epa & green energy

did you know
sweetgreen is an EPA Green Power Partner? this is part of the EPA’s efforts to have green energy be more broadly used in the US; Green Power Partners are simply organizations and businesses that buy this type of energy. being a GPP puts us in the excellent company of Fortune 500s like Apple [...]

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smartcars

not just for europeans anymore!

mayor fenty has one

(see this WP article slideshow for a better picture)
and, as seen in september vogue, the social set are also into them
 
noted benefits of smart car:
 

“cute and new factor,” “new and bright and shiny”
interchangeable panels to match your new pink blackberry/macbook air in “prowler” metallic purple/Nina Ricci chunky knits
potential to [...]

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white collar, blue collar, new color green collar

green collar: 

“A green-collar job is in essence a blue-collar job that has been upgraded to address the environmental challenges of our country.”
-Lucy Blake, CEO of Apollo Alliance
“A green job has to do something useful for people, and it has to be helpful to, or at least not damaging to, the environment.”
-Carl Pope, executive director of [...]

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three minutes//to save the world

Today, the 3-minute interview series on DC Examiner featured Nic – here’s the piece.

The 3-minute interview
WASHINGTON – Nicolas Jammet and two of his Georgetown University classmates cooked up the idea for Georgetown frozen yogurt and salad joint Sweetgreen when they were still undergraduates. Now, with business booming, the trio is [...]

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Green Cup of Polo

Saturday July 19 2008, the Capitol Polo Club hosted the second annual Green Cup of Polo to benefit the environment. With an opening speech by co-founder of EarthEcho International Alexandra Cousteau of the distinguished Cousteau family, the Green Cup’s mission is to “raise awareness of environmental issues and benefit four prominent environmental organizations: ACORE (American [...]

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sustainability/playlist of the week

sweetgreen featured as a sustainable restaurant

The April issue of The New York Times Magazine was dedicated to taking “a few bold steps to make your carbon footprint smaller.” The Green Issue included a great article by Michael Pollan (famous omnivore and defender of food) called “Why Bother?” Pollan takes on the question of why we, [...]

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rising energy prices – the silver lining

We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
-Alan M. Eddison
No one likes to buy a product knowing it may be less than great for the environment, but most of us have at one time or another opted against the recycled, organic, cage-free, energy-efficient or otherwise green [...]

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