Steller Spa and EcoMom Alliance have come together to create Kade’s Aide, which will bring preventive skin care to Afghan women and children. “Skin care for the Afghan people is a need that was brought to my attention via local Marin County residents, Chrise de Tournay-Birkhahn (of Ecomom Alliance), and her husband, CDR Kurt...
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, the Groasis Waterboxx, is an “intelligent water incubator” that produces and captures water from the air through condensation and rain. It has been hailed as a pioneering and sustainable way of planting without energy and water. The Waterboxxes have been installed throughout the world, including 800 in Joshua Tree National Park, where they...
A statewide rebate program to improve energy efficiency is heading to Marin, so take note: With Energy Upgrade California, you’ll have until December 2012 to qualify — by taking steps like sealing ducts, repairing furnaces or getting solar–power systems analysis completed. Already successful in Sacramento and Los Angeles, the program has many experts excited,...
As I was driving up Tiburon Blvd for the fourth time in one day I thought … if I’m wondering what the signs are about, I’m sure others are too. Hence I asked Monica Grant in our office to write up a little blog on the topic. Best of all, she includes ways to...
Here in the Marin Magazine offices we’re feeling pretty green… after all, Earth Day is just around the corner. Looking for a way to get involved? Check out these community events happening this Saturday (Earth Day). Mill Valley: - Clean up Bothin Marsh, where snacks, lunch, and litter grabbers will be provided. The group...
Few issues incite people more than the debate over affordable housing. As a term, “affordable housing” not only sounds benign but seems undeniably just. Who, after all, would be in favor of “unaffordable housing”? But, when such an abstract social concept morphs into physical reality, perhaps in your neighborhood, that’s when cultures clash and...
Don’t know what to do with that sweater that’s three sizes to large? Or the vase that your mother-in-law gave you that totally clashes with your living room décor? Here’s a solution- donate it to the upcoming rummage sale for Nepal FREED, a non-profit that works to further the educational needs of Nepal’s children....
Stepping onto the campus of the Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State’s marine research facility on the eastern tip of the Tiburon peninsula, one might recall the final scene in the ’70s film Planet of the Apes when Charlton Heston stumbles on the artifacts of a once-thriving America. The vast two-acre parking lot seems...
This holiday season, Marin’s DJ O’Neil, the owner and founder of Hub Strategy advertising, decided to give a gift that keeps on giving… T-shirts. But not just any t-shirts- four originally designed shirts that will be sold by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a non-profit organization that aggressively protects marine life and is best known...
There are 55 percent of families living in Monterey County living in poverty with only a female head of the household struggling to support themselves. Onix is a mother just like this who has worked as a housekeeper for nine years in Carmel, CA. When she found out she had a mass of tumors...
