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This month's Green Drinks is kicking the New Year off with some eat-right type resolutions. Salila Travers, organizer of the Sunset Valley Farmer's Market and owner of Aztec Organic Pest Service for over 25 years, will be on tap to share her passion for organic foods and nutritional expertise with the environmentally aware and sustainability professionals that make up Austin Green Drinks.

Image from www.sustain-a-ball.org Sustainable Shopper’s Ball, "Have a Green, Green Christmas!" FestivalSaturday, December 1Burger Center (3200 Jones Road)9am-2pm, FREE[info]It's time for the second annual Sustainable Shopper's Ball Green Holiday Festival! Over 60 local vendors will be at the Sunset Valley Farmer's Market at Burger Center this Saturday with plenty of sustainable products and gift ideas to choose from. You can finally buy that sun oven for your brother-in-law, or an electronic motorcycle for yourself. You...

Photo from Soundcheck Magazine Austin's 2nd Annual Green Holiday Festival, "The Sustainable Shopper's Ball!", returns to the Sunset Valley Farmers Market with over 60 local vendors and educators offering everything from bamboo homewares to luxury organic linens SXSW Film Festival Producer Matt Dentler shares some insider tips on what the film programming team is looking for - "Should you spend money on a fancy press kit? Should you check your DVD screener 4 different times...

Anyone interested in learning about the farm bill, buying some sustainable grass-fed beef and fresh local eggs and long beans, or just finding somewhere nice to walk around with a fair-trade, locally-roasted coffee should consider heading to one of Austin’s farmers markets this Saturday. Figs, apples, pears, purple long beans, green beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash blossoms, greens, basil, garlic, shallots, onions, and summer squash are among the fresh seasonal picks available at the markets this...

Kermit the Frog was right: It’s not easy being green. We find it extremely difficult to “think green” when the 100-degree heat is turning everything brown. The truth is, despite the current crisping of our landscape, Austin holds its own in its greenness as one of the most environmentally conscientious cities in the world.

A few weeks ago, we told you about the Sustainable Shopper's Ball, a local pro-green organization that holds occasional outdoor market festivals at the Sunset Valley Farmers Market, one of Audobon Magazine's top ten FMs in the country.

It must be the season because we are hearing a lot about strawberries lately. If you love a good strawberry (and who doesn't?), you might want to take a drive out to the Sunset Valley Farmer's Market Saturday, April 29th, between 9:30am and 1:00pm. There you will find strawberry pies, shortcakes, strawberry salsa, strawberry jam, and probably even a few fresh strawberries. Sunset Valley Farmer's MarketToney Burger Center 3200 Jones Road (on 290 West...

We were just browsing around treehugger.com, when found out about a green-friendly event happening around these parts tomorrow: the Sustainable Shopper's Ball is an Austin-based pro-green organization that promotes local "businesses, non-profit groups, and educators that contribute to the outstanding quality of life that Austin provides for its rapidly growing population." Tomorrow, at the Sunset Valley Farmers Market at Toney Burger Center, they're hosting their first-ever outdoor Green Living Festival, bringing together a bevy of...

Sometimes one finds oneself on the outskirts of town (say, shopping, um, at a mall) and one has the need to get dinner, like NOW. And also, one has a toddler so one can't just go anywhere. One needs a family friendly kind of restaurant. In this situation we usually head to Central Market, but we aren't anything if not totally sick of eating at Central Market. We don't care that they have a...