Chris Tackett
Chris Tackett manages social media strategy and partnerships for TreeHugger. Chris joined the team in early 2008 and was also a part of Discovery's Planet Green network. Prior to Discovery and TreeHugger, Chris worked for The Raw Story and Lawrence.com as a writer and advertising manager. He has a degree in Journalism and Strategic Communications from The University of Kansas' William Allen White School of Mass Communication. When he's not working on TreeHugger, he likes to follow politics, camp, ride his bike, take pictures and learn to keep his plants alive.
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Latest Stories from Chris Tackett - Page 10
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Eco Market is like Etsy for Eco
Eco Market is bringing together organic and natural product producers in what has been called an "Etsy for Eco" model.
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Mother Jones lists 6 ways the sequester hurts the environment
Congress is about to allow unnecessary and self-imposed budget cuts negatively impact a whole host of important government programs. Mother Jones notes the potential environmental damage.
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Meet Bill McKibben, the man behind the climate movement
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice profile of 350.org founder and climate activist, Bill McKibben.
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"Now is time to choose sides" on Keystone XL
Michael Grunwald at TIME explains why he's standing "with the tree huggers" on the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Toxic nuclear waste leaking from Washington dump
CBS News has a startling report on a toxic leak at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, which they call "the most contaminated nuclear site in the country."
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Kid writes cute letter returning sticks to Yosemite
Well, this is just adorable. A young child accidentally took two sticks from Yosemite National Park and wrote a cute letter apologizing and returning the sticks.
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Why I love, but won't buy, the Instagram camera
Polaroid and Socialmatic are teaming up to produce the Instagram camera. It looks cool, but is it a good idea?
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Why fossil fuel divestment is key to climate progress
Bill McKibben has a must-read post at Rolling Stone explaining the strategic logic of pressuring universities to divest from the fossil fuel industry
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Hans Rosling debunks myths of child birth and the "developing world"
The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.
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The deadline is approaching for the UNEP / TreeHugger blogging contest!
Time is running out to enter! Win a trip to Mongolia for World Environment Day by entering our annual contest!
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Making beautiful bikes from junked cars
Bicycled is a slick new project about making bikes from junked cars.
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How insurance industry can help fight climate change
Jim Malewitz at Stateline reports on the role the insurance industry can help reduce loses by addressing climate change.
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Even Rupert Murdoch thinks Keystone XL is a dumb idea
As Think Progress notes, even Rupert Murdoch acknowledges that the Keystone XL pipeline is a dumb idea.
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How the US Navy is going green
Mother Jones has a good feature on how the United States military is helping push the clean energy revolution forward.
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BP oil spill trial starts today.
The trial over the BP oil spill begins today and it may become the biggest civil trial in history.
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Is Keystone worth the fight?
David Roberts has an excellent rebuttal to those that argue the fight over Keystone XL pipeline is not worth the fight.
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The most important climate science paper
Want to understand why climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced? Read this six page paper.
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What do Canadians think of Keystone XL and tar sands?
The climate movement is growing in the US, but what do Canadians think of their role in exacerbating climate change?
