll find a way to envision a better future for ourselves.

Why did you go eco?

When we started the company in 2005, we saw the need to reframe the conversation about environmental and social impact of business in the context of the next big innovation opportunity, rather than as an obligation. We believed then, and still do, that a majority of people in business would love to do the ‘right’ thing if they could find a way to be empowered to do so within the constraints of the operating requirements of business, which is to make a profit. And felt without a doubt that we were and are still at the front edge of a new industrial revolution that opens the door for companies to remake the way they make things – and to remake themselves in the process.

What’s your favorite eco tip?

Just put one foot in front of the next. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, and like many on this path, we encourage not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. We choose (and some will say naively) to start with the assumption of best intentions, and to amplify the good that people are doing wherever they are. In this age of transparency, illegitimate activity will be caught and do more damage than it’s worth. So talk about your intentions, talk about your imperfections, your struggles, and your failures – and share your learning. By doing so, you’ll find peers who respect you, customers who will reward you, and partners to help you along the way. And at the end of the day you’ll have the confidence of knowing that your life work amounted to something more than simply spinning your wheels or pitching a whiter white.

EcoLinks

• Sustainable Life Media
• Sustainable Brands ‘09
• Eco Meetings, Conferences and Events

Edited by the coauthors of the notorious zine The Guerrilla Graywater Girls Guide to Water, this collection of original essays, drawings, and photographs is part radical history of water and part DIY guide to disengaging one’s home, school, or workplace from the wasteful water grid. The pieces are arranged in three sections: “Water Wars” focuses on the history and politics of dams and water infrastructure; “The Water Grid” chronicles the rise of energy-intensive, polluting sewage treatment plants, and points out alternative systems; and “Watershed” examines the often destructive relationship between human settlements and nature, but finds hope in the experiences of those involved in watershed restoration.

Buy It: Dam Nation

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