Friday, March 6, 2009

Rise Above Plastics

Check it out, Rise Above Plastics is a site all about the awareness of the effects plastic has on our lives. Since Rise Above Plastics luanched thier website over 11 BILLION plastic bottles have ended up in landfills... YIKES!

You've probably read here in the past about the North Pacific Gyre and the Blob of plastic floating in the Pacific that is 2 times bigger than Texas.

Rise Above Plastics is supported by everybody from the Surfrider Foundation and Jack Johnson (who we really dig!) to the Algalita Foundation, Heal the Bay, Junkraft, and a whole bunch of other really cool people.

How are you going to reduce your plastic usage? A couple of easy ways are to get your own reusable bags for those trips to the grocer and a cool Sigg Water bottle!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Maku Furniture featured on The Alternative Consumer

One of our favorite sites The Alternative Consumer featured a few Maku Furniture pieces on their site over the weekend. The Maku Sectional, Maku Lounge Chair, and Maku Coffee table were all pictured in a great little blurb about how we use 100% reclaimed wood in our furniture.

And by the way that's Pro Surfer and Maku Lifestyle Ambassador Rizal Tanjung chilling on the lounge chair pictured.

Thanks for the support A.C. crew!

Click here to check it out!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Structured Green - The Creative Gale, Savannah



Mike and crew are hosting in their store a cool entrepreneurial support event with The Creative Gale. So if your in Savannah, an entrepreneur, or just want to meet some very cool people check it out!

The Creative Gale, this Thursday March 5 at 3:00pm, will be held at the wonderful Structured Green!



A great group of speakers will be coming:

Jamie Wolf – The Creative Coast Alliance

Chris Miller – illuminomics

Nathan Belzer — Belzer Law

Brian OliverSmith — Urban Planet Mobile

Blaz Ruzic -Structured Green

Ray Wenig - Ariel Savannah Angel Partners

We're excited to meet all of the talented, connected people who are attending.

Anyone can attend this Entrepreneurial Support Infrastructure event. Just register online at this link: http://creativegale.net/savannah

Butts at the Beach

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people throw their cigarette butts out the window. Be it on the highway, in a neighborhood and especially on the beach.

Cigarette butts are the #1 item found in urban run off pollution throughout Southern California. If you smoke, hold on to your butts. If you don't smoke, even better!

As a member of 1% For the Planet we donate a portion of our total sales to our friends at The Surfrider Foundation. They just came out with a cool little PSA on you tube about cigarette butts.