bpm magazine: Green living with techy style

If the Green Guide magazine is too big a dose of green for you, maybe bpm (beats per minute) magazine's more your style.  Each issue of this "music.tech.nightlife.style" magazine's got a sizable green section on the back that reports on everything green and now, thanks to a collaboration with green lifestyle site The G Living Network.

bpm brings pop culture together with environmentalism. There's an article about Shepard Fairey of "Obey Giant" fame, making The 11th Hour posters. There's a feature on green L.A. gallery Eco-Logical Art. TempoHousing, stackable little homes, gets an article too, as do Illy insta-cafes made entirely from recycled materials.

Tightwads might not like bpm, because -- sort of like Wired -- the magazine reports on the newest goods and gadgets -- which tend to be higher-end, design-oriented, pricy stuff as opposed to more quotidian, practical green goods. In many ways, bpm and gliving are about exposing eco-potentialities as opposed to giving DIY eco-advice.

Some articles are really more about popular stuff with a barely-green slant. A few issues ago, Avalon Hollywood was featured as a music venue  going green, but really, Avalon was making only the teensiest steps: recycling, using 25% recycled paper, and switching to CFLs -- after each incandescents burns out. And in the latest issue, a blurb about Blackle -- a website that's basically the Google homepage turned black -- doesn't include the fact that the black screens only save energy on old CRT computer screens.

Still, the mag's generally a fun, informative read -- and available for free reading online! The current issue includes a review of MOMA's pre-fab exhibit and a feature on the newest and coolest bikes. Check it out for yourself.