http://www.blueavocado.com/blog Your one stop shop for green tips, inspiration, and the latest BlueAvocado musings. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:44:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Forty years ago on April 22, 1970 the first Earth Day was held.  The state of the environment was not on the national political agenda and Senator Gaylord Nelson wanted to change that. With the support of President Kennedy, he had a vision of tapping the anti-war “teach-ins” movement sweeping ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=150 Well in a small twist of fate, Schlumpy could quite possibly have been the cleanest participant at this year's ACL festival. As Zilker park turned into literal mud bath, Schlumpy braved the weather and won the hearts of hundreds.  While the precise calculation is still being processed, it looks like Schlumpy hit an important milestone - 1 million bags pledged to keep off the street! We ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=144 Recently Schlumpy and the billion bag pledge made a stop at Lollapalooza's Green Street in Chicago. Not only did he and our amazing team brave the rain (thanks TKO), but he got some serious luv and made a HUGE impact. Check out Schlumpy in the Chicago Sun Times! To date Schlumpy has ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=134 It is back to school week here in Texas, and for us, that means the opportunity to start anew! Missy started exercising for the first time in 3 years, Amy took a much well deserved couple of days off in honor of her birthday:-), and I have managed to find ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=124 Editor’s Note: The following opinions are explicitly representative of Paige only. Missy and Amy (thankfully) would never be caught dead coming clean with such confessions below. I remember the day clearly. Earth Day – 2008. We had just completed the first official version of our business plan and begun to ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=107 One of the things that we are most proud of at BlueAvocado is our 1% partnership with Kiva.org.  Even before BlueAvocado was a mere pit, our inspiration and love for Kiva was as profound as it was impactful. When we first started dreaming up the concept of BlueAvocado and talking to ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=104 We have a new SERIOUS crush over here at BA HQ.  We discovered the genius of white hot truth and Danielle LaPorte through one of our most devoted BA customers and friends (thanks Melissa!).   The "white hot truth" came into our lives at the perfect time. With a tag line ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=100 We will be the first to admit that we can get a bit overboard with the women empowerment thing here at BA HQ.  So if there is ever a time to quiet our inner goddesses and embrace all the men in our lives, Father's Day is the time. If we don't ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=92 There is no question, we have the best customers ever! We really like to call them family (in fact many of them are:-).  From the random citings we see of savvy sisters sporting their BlueAvocado gro-pak around town, to the honest feedback we have received on how to improve our ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=88 In the midst of moving offices, forecasting  sales goals, gaining customer traction, fulfilling orders, pursuing press, creating new products/patterns, etc, (big sigh), we managed to squeeze in some time to get our new space in check through a Feng Shui Consultation. While there were many insights that have had an immediate ... http://www.blueavocado.com/blog/?p=84