New green living guides, new structure for resources
August 28th, 2009 | Published in EcoMetro Guides
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.
This piece is one I started last year, but this year it includes all the recycling hotlines and energy resources, but it also has cool cultural resources like Urban Edibles (a way cool map of free food growing wild in the city) and a list of websites to check out including Inhabitat and Grist.org. Doing this for each city (Seattle, Twin Cities, Denver/Boulder, Silicon Valley/Santa Cruz, Berkeley/Oakland, and of course Portland) was a fascinating look at how these cities function–and don’t. Some don’t even have a clear hazardous waste disposal site for residents, or they do but no one ever picks up the phone. Portland is far and away the best at this online, but Berkeley has the EcoHaus resource center with a green hotline that you can call and ask anything about eco living. Anything!