Ecoscene Blog

Thank you to EVERYONE who entered our blog comment contest! You guys left some great substantive comments. We hope you will all stick around Ecoscene and continue the conversation.

The following folks won an Ecoscene t-shirt: Megan McKeon, Shayne, A Siegel, Hans and Carrie!

The big winner of an iPod is: Carrie! (See, making lots of comments pays off!)

And our honorable mention winner of a Very Special Gift is: Marie!

To claim your prize, send an email to Molly@ecosceneinc.com

Stop by and see us - we'll be in booth 418. For more details about the expo, see our previous blog entry here. Can't wait to meet you!

In addition to meeting great people and finding green products, we also discovered some fabulous green websites during Green Fest last weekend. Here are the Top 5 sites we took home:

funinthemaking.net – dedicated to green crafts and sustainable living
gengreenlife.com – a directory of green products
thewhofarm.org – urging for an organic garden at The White House
ecogeekliving.com – a good resource for purchasing green products
greenbodyandhome.com – a gorgeous collection of eco-friendly products that donates 5% of all sales to charity 

Fellow Green Festers, what fab sites did you discover at Green Fest? (Besides Ecoscene, of course!)

We are extending our blog comment contest for one week - make a comment to win! More comments increases your chances of winning one of our fabulous prizes. Return to the blog on 11/18 to find out if you're the big winner of an Ecoscene shirt or our grand prize - an iPod!If you already commented between November 4 and 11, never fear, we will a special drawing just for you. The fabulous prize is a surprise, and you won't be disappointed.Cheers and happy commenting.

To celebrate the launch of our blog, we are having a contest! Simply leave a (substantive) comment on any blog post, and we will enter you into a drawing to be held on Tuesday November 11.

We're giving away 4 Ecoscene shirts and an iPod shuffle! You can enter as many times as you want - one entry per comment.

Let the conversation commence!

Offical Rules: To enter, simply make a comment on any blog post. Comments should be substantive. Each comment serves as a new entry. The more comments you make, the better your chances of winning. To find out if you're a winner, return to our blog where we will announce the lucky winning commenters! 

Green Daily posted an article on a new carbon calculator that "instead of asking you to blindly accept the math Conservation International provides an explanation of its measurements under the tab "methodology and sources."

I tried this calculator and I'm not huge fan. It scored me a 48/50...which is probably more than I deserve. For questions like "I buy natural fiber clothes" the answer had to be a "yes" or "no" and the truth for me is "sometimes". There is no range, therefore I question the accuracy.

What carbon calculators have you tried. What do you like or dislike about them?

According to my RSS reader, Saturday brings out the sessytime in the ecosphere. Click "More" for a handful of titillating posts.

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In the spirit of Fair Trade Month, last night I attended a local green networking event on Fair Trade, which we blogged about yesterday. An interesting question arose: what's more important – buying locally or supporting Fair Trade globally?

After all, most Fair Trade goods (coffee, tea, indigenous crafts) are imported from remote locales like China, Ghana, or Peru, incurring the obvious transportation emissions.

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This could fill up your RSS Reader pretty fast!

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