Manuel said:
"This is great news! I hope all cities pass this into law.The practice of using plastic bags just to quickly dispose of them has been going on far t..." [read]
Jay Knecht said:
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gazelle said:
"@ Dallas:
The book, and the supplementary videos in the "How It All Ends" youtube series, address this in detail, but I'll try to paraphrase:..." [read]
Barry said:
"Kofi Annan has about as much of a clue about electric cars and developing countries as Ann Ann the Panda.
He underestimates the ingenuity o..." [read]
JJ said:
"Very cool. I didn't thought that biodesel might be our future fuel...." [read]
Derek said:
""I guarantee you this will spark huge debates around the world," she said. "We have to delve into this in a way that hasn't been done in a long tim..." [read]
Local indigenous dance group Rulan Tangen and Dancing Earth use costumes and sets made of recycled and organic materials. Photo via the Santa Fe Art Institute Blog.
A year-long show focusing on the four elements is bringing well-known environmental artists to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to create new works and engage with the community in what appears to be an up-and-coming hub for recycled and other eco-friendly art.
Jessica Biel, Kenna, and Emile Hirsch attend Summit on the Summit premier at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in NYC. Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Wireimage
We have been covering the Summit on the Summit expedition, to raise awareness of the global clean water crisis, since it was first announced back in September. Actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Isabel Lucas; musicians Lupe Fiasco and Kenna; Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of the legendary Jacques-Yves Cousteau; and other environmental activists and celebrities climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (13,640 ft) this past January. The documentary film following their trek premieres tonight on MTV (9/8c)--see who makes it to the top! Watch the trailer, after the jump:
It's shouldn't take a gorgeous super model and her rather handsome NFL husband to convince you to participate in this year's Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27 at 8:30 pm, but it certainly doesn't hurt. From time zone to time zone, the world's citizens will be turning off their lights. Giselle and Tom have their candles ready, do you?
Risk assessment is hard. We humans are hard-wired with many cognitive biases that can often distort our perception of reality and make us fear the wrong things. For example, on average, people will be more afraid of something with which they are unfamiliar compared to something that they see every day. Cars fall into the "familiar" category, and to remind us of the risk associated with driving, the nice people are the Infrastructurists made a really cool infographic that shows how cars are killing people around the world.
On Thursday, the Trust for Public Land released a roster of Hollywood A-listers and companies--including Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, the Walt Disney Company, the LucasFilm Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros., Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, and Time Warner--who have collectively donated more than $3 million to save one iconic piece of land: Cahuenga Peak.
Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron reveal Jillian Granz's winning sustainable dress at Global Green's Pre-Oscar Party. Photo: Cerraeh Laykin
I know, the dress looks blue—Avatar blue to be exact. But, it's actually about 85% green. The Red Carpet Green Dress Contest was created by Suzy Amis Cameron, wife of Avatar director James Cameron, to send a message that one can wear green on the red carpet. In addition to designing Oscar-worthy gowns out of sustainable fabrics, the contest also serves as an international fundraiser event for her beloved MUSE Elementary.
For all of those suffering Olympic withdrawal (that means most Canadians) we bring you the Memory Marathon. It's part of the cultural offerings of London's upcoming summer Olympics in 2012. It is about the importance of personal memories, in this case those of past Olympics.
The artist Simon Pope walked a specially planned 26 mile marathon through the five London boroughs where the Olympics will take place. He spoke to hundreds of people, passing the torch, which was a microphone in his case, and recorded their recollections of past Olympics.
Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantly, the film has not been—and likely never will be—released in the United States. This means that American viewers are relegated to ingesting the film in 10-minute segments via YouTube.
"Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it's becoming mainstream"
Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist Michael Musto. They did a video interview about cycling in NYC and using the good old bicycle as primary transportation. Michael has been riding around NYC for 25 years and he's seen things change quite a bit, from a time when nobody rode to now, with lots of new riders and a growing number of bike lanes. It's a great interview, very inspirational. Makes me want to go out and ride my bike! Via StreetFilms. See also: Crunching the Numbers ($$$) on Bike Commuting...
A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar.
What does "sustainability" mean to you? That's the question that JPG Magazine, a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online community, who posted hundreds of images of peaceful landscapes, freshly grown vegetables, bicycles, wind farms, and, well, a few fairly inexplicableoddities too.
The magazine's editors picked 10 photographs they thought best illustrate "strides people are making toward becoming sustainable; whether it's a big change in your community or a small tweak to your daily routine" -- images that they've allowed us to showcase here, along with some additional submissions we also liked.
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+ Is Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory.
+ Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.'s Robert Kenner, Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just some of the Oscar red-carpet attendees decked in sustainable style.
+ How our little Herminone has grown! British starlet Emma Watson and People Tree recently launched "Love From Emma," a collection of fair-trade, eco-friendly clothes for the tween and teen set.
+ Lily Allen is quitting the music scene and opening up a boutique that will rent high-end fashions to the common folk.
Ecouterre is a website devoted to the future of clothing and textile design. We're dedicated to showcasing and supporting designers who not only contemplate cut, form, and drape, but also a garment's social and environmental impact, from the cultivation of its fibers to its use and disposal. Follow us on Twitter @ecouterre or join us on Facebook....
It has been another fabulous season for ethical fashion and all of us green bloggers are delighted to see the ethical designers' collections going from strength to strength. From New York to London to Paris there have been some truly desirable fashion forward pieces for Autumn Winter 2010. Emma Grady did an amazing job of covering New York Fashion Week, I was here for the London Estethica show and we're so pleased our friend Jasmin Malik Chua captured the extraordinary Chanel show in Paris this week over at Ecouterre - let's take a look at that imported iceberg! ...
Just in time for South Africa to host the World Cup, a group of Harvard students have created a way to provide energy from a soccer ball. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the sOccket.
The Caribbean nation of Anguilla may be lush with tropical forests but it lacks the farms to eat fresh fruits and veggies. Enter hydroponic farming.
If you're into equality and all things green, definitely have a look at this contest from The Faces of Grassroots.
More great stories after the jump!...
Image credit: Funny or Die
TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before, and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores, but we've never done much on electric chainsaws. I'm thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface dons his cruelty-free mask and pays us a visit. Although if this serial killer's competence is anything to go by, maybe we don't have anything to worry about. ...
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise. Packaging has become a visible problem to all of us, and although governments tent to push towards packaging reduction and recycling, re-using consumer packaging should not be underestimated in order to protect the environment. In the book "Designing for Re-Use, The Life of Consumer Packaging", Tom Fisher and Janet Shipton analyse the "open-loop re-use", where more than one re-use of the packaging is possible, and not necessarily intended by the designer.
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Cyclists assemble in Yerevan, Armenia, for a bike tour to Teghut Forest. Photo by Ruzanna Hovasapyan via ride-earth on Flickr.
Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, surely the world's most famous Armenian-American rock star, sent a message of support for their campaign and promised to donate a song to the cause....
Suggests New "Take Turns" Sign
In this short video (4.27 mins), Gary Lauder makes a convincing case for better road design to help burn less fuel, save time, and save lives. He does the math for a simple "T" intersection that has three stop signs instead of one, and it turns out that it's an amazingly wasteful design (just imagine how many of those there is around the world!). Some of the conclusions: A new type of sign is needed to tell drivers to "take turns" when someone is already at the intersection, and roundabouts are much more efficient and safer than regular intersections. Via TED. See also: Autocentric Development was a Mistake, Let's Fix It (Video)...
Photo via Sheerman-Chase
I can't wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can't. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that the science supporting climate change is being 'called into question'. As a result, we're seeing more calls for televised 'debate' than usual, especially from outlets already convinced that global warming is a big hoax. So what's a climate scientist to do when s/he's asked by a skeptic to appear on Fox News to defend the vast scientific consensus that human activity is warming global temperatures from the latest assault on the science?
Say no....
We're excited to welcome British author and green marketing guru John Grant back to the top of our reading list. His latest offering 'Co-opportunity' invites us all to "Join up for a sustainable, resilient, prosperous world." In his recent Change Makers interview John said, "I actually think green should be a bi-product of us living co-operatively together; with the maximum well being and genuine cultural progress gained from the least resources. It could be a new 'elegance' - low effort, conscious life design." We definitely agree and we're delighted that 'Co-opportunity' is choca block full of 'elegant life design'....
Image credit: eBay
"Going green" may be turning into a tired refrain for those that have been working hard to decrease their environmental footprint for years. To corporate America, however, the phrase has just as much vibrancy as ever. At the end of February, Walmart announced a plan to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from the lifecycle of its products by 20 million metric tons by 2015. Now, eBay has launched a new portal to help shoppers make eco-minded decisions.
To promote the flashy new site, eBay is offering to protect one acre of rainforest for the first 250,000 people that pledge to reuse through their online auctions. As impressive as this offer is, the interesting part of eBay's new initiative is that they are offering a completely new framework for shoppers....
Photo via The CoveThe Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar, and now it just might turn into a new TV Series on Animal Planet starting this fall. ...
Image of a traditional tombstone with an RFID tag that carries a little more personal data. Via Objecs.Objecs is selling its Personal Rosetta Stone passive RFID-enabled data tags as an addition to a loved one's tomb stone - you can enter the person's name and choose some represetative symbols, perhaps a small epitaph via the web - then you embed the tag into a larger traditional tombstone. But as green burials grow more common and land for huge cemetaries shrinks, perhaps the company's other product - tag-embedded mini tablets - will become a more standard way to memorialize yourself or those you love, instead of space-hogging tombstones. ...
Image via The Cove
Congrats to The Cove and the entire team who made this world-changing documentary. The movie exposes the dolphin slaughter happening in Japan by doing some Mission-Impossible-style footwork to film the annual killing at one of Japan's most notorious hunting grounds in Taiji, Japan. The film has made a huge splash worldwide, even in Japan, and has impacted the start date, and the quota of dolphins and whales killed during last year's September hunt. They progressed even further by winning the award for "Best Documentary Feature" at last night's Oscars ceremony, but not without some great activism, and unfortunately, a cut-off speech. ...
FEED Haiti Oscar swag bag. Credit: B3 Oscar nominees, presenters, and performers took their pick of goody bags last night at the Academy Awards; attendees were offered gifts ranging from a Tiffany crystal-studded cat collar to tickets on an African safari, according to the Daily Mail. One swag bag that didn't break the bank-- this years bag worth £61,000 is the most expensive in history--was a FEED Haiti by Lauren Bush gift bag worth $200 given to 100 of the attendees, including Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Sarah Jessica Parker, and others. Find out what else is in the bag, after the jump....
Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron's green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck
Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple years ago, retro Chanel was all the rage, which was a great idea, until Reese Witherspoon discovered hers wasn't a one-and-only dress, as she'd been told, and her '50s number showed up on somebody else. These are problems we don't have to worry about, thankfully. To avoid the whole thing, actress Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of Avatar's James Cameron) held a contest for her Oscar "green" gown. Guess what color it is? ...
Installing earth tubes at Aldo Leopold Center. Photo: from Renew magazineDumb Roofs
Renew magazine for Jan - Mar covers a lot of ground in its 106 pages on "technology for a sustainable future." But for me the stand-out article covers a subject dear to my heart. The dumbest idea in Australian architecture - black or dark grey roofs.*
We get a bucketload of sun in this country. Just recently several of our major coastal cities had consecutive days over 40°C (104°F). What are the best colours to attract the hot sun's rays? Black and dark grey. It's madness. We're building houses to be be ovens and solve the problem by whacking in air conditioners, with all their attendant issues of expensive running costs and significant greenhouse gas concentrations....
Photo via EcoStiletto
Actress Gabrielle Anwar--most famous for her Scent of a Woman tango with Al Pacino and her current role on USA's Burn Notice knows that the lessons you learn as a kid are the ones most likely to stay with you--whether that means teaching her daughter that acting isn't all that glamourous or instilling good, green habits at a young age. ...
Source: Merkley and Partners
This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood's brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called "Tree of Innovation" which stars the S400 HYBRID and showcases the company's expanding repertoire of environmentally oriented vehicles. The ad is the first to feature the new "voice" for Mercedes-Benz USA's advertising, Jon Hamm, the Golden Globe winning star of the TV series Mad Men. The 30-second "Tree of Innovation" spot opens on a majestic 250 year-old tree in a beautiful, lush environment with dozens of glittering glass frames containing images of Mercedes-Benz innovations hanging from its branches. Under the tree is an S400 HYBRID....
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A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise. Packaging has become a visible problem to all of us, and although governments tent to push towards packaging reduction and recycling, re-using consumer packaging should not be underestimated in order to protect the environment. In the book "
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Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron's green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck
Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney's high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple years ago, retro Chanel was all the rage, which was a great idea, until Reese Witherspoon discovered hers wasn't a one-and-only dress, as she'd been told, and her '50s number showed up on somebody else. These are problems we don't have to worry about, thankfully. To avoid the whole thing, actress Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of Avatar's James Cameron) held a contest for her 
Installing earth tubes at Aldo Leopold Center. Photo: from Renew magazine
Dumb Roofs
Renew magazine for Jan - Mar covers a lot of ground in its 106 pages on "technology for a sustainable future." But for me the stand-out article covers a subject dear to my heart. The dumbest idea in Australian architecture - black or dark grey roofs.*
We get a bucketload of sun in this country. Just recently several of our major coastal cities had consecutive days over 40°C (104°F). What are the best colours to attract the hot sun's rays? Black and dark grey. It's madness. We're building houses to be be ovens and solve the problem by whacking in air conditioners, with all their attendant issues of expensive running costs and significant greenhouse gas concentrations....
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