And improve your French ! France, land of better wine in the world, beautiful women, Tour de France, bling-bling president, Art of living. France which as a country can give birth to the better or worse.
Let’s talk about the better today, let’s open the JAK LAB #3 . Every quarter JAKLAB magazine offers a 360° vision about a theme or an aspirationnal trend. JAKLAB invites contributors and gives them room and time to explore and talk. Strategic planners, researchers, writers, artists, photographers, architects are creating an effervescent on line webzine. Monitored friendly by Just A Kiss  founders, a design, creative and strategic agency in Paris, JAKLAB is an open publication and platform.
After Desirable Sunstainability, Absolute Necessity , give a breath to your eyes and brain and involve your senses in Urbanity. If you want to contribute to the next issue, please feel free to “superpoke” this unique quartet on their Facebook group.  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11026998211 !  Have fun !  Brigitte Mantel .

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Preparing for a “green” shoot…

For the past few weeks I have been researching eco-villages and methods of sustainable living in preparation for a shoot with Erik Snyder on green families and home life. For all of the research geeks out there I thought I’d share some of the interesting resources I’ve come across. First, a definition of an eco-village:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage

An amazing tool for locating eco-villages all over the world:

http://ena.ecovillage.org/English/resources/index.html

My new favorite green publication, I’m now a subscriber!

www.homepower.com

For the fashion-conscious greenie, a few top tips on greening your wardrobe from Tree Hugger:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/11/how_to_green_yo_12.php#top10

A few zero energy homes – great potential shoot locations:

http://www.zeroenergy.com//p_truro.html

http://www.zeroenergy.com//p_modlake.html

http://www.zeroenergy.com//p_pittsfield.html

The goal of our shoot is to capture the community spirit of the early adopters of green living in a way that is compelling and identifiable to a broader audience. For example, gardens are very green:

Living a green life is perceived by many as inconvenient and foreign. I hope to show the smaller steps that can be taken in daily life and portray how those steps can actually improve one’s quality of life.

I think the images below are good starts as visual references. What do you think? All suggestions for shoot development welcome!

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