Collin Dunn
Collin is a sustainability enthusiast living in Portland, Oregon. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he became involved in outdoor adventures like skiing, backpacking, hiking and mountain biking from an early age. Before coming to TreeHugger, he cut his enviro-teeth at Grist and Sustainable Style Foundation, both in Seattle, Washington.
When not busily TreeHugging, Collin is an enthusiastic cook, amateur gardener, and zealous explorer of Portland's vibrant food and beverage scene. He likes to spend time outside, learn where things come from, and once made 24 pounds of cheese for a single event (but not all in one day). Collin believes everyone can do something every single day to make the world a better place. He can be found on Google+ and can be reached at collin at treehugger dot com.
Latest Stories from Collin Dunn - Page 11
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Tommy Lee, Ludacris to Star in Planet Green's Battleground Earth
With a few notable exceptions, the hard-living, party-hearty, carbon-pumping world of rock 'n roll excess doesn't earn many green points. But that's going to change, thanks to Tommy Lee and Ludacris and a new show on Planet Green called Battleground
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Project H Delivering Water in Africa with Hippo Rollers
About 15 million people in Africa are without adequate access to drinking water, and Emily Pilloton is doing something about it. As the founder of Project H Design (and Managing Editor of Inhabitat), she's been busy proving that design can make a
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Take a Dive In a Virtual Dumpster
TreeHugger knows there's an art and a science to dumpster diving, and, even though one person's garbage can often be someone else's treasure, the idea of rooting through the trash isn't everyone's (free) cup of tea, even when there are things like
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Expandable Dining Table Flexes For Your Pleasure
TreeHugger has seen its fair share of transforming tables, but in our quest for objects that allows us to get more from less, this one offers a new trick. Rather than folding down or folding up (?), this one splits right down the middle, adding surface
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Stop Using This Product
Most products we encounter are designed to make us want to use them, to influence our behavior in a way that involves using it more. These aren't all bad -- things like fuel economy feedback are great positive behavior influencers -- but it's not often
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CNC Adjustable Rocking Chair Let's You Choose How to Rock
Designer Hongtao Zhou just wants to know one thing: "How do you like to rock?" Thanks to the efficiency of his chosen manufacturing method -- a computer numerically-controlled (CNC) router, which creates (theoretically -- unless you feed it fuzzy
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Can Design Make a Difference?
This is the question asked by Orange22 Design Lab's Blank Canvas Project, who commissioned some big-time designers to lend their talents and leverage social change. Each designer will create a new edition of Orange22's indoor-outdoor Botanist furniture
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How Does Solar Energy Work?
For as long as our planet has spun 'round the sun, there's been solar energy cascading down on the earth, and, for a long time -- since the 7th century B.C., when glass was used to magnify it -- humans have been working to
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Making the Connection Between Energy Consumption and Global Warming
"The average American uses 11,400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2,255 Watts of power, or a little less than 23 x100 Watt light bulbs.
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Cardboard Houses of the Future
From rocking the cardboard cradle to the cardboard coffin, there isn't much you can't do with cardboard. We've seen green furniture cut from cardboard, some called Bloxes and cardboard lighting and even cars made from the recyclable wunder-material,
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When Disposable Plates Are Green
Products like disposable chopsticks, disposable diapers and disposable coffee cups have often drawn TreeHugger's ire for adding more mass to the waste stream, and while compostable tableware and other biodegradable kitchen goods are a step in the right
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Now That's a Whole House Surge Protector
If you're haunted by phantom power (and who hasn't been pierced by vampire power?), the Climatised Objects Project has an answer: Standy, the monster surge protector. Since it's always in the middle of the room, the prototype solves the pesky problem
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Is Slow Food Movement a Contradiction in Terms?
The March 2008 issue of Metropolis magazine tackles the relationship between "local" and "sustainable" from a variety of angles, giving special treatment to the one
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Bunk Bed Building: Nested Bunk Beds Make Room for Playtime, Sleep 20
Designed as a way to create a living space for 7-8 people in 36 square meters (that's about 387 square feet), the "Nested Bunk Bed" is designed as a flexible solution to a common living situation in South Africa. The design, inspired by the iconic
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Bathroom Design Ideas: The 100 Mile Bathroom & Slow Design
First, it was slow food, the slow food movement and then slow homes and slow design in general. As slow food gained prominence, so too did the "100 mile diet" and local food, so it makes sense that the local focus would make its way to design as
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Apartment-Sized Furniture Trend Gets Bigger
We've been saying for awhile that less is more, and it appears that mainstream modern furniture design is catching on to the trend. When it comes to home interior design ideas, TreeHugger always thinks smaller is sexy; the
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An Explanation of the Water Cycle (with Pictures and Diagrams)
Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's
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REGREEN: Remodeling Guidelines to Re-Green Your Interior Design
Last week, at its annual conference in New Orleans, the American Society of Interior Designers released REGREEN, its set of guidelines for home remodeling with a shade of green.
