Archive for April, 2009
Green Living: Greener Country
We have access to a lot of great green businesses here on Long Island, from eco-friendly building companies to restaurants, but let’s face it, if you’re looking for a handbag or wallet made from rubber tires, or biodegradable dinnerware made from sugar cane, only two words come to mind: good luck!
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
My hair started to go south when I was 16.
I had beautiful head of long, blond hair, and one day after I ran my comb through my it, I looked and there was enough hair on my comb for me to make my own Chia Pet out of my lost hair.
Field of Greens
Just off Spagnoli Road in Old Bethpage is an unmarked fence, and on a frigid Saturday in early April that is where I sat, in my car, bracing myself for the physical labor ahead. The gate is the entrance to the Restoration Farm, the only certified organic farm in Nassau County.
Going Paperless to Go Green
The words “office” and “paperwork” often go hand-in-hand. But with the current economic troubles, some offices are reviving the theory of the “paperless office,” a system to cut costs while cutting down fewer trees.
Fight For The Right
Tara Germain carries a gun. She wears a bulletproof vest. As a police officer in the Suffolk County Parks Department, Germain, of St. James, responds to emergency situations, domestic disputes and criminal activities. Her duty requires her to be ready for anything, the ability to react on a moment’s notice to the most unpredictable of scenarios.
Loose LIPs: For the Week of April 23 – April 29
So you walk into Courtney Love’s house and see a dead bird. Oh no! It must be an accidental overdose of some sort, you tell yourself. Or at least that’s how we imagine things played out when a moving guy at the Love residence chucked a dead chick in the trash.
