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CLAIM TO FAME Dubbed the "organic Martha Stewart," Seo is creating a fresh, eco-friendly aesthetic in event planning, interior design and fashion without sacrificing style. "I don't want to sleep on the floor," he says. "I like having a nice home, a stylish wardrobe, nice things to eat. Green can be chic they're not mutually exclusive ideas...
...funny thing about houses. People who have the means to commission an architect-designed home might be expected to care about issues other than big floor plans and marble countertops. For instance, they might be expected to care about whether their new place increased our dependence on fossil fuels or used wood from destructively clear-cut forests. And if altruistic motives don't move them much, they certainly might care about the harm to themselves and their families from homebuilding materials that emit toxic chemicals into the air of their nice living rooms. Could it be that one reason those...
...Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, for instance, delight appears around one corner in the form of a secret "beer cave," a frosty grotto stocked floor to ceiling with unusual beers from all over the world. Customers can sample and even drink them as they shop. In Columbus, Ohio, delight materializes as 16 types of fresh heirloom eggs, their rainbow of colors displayed in a row of baskets so they can be chosen individually...
Broader sustainability extends to every corner of the corporation, from the floor tiles (which are made of 50% postconsumer waste) to the company's composting efforts to its four solar stores (and one all-sustainable store, which received the rigorous LEED?Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?certification from the U.S. Green Building Council) to a Green Mission Team, which provides input on every new store...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.Three undergraduates walk into a bar—one from Emerson College, one from Boston University (BU), and one from Harvard. More specifically, they walk into The Comedy Studio on the third floor of the Hong Kong restaurant, where a handful of young comics are testing out their raw stand-up routines.The students from Emerson and BU both do their schtick, but the Harvard kid merely listens politely. After an enjoyable evening of comedy, the three emerge on to Mass Ave. and go their separate ways. Get it? Get it? Okay...