Hello. We're Shira and Ari Evergreen, creative treehuggers
in search of utopia. We live and work in Ithaca, New York.

A new site for a new sustainable toy company

Posted on April 3, 2013 by ari

We made this new WordPress for the very talented Ithaca-local Lily Silly, who’s having a Puppet Art show on Friday, April 5, First Friday, at Bloom. Lily will be showing her brand new puppets, all made from reclaimed materials and found objects at her off-grid homestead. The event is from 5-8pm and there may be a short puppet show.

This site’s custom Twenty Twelve child theme was a challenge because it incorporates a very busy background (made from photographs of some of Lily’s favorite fabric, and one of her puppets, and some shoelaces, and some photographic textures) with transparency and a mobile-friendly layout. Thanks to Lily for her patience while we got it all plugged together!

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Tompkins Time Traders: A new site for a new time banking network

Posted on March 30, 2013 by ari

Shira and I have been working with a local time banking effort for quite a while now, which is just about to enter an active recruitment phase. Here’s a simple little WordPress I put together for them, using the free Pytheas theme by WPExplorer. It serves as a portal to time banking software developed by hOurWorld.

We did this work (and are making a video) in exchange for time in the bank! You can join the bank to start logging your own time, which can be cashed in for services from other members – anything from dogwalking to permaculture consultation to, well, web design.

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Another new WordPress, for a local climate conference

Posted on March 30, 2013 by ari


Climate Smart & Climate Ready is a conference coming up in Ithaca, New York, April 18-21. Thanks to Sustainable Tompkins for bringing us in to help out with the WordPress! We built this quick WP using the responsive, mobile-friendly Twenty Twelve theme.

Click here to register for the Conference and click here to check out the schedule.

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Some new web work

Posted on March 13, 2013 by ari

Here’s a new Tumblr I set up for Tompkins County Workers Center, to go with the site we made for them.

And here’s a new site for Rabbi Sid Schwarz, which I helped him to finish and launch. I didn’t do the design work except for the slideshow — my work was mostly in integrating third party services, enhancing the site with plugins, and handling the launch and mailing list setup.

Please check out their work — these folks are awesome!

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Where has all the blogging gone?

Posted on March 13, 2013 by ari

We’re blogging elsewhere and haven’t been updating this one much! Here’s where to find the action:

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Help a village in Cameroon with a click

Posted on February 19, 2013 by ari

Okay, I’m kind of lying when I say “just a click.” Really it would be awesome if you could donate money! Even $5 would be a real help. But if you don’t have $5, please, at least forward this link. Let me tell you why! Read the rest of this post…

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Art ships for free

Posted on February 8, 2013 by ari

Click this special link to get free shipping on everything except for stretched canvases and art prints in our Society 6 shop, now thru February 10, 2013 at Midnight Pacific Time. Thanks for your support!

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Free shipping through Sunday night

Posted on January 10, 2013 by ari


Want something from our Society6 shop? Now’s your chance – use this special link for free shipping, now through January 13, 2013 at Midnight Pacific Time. (Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases.)

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Some new portraits

Posted on December 10, 2012 by ari

Recently I started offering portraits – here are two new ones! Thanks to Karen and Kimber for commissioning these.

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Free shipping in our Society6 shop

Posted on December 7, 2012 by ari


Click this special link to get free shipping in our Society6 shop, now thru December 9, 2012 at Midnight Pacific Time. (Sorry, this excludes Framed Art Prints and Stretched Canvases.)

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