Ten Easy Tips for Greening Your Abode with Laborfair

At Laborfair, living green can be easy as well as feel good. It’s a fun challenge to make your home align with your values. Check out these 10 tips on how to “green” your home and use laborfair service providers to help you make it happen: 1. Get a High-Efficiency Showerhead and call a plumber [...]

Bottled Water and Going Green

I’m happy and grateful for the earth. In this season and age of plenty, the popular expression “reduce, reuse, recycle” has never made more sense. If we want a world where our grandchildren don’t have to live in a plastic bubble, filtering every environmental pollutant through a fire hose of sanitized oxygen, we better make [...]

Laborfair sister site in India, different worlds, same message

Today, I was thrilled to see a feature article appear in the Technology section of the New York Times about a former Microsoft employee and internet entrepreneur that is using the power of social networks to bring more jobs to India’s masses making less than $3 a day. The title of the article is: “In [...]

Clipped on the way to work

Biking to my office today, I was clipped by a passing car. His passenger mirror hit my elbow as I was cycling up Van Ness and dented my mirror. It hurt, still smarts a bit but outside of a small bruise, I suppose I’m fine. In the moment, I thought “surely, he’ll stop and ask [...]

NY Childcare Providers Join with Teachers Union

Wow, today a blog I frequent reported that 28,000 childcare providers in New York have joined with the United Federation of Teachers, a union, to help secure more of an economic and political voice for themselves through collective bargaining. A partnership between ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and UFT shows one of [...]

Green inspiration – the kind you eat

I read an article on poverty in America today, how Walmart and 7-11 are increasing inventory around cheaper food items as Americans get poorer–as a result there’s more malnutrition and people eat far less fruits and vegetables. It really got me thinking–I’m happy I finally have time to write a blog. Absent of moral posturing, [...]