Vancouver Convention Centre

vanconventioncentreI was in Vancouver for a couple of days and got a behind-the-scenes tour of the brand new beautiful Vancouver Convention Centre.

It’s gonna be media ground zero for the 2010 Olympics, coming up fast. Not only is the new Convention Centre spectacular inside and out, it’s one of the greenest convention centres in the world.

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Filed under: Feel Good Stuff by Tags: , — Moira on August 12, 2009

Maho Bay Eco-Tents

Now that the colors of autumn are fading, the sky’s about to turn slate gray for months and holiday madness is about to get silly on us, why not escape to a Green Territory in the middle of the aqualluring Caribbean Sea and ponder peace?

Fly away to Maho Bay…on the island of St. John, the least populated of the US Virgin Islands.

Airy eco-tent cottages, 114 of them, are tucked away in the lush foliage and joined, spider web-like to each other by an extensive elevated network of stairs and boardwalks, sensitively built with the environment in mind.  (more…)

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Filed under: Feel Good Travel by Tags: , , — Moira on November 7, 2008

Sweetskins

Hemp, organic cotton, eco-fleece, organic lifestyle. A minority women owned eco-clothing company using ecologically sound fibres and conscious clothing manufacturing designed and sewn in a converted garage studio in Eugene, Oregon.

Go organic. It’s cozy, it’s sexy, it’s eco-friendly, and supporting the creative goddesses of Sweetskins is a sweet idea.

Yeah! Bring on the Sweetskins!

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Filed under: Feel Good Stuff by Tags: , — Moira on October 2, 2008