Carissa Wodehouse

New green living guides, new structure for resources

The 2010 Chinook Books arrived today! It’s super exciting to see another year of my content in beautiful print, and now in 6 cities! I’ll put more up here, and in the interactive print section, soon.

Sustainable trumps green living and eco friendly on hot word trending. Thanks to Al Gore?

These graphs are from Google Trends, which tracks the frequency of searches by term.
Wondering about that peak in 2007? 2007 is when Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award (it came out in 2006), it’s also the year he split the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and he was [...]

I am a Twitter expert because the TV says so

A friend at a local news agency was looking for a Twitter expert. Why not me? Why not anyone, but that’s less fun.

Chinook Book/EcoMetro Guides and ecometro.com

Three years and counting of green living guides/coupon books in 3, then 4, then 6 cities.

EcoMetro: What Nau? Sustainable Clothing Company Throws in the Organic Towel

It hurt to write this, having watched this company grow from a fledgling state.

EcoMetro Interview: Tierra Del Forte of Del Forte Denim

Del Forte Denim is one of the very few jeans brands that uses 100% organic cotton grown in California and does production in the USA. Phone interview.

Plenty Magazine, The Future is Nau

A cutting edge sustainable clothing company, they for some reason offered me one of the first inside looks. Awesome people. This took several interviews with their head people.

GreenPrint’s Green Prince, Portland Tribune

An innovative software company eliminates that annoying last page of printouts, saving paper and money. A nice guy. 1 interview and 1 follow up fact checking call.

From Trash to Fashion, Portland Tribune

From Trash to Fashion, Portland Tribune
Junk to Funk is a recycled fashion show that started the year I wrote about it and has since sold out entire show halls!

LA Times Winter Olympics

A good friend invited me to Torino for the Winter Olympics in 2006, to hang out with her family. Her little sister dates Joey Cheek, the speedskater, who won gold the second night we were there. Whooee!

Hello hello! I create content to engage people in all levels of a sustainable lifestyle and show how to take action through localized resources, interactive impact calculators, and the social aspects that make it all fun. There is a lot of generalized green living information out there, but it's the ability to act at home and with your community, and the emotional incentive to do so, that I work in. If you work in digital storytelling, environmental education, or sustainable travel, I'd like to know who you are, too. Twitter is best, but email is good also.