Green Your Small Business: Q&A with Jennifer Kaplan

Jennifer Kaplan, author of Greening Your Small Business and founder of Greenhance, sat down with us to talk about easy and inexpensive ways to go green, her top online resources for small businesses, and her favorite green things to do in DC. 1. Tell us a little about how you got started with Greenhance. What was [...]

18th Annual Environmental Film Fest

From sustainable food culture to colony collapse disorder to school lunches, the vital connection between food and the environment is a major theme of the 18th annual Environmental Film Festival, March 16 through 28. Film buffs and environmentally aware citizens will have the opportunity to see 155 documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental, and children’s films that [...]

Back to Your Roots

On Saturday, February 20th, DC’s Field to Fork Network, the America the Beautiful Fund, local community organizations, and members of DC’s urban gardening community will gather for the third annual Rooting DC urban gardening forum. This year’s theme focuses on food production, distribution, preparation, and preservation. The full schedule is available here. When: Saturday February 20th, 9:30-4 [...]

Event: The Green Workplace

On Thursday, February 17 at 6 pm, Leigh Stringer will be speaking about her new book The Green Workplace at the American Institute of Architects, Washington Chapter at 1777 Church Street, NW. The book targets companies, government agencies and NGOs, laying out hundreds of strategies for greening the workplace to help the environment and the bottom [...]

Green Real Estate Heats Up

The mainstream real estate market is still iffy, but the green real estate market is gaining momentum. We talked with Adam Gallagos of Arbour Realty — Northern Virginia’s first green real estate company — to find out about the local green real estate market, how homeowners can reduce their carbon footprint, and the coolest eco-friendly [...]