The green goods

Cool green stuff we stumbled across this week
Kensington Market’s Left Feet and Heart On Your Sleeve will be hosting its first annual vegan chili cook-off this Saturday in support of homeless outreach. Amateur foodies, in addition to local restaurants Urban Herbivore, Sadie’s Diner and the Magic Oven will compete to find who’s got the best vegan chili in Toronto.

An impressive line up of design talent is supporting sustainable clothing, with Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, Narcisco Rodriguez, Donna Karan, Burberry, Jil Sander, Versace, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein showing off one-of-a-kind eco-couture at Earth Pledge’s FutureFashion show on January 31 in NYC.

Chevrolet will provide a fleet of fuel-friendly Tahoes and Suburbans (consisting of a mix of E85-fueled flex-fuel models and Two-Mode hybrids) to transport celebrities to the red carpet for the 2008 Grammy Awards.

The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games could be one of the most climate-friendly games in history if it follows recommendations set out in a new David Suzuki Foundation report.

Mac users that like widgets now have one more desktop button to glance at before closing the laptop and heading outside to walk, ride or drive. An improved Ontario Air Quality Index (AQI) widget harvests info from the provincial Ministry of the Environment’s posted data and displays the most recent rating for a location of your choice in a compact colour-coded button on your desktop.