Happy Halloween!

Are you looking for the perfect place to celebrate this evening? One of our favorite cafes in town, Inside the Bungalow, just so happens to be having a costume party tonight where 100% of the proceeds go to charity! The event starts at 6pm and runs to 9pm at their enchanting Mesa location at Main and Robson (just East of Country Club). Click here for more info, we hope to see you there!

Click here to read our review of Inside the Bungalow and all about their fabulous food, tea, and efforts to be more “green.”

Still planning on staying home? Take the time to do some green crafting! Here is a fun way to keep yourself occupied and make your own decorations for Halloween without the big ecological impact of thousands of plastic bats and skulls. Make your own sugar skulls!

Sorry about not posting lately, taking a bit of a vacation. We’ll be back soon!

If you’re thinking about brewing biodiesel or even already brewing bio I’d highly recommend checking out this nice safety video. It is easy to have an accident if you aren’t being careful. Just this last August there was an explosion at a house cause by a home brewer in Surprise Arizona. Brewing bio is generally pretty safe, you just need to take the proper precautions.

Desert Biofuels Initiative blog

Also check out this free manual on home brewing biodiesel. Lots of great information on getting your bio on.

Today is blog action day 2008 and the topic is poverty. So what can you do to help fight poverty? Here’s 88 ways you can do something about it right now.

Eat meatless meals 2x a week. Donate that grocery money to a local food bank. – TarotByArwen

Be homeless for a day/night. – Lex

Stop putting off adopting a child through an organization like Compassion International (or adopt another one). – Lex

Make a loan on Kiva, or buy a couple gift certificates and give them away to friends. – Lex

Get a group together to go door-to-door collecting canned foods for your local soup kitchen/shelter. – Lex

Take a homeless person to dinner and actually sit/talk with him. – Lex

Stop being lazy. Find a way to do your job better so that you can save an hour a day, or be that much more productive. – Alex Shalman

Stop buying junk to make yourself look pretty and donate it to homeless people and hungry people. – Craigsnede

Make flyers to stick in the local library. – Craigsnede

If you have a musical instrument you no longer use, donate to the still-struggling musicians and students in New Orleans, who are still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. A few great organizations that will accepts musical instruments are Tipitina’s Foundation (www.tipitinasfoundation.org) and The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund (www.nomrf.org/donations.html).

For the complete list follow this link:


http://site.blogactionday.org/poverty/fight-poverty/

Helping out your own community is probably one of the best ways you can help out. Here’s a list of Arizona charities.

Watch this video for a little inspiration.

This sounds like fun, will definitely have to check it out.

Meet representatives from student and local organizations, learn what’s going on in the community, and find out how you can get involved.

• Student Sustainability Fair, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Hayden Lawn
• Ed Hermes, ASU graduate and candidate for Maricopa County Supervisor, speaks about getting involved locally, 12 PM, Hayden Lawn
• Short Film Series, 6-8pm, GIOS 481

GIOS Events Calendar