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Weekend Reading: The D.C. Exhibits You Need to See

Hi readers, It’s been an exciting couple of weeks! First, I appeared in the New York Times to give my expert opinion on sustainable gift-giving. The author gave me just a couple hours to come up with recommendations for brands I like for gifting. Like choosing a favorite child, but...

Beauty

The Need to Know List: Non-Toxic Beauty and Slow Fashion is BLOWING UP

by Alden Wicker
Apr 29, 2014

Two upscale sustainable labels–Tata Harper and Maiyet–collaborated on a partnership for Earth Month. 100% of the proceeds from their Better Beauty Project Campaign will go to Nest, a sustainable development nonprofit, with their Edible Garden Initiave in Varanasi, India. Amber Valetta is really over fast fashion. She’s become a huge...

Food

Green Restaurant Review: Rucola in Brooklyn on a Rainy Day

by Alden Wicker
Aug 1, 2013

If you’ve read the excellent, semi-autobiographical novel Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, you know that Boerum Hill used to be … not so great. But where in Brooklyn was? Boerum Hill, along with large swaths of this borough, has experienced a renaissance, evidenced most clearly by that breed of rustic...

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