Financial Tips for Sustainable Investing: How to Be a Green Investor

It seems like everywhere we turn, we hear about how our beloved planet Earth is falling apart. Global warming, threatened wildlife, polluted oceans, natural disasters, deforestation and fresh water depletion barely scratch the surface of the environmental issues we’re facing as a society. If you’ve ever thought “what can I do, in my little part […]

This Sonoma Home is an Ideal Blend of Indoor and Outdoor Living

After renting vacation homes in the Sonoma Valley community of Glen Ellen for over a decade, San Francisco real estate developer Howard Epstein and interior designer Tami Epstein found a property they had long admired was about to come on the market. “We’d been looking at this property through the gate for many years, but […]

How to Keep Your Lawn Happy and Environmentally Friendly

I’ll admit that I love the smell of freshly cut lawns. But it’s the chemical fertilizers, mower noise, weed battles, and wasteful water consumption that I willingly trade in for more ecologically sustainable pastures. Here are garden design ideas to help you end the suburban turf romance and create a new environmentally friendly field of […]

6 Ways to Go Green in Chicago This March

March in Chicago might be all about the St. Paddy’s Day green, but we’re taking some liberties adding some eco-conscious ways you can go “green” this month too. From sipping a sustainable cocktail to shopping at Chicago’s first zero-waste store, here are six easy (and fun) ways to go “green”—literally and figuratively—around Chicago this month. […]

17 Bay Area Environmentalists Making a Difference in 2019

  Advocates and innovators. A local agency employee, a mother and a mayor. A scientist, an author, two recent graduates and several seasoned entrepreneurs. These 17 groundbreaking thought and action leaders have found powerful ways to influence and shift society. Their creativity and determination is changing the way we do business and the way we […]