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Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle

4:54 pm in beer, bikes, buy local, car free, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger

equinox-beer-trike-bootlegger Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-carrying, the Westcotts teamed up with custom bike designers Yendra Built Cycles. The partnership yielded the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren’t So Bad (Podcast)

4:26 pm in architecture, buildings, buy local, cities, green building, housing industry, TreeHugger Radio, urban life, walking by TreeHugger

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One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York Times. In our interview she reflects on the troubled arc of prefab's promise, why the suburbs aren't that bad (and also Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artisan Yogurt Producer Choked Out of Business By Bureaucratic Red Tape

8:00 am in buy local, farmers markets, Food & Health, food safety by TreeHugger

yogurt photo Photo: Mom the Barbarian Just as it seems we may be moving back toward some sort of food culture in a nation plagued by the side effects of big Ag, red tape chokes another small producer out of business. Take the story of artisan yogurt producer Homa Dashtaki, recently written up in The Economist. Dashtaki makes the kind of artfully created yogurt that makes a foodie sing. But while Big Ag ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Project Ocean Is "Retail Activism" at its Best

5:11 am in Business & Politics, buy local, corporate resonsibility, Culture & Celebrity, exhibits, Food & Health, greenwashing, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

fish window photo Photo: B. Alter Here's a new catch-phrase: retail activism. It refers to stores that get involved with political issues to raise awareness, raise money and presumably sell stuff. A great example in London right now is taking place at Selfridges' Department Store (think Saks Fifth Avenue in the USA) which is really pushing out the boat with their new campaign Project Ocean. It's five weeks of programmes highlighting the impact of overfishing the oceans. With a million people a day passing their spectacu...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Gobble" Helps You Order Take-Out From Your Neighbors’ Kitchens

11:18 am in Business & Politics, buy local, cooking, diet, Food & Health, local food, Science & Technology, vegetarian by TreeHugger

gobble homepage image Image via screengrab We can agree that most take-out is bad for you. We can agree that a home-cooked meal is usually far better than take-out both for you and for the environment. And we can probably agree that even if you're a great cook, a professional chef is better in the kitchen. But if you could have the convenience of take-out, with the healthier edge of home-cooked, but the taste of a professionally prepared meal, would you bite? Gobble hopes so! The start-up has raised $1.2 million to get its website going, which connects you to the best chefs in your neighborhood for home-cooked take-out. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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