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 4
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PARK(ing) Day: Rethinking Urban Infrastructure Around the World (Slideshow)
Today is the fifth annual PARK(ing) Day, a day where artists, activists and citizens temporarily transform metered parking spaces in cities around the globe into public parks and other social spaces. It's pretty cool;
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PARK(ing) Day: Rethinking Urban Infrastructure Around the World
In cities around the globe today, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day.
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7 Things You Didn't Know About Organic Agriculture
Even a casual TreeHugger knows that organic food is a greener option for the planet, but there's a lot more to growing it than just planting seeds in the sun, watering the sprouts (and skipping the pesticides) and talking
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GPS Systems with Real-Time Traffic Data Can Save Drivers Four Days Per Year (and Lots of Carbon Emissions, too)
Getting stuck in traffic sucks. While traffic jams have an uncomplicated cause -- too many dang cars -- the solution isn't quite so simple; there's no getting away from them completely in the foreseeable future.
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A Green Winery Tour, From Grape to Glass: Visiting Sokol Blosser Winery (Slideshow)
Earlier this year, TreeHugger awarded Sokol Blosser Winery with the Best Green Winery award in our inaugural Best of Green Awards. We knew they were doing lots of different green things -- practicing organic viticulture, green building, and so forth --
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A Green Winery Tour, From Grape to Glass: Sokol Blosser Winery
Earlier this year, TreeHugger awarded Sokol Blosser Winery with the Best Green Winery award in our inaugural Best of Green Awards. We knew they were doing lots of different green things -- practicing organic viticulture, green building, and so forth -- bu
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Build a Geodesic Dome Solar Greenhouse to Grow Your Own Food (Slideshow)
What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live more than a mile above sea level in Colorado? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Living at 7,750 feet above sea level, with a summer
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Build a Geodesic Dome Solar Greenhouse to Grow Your Own Food
What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live here? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago: Living at 7,750 feet above sea level, with a summer growing season of 80 days, at best, between k
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The Benefits of Organic Farming (Slideshow)
Sure, organic farming leads to healthier food, but there are a host of benefits that going organic can provide to you and the planet. And the benefits aren't limited to just the actual food -- there are huge
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The Benefits of Organic Farming
Carbon Sequestration According to the Rodale Institute, organic agriculture can remove 7,000 pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere per acre every year. Keep reading to learn how the other benefits of organic farming relate to this pretty neat trick.
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The Wild Image Project by Photographer Daniel Fox (Slideshow)
Artist, photographer, and adventurer Daniel Fox has been wandering about Argentina, among other places, snapping nature photographs with his camera. The result: The Wild Image Project, a traveling art show
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The Wild Image Project by Photographer Daniel Fox
Artist, photographer, and adventurer Daniel Fox has been wandering about Argentina, among other places, snapping nature photographs with his camera. The result: The Wild Image Project, a traveling art show that showcases the tremendous beauty of the natur
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From Hives to Honey, Bees Help the World Go 'Round (Slideshow)
Bees might be the most interesting insects in the whole world. They're great architects, accidental chefs of some of the sweetest stuff on Earth, and, oh yeah, have a hand in almost the entire world's food
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From Hives to Honey, Bees Help the World Go 'Round
Bees might be the most interesting insects you'll ever see, and not just because of their varied, bright colors and ability to fly. They're great architects, accidental chefs of some of the sweetest stuff on Earth, and, oh yeah, are help account for a hug
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A Year of Green, Seasonal Eating in Oregon (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about eating local, seasonal food, but that can be tricky to visualize in different places around the world, depending on the season, region, even the micro-climate. To help showcase eating what's
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A Year of Green, Seasonal Eating in Oregon
January: Turnips & Parsnips Where they came from: My year starts with these root vegetables from the local winter farmers' market, which I feel lucky to have. It's open every other Saturday, rather than every week during the summer, so it requires a littl
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Packaging Design at Its Best (Slideshow)
As noted in the previous slideshow about packaging design at its worst, designing and implementing packaging can go horribly, horribly wrong. Thankfully, there's a greener side to the equation, where fewer, greener materials meet with clever design --
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Packaging Design at Its Best
One of the greenest ways to do packaging is to incorporate it into the product. lite2go by knoend, San Francisco-based designers who effectively created a functional lighting system while practically eliminating any waste that would ordinarily come with u
