THTV: Alexandra Cousteau on Inextricably Linked Energy & Water - Interview Part 1 of 2 (Video)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:28 GMT

After the recent announcement of the Live Earth 'Run For Water,' Treehugger Emma sat down with Alexandra Cousteau for a chat at The Lighthouse on the shores of the beautiful Hudson estuary.

Water and energy are Inextricably linked: without water we cannot produce energy, and without energy we cannot deliver water.

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THTV: Bill McKibben On 350, Winning Change & Encouraging Signs

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:47:56 GMT

Last spring, the day after PowerShift 2009, I caught up with Bill McKibben in NYC. Tired and exhilarated, Bill shared the feeling of having won the victory of shutting down the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington D.C. Well guess what? The battle against GHG emissions is win-able. As long as we put a plus sign next to the number 350 to add what's missing.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

350.org Organic Cotton T-Shirts for October 24th International Day of Climate Action

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:35:39 GMT

Don some do-gooding duds for the 350 International Day of Climate Action with organic cotton t-shirts. Click through to purchase and folks in New York: please plan your day accordingly for the BROOKLYN BRIDGE WALK. When: Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 12pm Where: Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge (there is an open plaza area across from the entrance to the bridge)... Read the full story on TreeHugger

THTV: Pro Surfer Rob Machado on Indonesia, Wells & Drinking Water Part 2 (Video)

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:51:00 GMT

THTV: Rob Machado & Graham Hill -- The Drifter -- Part 2 from susty.tv on Vimeo.

Hot on the heals of yesterday's Live Earth Run For Water announcement from Kevin Wall and celeb supporters in do-goodness Jessica Biel, Alexandra Cousteau, and Pete Wentz comes this installment of THTV wherein TreeHugger founder Graham Hill and pro-surfer Rob Machado talk about Indonesia and access to safe drinking water.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

THTV: Pro Surfer Rob Machado is 'The Drifter' in New Surf Flick, Part 1 (Video)

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:07:57 GMT

THTV: Rob Machado & Graham Hill -- The Drifter -- Part 1 from susty.tv on Vimeo.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill sat down with professional surfer and now "drifter" Rob Machado. The film The Drifter follows Machado in Indonesia as he surfs and attempts to drop out a bit in order to get in touch with nature and ultimately himself. Most TreeHuggers are familiar with the increased resource strain brought about by the ever-increasing human population, and Machado's journey highlights some of the challenges as well as the opportunities of living in a crowded world. Trailer for The Drifter after the jump.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Google Data Center Uses No Chillers - Will It Soon Follow the Moon?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:02:01 GMT

A Google data center in Belgium is taking a cool, new approach to keeping from over-heating on hot days. The facility has no electricity-sucking chillers to support its cooling systems, relying instead on air from outside. Google anticipates this so-called "free cooling" for all but about seven days per year, but what's really fascinating is what happens when the weather gets hot.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Fabien Cousteau: Ocean Exploration, Industry & You

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:57 GMT

For World Ocean Day 2009 today, TreeHugger is bringing you special coverage such as the 9 biggest issues facing our seas, coral reef conservation as well as our announcement of Planet Green's Blue August on-air and on-line programming focusing on our world's oceans hosted by Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau. Now THTV brings you another member of the venerable family of ocean explorers, the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau with whom we spoke at a recent screening of the film Sea Ghosts.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

THTV: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Interview - Enviro Aerial Photography Beginnings (Part I)

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:59:42 GMT

Earth From Above aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Betrand speaks to THTV about how he began shooting from the skies. Siting Jane Goodall as "his hero," Bertrand tells of traveling to Africa to study lions. Needing to earn a living, he took a job on a hot-air balloon as a tour guide pointing out African wildlife to tourists. It was up, up, up from there! His landmark film Home opens today around on world on multiple platforms (theater, web, television). The film is being made entirely for free and 15% of proceeds from DVD sales go to Conservation International.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Green Economy Under Construction: State Department Action (Photos)

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:24:17 GMT

Apparently one of the dirty little secrets of fighting for a clean energy future (beginning right now, please : ) is that the pursuit can be downright fun. Although we couldn't make it to the State Department yesterday, the goings on in the photos sure do make us wish we could have stopped by, perhaps even with cool-o wind turbine effigy in hand. in addition to the good time had by the approx 150 people involved in the action, the organizers handed out quotes by people from around the world about their local green economy to Jonathan Pershing's (Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change) assistant. Check out the pictures of generation green fighting the good fight for an environmentally just world.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Clean Energy Jobs Vote in Conrgress Threatened - MoveOn.org Commercial (Video)

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:53:28 GMT

Clean American Dream Ad from MoveOn.org

Last week, the Obama administration offshore regulations for energy production were announced and during an Earth Day speech, President Obama held forth on the virtues of renewables (and clean coal?). Well a couple of years back, we told you about the now decade-old MoveOn organization petitioning the congressional vote of solar and wind, bill H.R. 969. Now in the '09, MoveOn has just sent out an email alert that Congress is about to begin voting on the biggest clean energy jobs plan in America to date, however siting two sources, the advocacy org says that it learned last week that a few conservative Democrats on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee are conspiring to weaken it. The group says that the Dem leader is threatening to block the bill from even reaching the House floor unless it's changed to make the coal industry happy-and delay America's switch to a clean energy economy. The video ad above is being run in the districts of three swing Democrats in Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle, Relate: A Post-Earth Day Manifesto

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:37:47 GMT

Environmental Journalist Simran Sethi, fresh from her appearance on Oprah and in the wake of Earth Week, reflects of the fourth "R": the critical component that relationships of all varieties play in greening the world with justice for all.

Environmentalism is about our relationship with and to our world. And as we all know, the best relationships are the ones we work on.

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Green Hard Hats Descend on State Department Today

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:47 GMT

If you happen to be passing by the State Department today around 12:45pm-1:30pm, or after reading this decide to intentionally stop by to lend your voice, you'll be greeted by a sea of green-hardhat-wearing campaigners calling for a environmentally focused economy and a binding global climate treaty. Climate advocacy groups will host a Green Economy Construction Zone outside the State Department on today Monday, April 27 during a meeting of the world's 17 largest economies working in collaboration to mitigate climate change. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Obama Promotes Wind Power on Earth Day (Video)

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:58:06 GMT

As the Obama administration creates the first U.S. program to authorize offshore projects to generate electricity from wind and ocean currents, the President deployed the Clean Coal word yet again. We hope this is part of the Obama M.O. of building bridges, getting buy-in and bailing our of a fool's enterprise but with a new team of allies board. Link to the transcript below.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

TH EXCLUSIVE: Amazing Newtown Pippin Apple, New York's Heirloom Hero (Video)

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:56:48 GMT

For Earth Day yesterday, TreeHugger TV dropped in at the Earth School on Manhattan's Lower East Side to listen in on a chat about New York City's own Newtown Pippin apple and to plant a seedling with the gradeschoolers. This "forgotten fruit," an NYC heirloom apple, was the favorite apple of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and loved by Benjamin Franklin and Queen Victoria, among others. A push is now being made to repopulate the city with these firm, tart, little beauties. Once one learns about their storied past, the breathtaking possibilities of their restoration to New York become crisp and clear: a step back in the right direction toward biodiversity, local food production and consumption, as well as perhaps becoming the jewel in the crown of remediation on America's most polluted waterway Newtown Creek. More amazing history and hear what Michael Pollan has to say about the Newtown Pippin when you let Newtonian physics pull you down through the fold.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Project Earth Day Eco Fashion Show - APRIL 23RD - 6PM (Video)

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:20:54 GMT

PROJECT EARTH DAY IS APRIL 23RD - 6PM The third-annual Project Earth Day fashion show is sure to be one of the hotter Earth Week events here in NYC and we should know having had the opportunity to get up close to the action and put together some videos of lovely green ladies in outstanding eco outfits. This annual event showcases the most innovative brands in sustainable design, and celebrates the best-of-the-best in the fashion, interiors, and green building industries. The video above covers the student competition and after the jump we have video of the runway show featuring some of the brightest stars in eco fashion design.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Win a Prius: Pledge to do One Thing That's Green Sweepstakes

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:02:04 GMT

Okay, we checked the fine print and it seems legit. JetBlue is spearheading this green sweepstakes for the grand prize of a 3rd Generation Toyota Prius along with some other very cool eco prizes. Seems easy enough to click over to the website and make your pledge, perhaps more difficult to stick to it, so please allow us to be the first so encourage you with a big Obama-era "Yes you can!" See a list of promises you'll have to make (and keep) as well as the complete list of prizes when you choose door number three to click through.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

BREAKING: Offshore Renewable Energy Regulations Announced by US Interior Department - Good News for the Cape Wind Project?

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:03:10 GMT

Obama welcomes "bold steps toward opening America's oceans and new energy frontier." The United States Interior Department just issued regulations governing offshore renewable energy projects that use wind, ocean currents and wave power for producing electricity. The offshore leasing rules for electricity production had stalled for two years over of a turf dispute as it were between governmental agencies, but that bottleneck has been broken. Advocacy organizations Clean Power Now and TheClean hail the Obama administration move as the biggest federal step forward for clean energy to date. But what about that nagging Cape Wind controversy? Details of the new rules of the water when you dive below.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Seven Green Sins of the City: Ben Jervey & NY Daily News Help the Earth

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:30:03 GMT

Eco-consultant and author Ben Jervey (The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City ) offers some eco-friendly suggestions to the New York Daily News. While we don't see anyone's current missteps as sins, we do heartily encourage taking any next green steps that one possibly can. So just what are those tiny, little steps?... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Stephen Colbert Report: MACA Urges Obamas to Use Pesticides in Organic Garden

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:31:05 GMT

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Eco-Palms NAFTA Outgrowth: Fair-Trade, Sustainable & Spiritual

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:06:45 GMT

Brahea berlandieri leaflet, transverse section Native range: Mexico Planted 15 JUN 1969, photographed 20 JUN 2006 by Jay W. Horn Currently alive in Fairchild plot 101B-E-8 Yesterday was Palm Sunday for Eastern Orthodox Christians whom worship under the guidance of the number one eco-leader of faith "the Green Patriarch." We told you about concerns over illegal harvesting and trafficking of Central America palms to Churches for Palm Sunday. On the susty flip side are "eco palms" from the Chamaedorea Palm Certification Project which certifies palms harvested from the forests of Mexico and Guatemala for sale to Christian congregations in the United States and Europe.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Zaproot Easter Special & Alternative Autos (Video)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:57:32 GMT

From the sublime (enviro quotations from theologians) to the mundane (eco Easter-egg-dyes) to the insidious (untested chemicals released to market) ZapRoot's Easter special has all that plus alternative automobiles you can out your faith into.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Yo! Whale Swims in Brooklyn: Humpback Spotted New York Harbor (Videos)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:46:44 GMT

A wayward whale swimming around in New York harbor provides the excitement which comes only with our reconnecting with our natural world - woot! The whale, possibly a humpback, was first noticed Wednesday and the coast guard set up a safety zone to protect the twenty-foot whale from collisions with commercial shipping vessels -- there's an awesome aerial shot with the beautiful beastie surrounded by four boats protecting it. Once more with feeling: four boats cradling it almost with palpable, technologically-enabled love. Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales' seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Prius Repossessed from Kooks Dressed-Up in Mediaeval Garb (Video)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:24:33 GMT

Unhand Thine Prius Seems like everyone wants a piece of the red-hot, green auto action these days in order to draw eyeballs to their content which in turn will snare advertisers to sponsor said content. Which begs the question: to what degree is the flogging of green cars a dog and pony show? Or to meet on its own terms the above clip, to what degree is it a Wizard and Princess show?... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Joke's on the Enviro Ministry: China to be Painted White to Fight Global Warming - Taking Cues from TreeHugger?

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:10:25 GMT

For April Fool's Day last week, TreeHugger's Alex Pasternack tells us that he rolled out of bed that day with gags spewing from his imagination for his post China Reveals Plans for Green-Colored "Suburb City." Well it seems a kindred spirit, and colleague of Alex's, quite coincidentally picked up on the real thing. Well, at least an April Fool's day prank tugging the leg of China's Environmental Ministry on an official government site: China to be Painted White to Fight Global Warming.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

ILVTOFU License Plate Rejected as Obscene: More PETA PR Fluff or Veggie Freedom of Speech Issue? (Video)

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:17:43 GMT

Colorado bans woman's tofu license plate By all accounts, this doesn't seem to be another PETA publicity stunt but rather, if you will, a rather organic occurrence: Colorado woman applies for the vanity plate ILVTOFU, is rejected by authorities on grounds that it might be read as I-LV-TO-FU.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Poland Geothermal & Hot Tubs with Eddie Murphy SNL Sketch (Videos)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:10:47 GMT

The Earth's crust in Poland is thinner that in other parts of the world thus making it easier to drill the heated water necessary for providing geothermal energy to homes and hot tubs. Geothermal in Poland is becoming a viable alternative to fossil fuels, but high costs and bureaucracy are providing some obstacles. Parts of the mountain resort Zakopane in southern Poland are heated using geothermal energy, although some people still need to burn coal in their stoves to keep warm. More after the jump; plus jump into "James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub" with Eddie Murphy courtesy of Saturday Night Live.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cardboard Empire State Building: From NYC Icon to American Idol of Energy Efficiency (Video, Photos)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:19:26 GMT

Yesterday, Matthew gave you the detailed rundown on Empire State Building Going Green: Major Energy Efficiency Improvement Retrofit Announced. Here's a video with some history on the NYC Icon, now striving to become the American Idol of energy efficiency achieved by means of retrofiting. The clip features the team from Rocky Mountain Institute and goes into the planning process. Bonus: check out photos of a cardboard, flat-pack Empire State Building after the jump.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

EcoBizNYC Sustainable Business Workshops Begin Tonight!

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:36:53 GMT

The Lower East Side Ecology Center provides NYC with a composting program and their e-waste recycling events held throughout the year (calendar of upcoming 2009 events here). Now they're presenting a new program called EcoBizNYC the mission of which is to help small businesses, students, and the general public to actively reduce air pollution, carbon emissions, and airborne environmental health hazards in NYC through environmental auditing, education, and action. The first workshop happens tonight, Tuesday, April 7. Amongst the many benefits on the table, free NYSERDA-certified energy audits. Nice.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Palm Sunday & Global Demand for Xate Threatens Belize's forests

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:12:05 GMT

This past Palm Sunday, Fauna and Flora International highlighted the overexploitation of palms in Central America in an attempt to raise awareness of the impact that global demand for palm leaves is having on some of the world's most pristine rainforests. We're no strangers to the intersection of religion and the environment, and we even told you about September 1: Eastern Orthodox Earth Day and The Green Patriarch. BTW, for Eastern Orthodox, Palm Sunday has yet to occur so we have yet another opportunity to reflect, or even pray if you will, on the seriousness of yet another threat to biodiveristy.... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Concept: CO2 Scrubber Wrist Watch

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:20:13 GMT

With discussion of using big-ass artificial trees to scrub-a-dub-dub CO2 from the atmosphere, here comes a little item for each of us to use: eCO2 is an athletic wrist watch, powered by kinetic energy, aiming to reduce individual carbon footprints by using CO2 scrubber technology. We know we need to bring down the level of atmospheric CO2 down to the acceptable level of 350 ppm to sustain life as we know it, but does this concept promise to be a key to individuals becoming responsible citizens of this planet or is it a hair-brained, resource-extraction and life-cycle intensive gizmo ultimately with a net-positive carbon wristprint?... Read the full story on TreeHugger

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