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 12
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How to Stop Global Warming with CRAGs: Jargon Watch
CRAGs -- or Carbon Rationing Action Groups, are support groups dedicated to taking action to stop global warming through careful tracking of personal carbon emissions. Mostly in the UK, the groups set ambitious goals to cut back on carbon emissions, and
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One Good Chair: Furniture Design Competition
They're looking for one good chair. Recognizing that the furniture design industry is becoming more environmentally aware when it comes to manufacturing and materials, but acknowledging that the shape hasn't innovated along with it, One Good Chair is a
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Kitchen Design for the Future: Whirlpool's Green Kitchen Concept
Take a moment to gaze into the crystal ball at Whirlpool's recently unveiled green kitchen design concept. Taking everything that you need from a kitchen and integrating it into a smart, efficient system, the concept promises to cut way back on waste
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City of Seattle Gives Bottled Water the Boot
First San Francisco banned it. Then Chicago started taxing it. Now, the city of Seattle is taking action against bottled water; last week, Mayor Greg Nickels signed an executive order to stop the city from buying bottled
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Steelcase Walks the Green Walk, Buys Naming Rights to Wind Farm
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for companies willing to back up their green talk with a little green walk; at a time when "going green" is more popular than ever, it's easy to get bogged down in marketing double-speak and greenwashing. Today,
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Green Stats: 19,795
10,779 -- Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on health care.
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Best Green Place to Live in America: Country Home Magazine Ranks 'Em
The data has been logged; the numbers have been crunched, and, after a nationwide study on green living, Corvallis, Oregon (Hey, that's where I live. Look at that.) has been named the Best Green Place to live in America by Country Home Magazine. The
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Transformer Furniture: Braun Woodline Expanding Table
TreeHugger approves of objects that expand, fold out or otherwise transform to increase their usability in our lives; the more we can get out of the stuff we interact with every day, the fewer things and less space we need, right? Dining tables are
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TH Forums Highlights: Retrofit for Green, Building Green + More
1) New Forums user Damien Jones (welcome!) is looking to do some green retrofitting: "The basic question I have is whether it is better to retrofit my 1970's bungalow (2x4 framing) with a geothermal/geoexchange system or to re-insulate/side it and
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Get Aeroponic Gardening Advice at the AeroGarden Forums
Though gardening season is just about upon us, if you don't have a plot or a green thumb, and prefer the idea of growing with air in your kitchen to getting dirt under your fingernails, then perhaps the AeroGarden is for you; you may recall we covered
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Hanger Chair + Inflatable Table = Small Space Fun by Philippe Malouin
TreeHugger loves folding and flat-packing chairs for their ability to fold up (or even hang up) to get out of the way, so we like the space-saving designs from Philippe Malouin. The Hanger Chair, (pictured above) an elegant combination of coat hanger
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Liteplug: LED Nightlight + Emergency Flashlight
Designed to help keep the lights on during and after the frequent earthquakes (and resulting power outages) in Japan, "Liteplug" is a combination motion-sensing nightlight/emergency flashlight. Leave it plugged in to the wall, and, as it gets dark when
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TH Forums Highlights: Recycling Plastic Bottles, Starting a Farmstead + More
1) Forums user NReiter has a question about some recycling rumors for the community: "and im not sure this is true...but I've heard that water bottles do not get recycled if they have the caps still on them..is there any truth in that ? also, anything
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BuyGreen: Desks and Workstations
The right desk is an essential part to any green workplace; it has a small footprint, so it doesn't take up too much space; its just the right size to allow you to spread out, without getting cluttered; and it has a place for everything you need, so
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Quote of the Day: Method Co-Founder Adam Lowry, on Green Style
What the style element does is it creates mass market relevance for a green product. And I'm not just talking about Method right now, although that is very much our strategy. We're not the first company to think cleaners should be green, but we are
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Transformer Furniture: Dwell's Convertible Coffee Table
Aside from offering a neat trick at your next dinner party, transformer furniture offers a great two-for-one deal; it allows us to live better in less space and use fewer resources doing so (which makes it a triple threat, I guess, if you count the
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No Wood Left Behind: Brooklyn's 4Korners Design
Predicated on the idea that "there is always a better way," Brooklyn-based 4Korners has a small collection of furniture that combines sustainable materials and smart design to create sleek, efficient designs. We like the looks of the credenza, which,
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Design Green Now: Tour Coming to the West Coast
West Coasters, take note: Design Green Now, a small tour and series of panel discussions about sustainable design and greening consumer products, is coming to a venue near you. Starting April 1 in Bellingham, WA and ending April 11 in Long Beach, CA,
