Tag: Charities - Page 5
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Recycled Cassette Tapes Worn at Global Green Awards
Global Green's Matt Petersen shows off his new suit made with old cassette tapes. Photos by Charley Gallay Global Green handed out its annual Millennium Awards last weekend, recognizing the EPA's 40th anniversary, green buildings and James Cameron's
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Training to Swim the English Channel: Really, Really Cold Water
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for
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Kevin Costner Might Have the Answer to the Oil Spill, Robert Redford Speaks Out, and More
If you've been wondering what Kevin Costner's been up to since his Waterworld and Field of Dreams days, you're about to find out: The actor has been working on a "high-speed centrifuge" device, called Ocean Therapy, that's designed
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Training to Swim the English Channel: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Swimmer
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds
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Adventure and Activism For Free: That's Wend Magazine
Before we launch into a review of the latest issue of Wend Magazine, we should allude to two events they are covering for the month of April. The first is Arbor Day on 30 April 2010. To promote this event
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Training to Swim the English Channel: Greening My Food
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds
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Big Cats and Dolphins win Humane Society Media Awards
Every year the Humane Society toasts Hollywood for good deeds at the Genesis Awards, a fundraiser that recognizes ethical
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Stand In Line (Joyfully) At The World's Longest Toilet Queue for World Water Day! (Video)
This might just be the one time you don't mind standing in line to use the restroom, and it's all thanks to World Water Day and a smart project called The World Toilet Queue. Oh yes, it might have felt like a world
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Charity:Water Launches $1.3 Million Effort for an "Unshaken" Haiti (Video)
Today, partly in honor of World Water Day, charity: water has launched a new campaign for Haiti called Unshaken. As the nonprofit notes, 1.3 million people were displaced from Port-au-Prince to the rural areas of Haiti, so they've selected eleven of
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Change the World for Better. Don't Leave Home Without That Thought.
"We're part of nature and as we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to wanna protect nature." So starts this short advert for the American
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Global Green's Pre-Oscar Party Guest Hosted by James Cameron
Across the street from Capitol Records' tower, outside the Avalon Hollywood club, a line of green autos included the Tesla, Prius and luxury Audi A3 TDI from LA Car Guy, the
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Horny Toad Activewear: Every Spring Collection is An Adventure
Horny Toad is a Californian based outdoor lifestyle clothing company, with an often whimsical edge to their marketing. Check out the video (after the fold) of a typical day at work for the Toadsters. The company
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Top Stories from Tonic: Inside 'We Are the World', Getting Deep at Sundance, The Future of Travel, Football's New Green Stadium, and More!
Josh Groban gave us an inside look at how the incredible remake of the song "We Are the World" went down in Los Angeles. "The vast number of artists and the breadth of genres represented there was unbelievable." KC Baker has the full story on how the
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Bike Riding 7 Year Old Raises Over $100,000 For Haiti
The other day I posed the question: "who is the more sustaining? Those who only care about themselves, or those who look out for others?" The story of Charlie Simpson, gives me hope it is the latter.
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Watch the 'Hope For Haiti Now' Telethon on Planet Green
On Friday, January 22, 2010, musicians and celebrities from around the country and the world will come together to host what is being called the "most widely distributed telethon in history."
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Doomsday Clock Moved Back a Minute: Timing Off?
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists gave us another minute, citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the threat of nuclear weapons. The "Turn Back the
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Top Stories from Tonic: Helping Haiti, Survivor Zohn Goes Home, Facebook Status Colors Revealed, Goldman Bonuses, and More!
The earthquake that rocked Haiti this week may have devastated much of the country, but it's also quickly bringing out the best in many people who want to help. Celebrities and charities are stepping up to
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Jessica Biel and Friends Aim High, Bob Barker Saves the Whales, and More
The celebrity-packed Summit to the Summit left basecamp yesterday, with Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Alexandra Cousteau, Isabel Lucas, Lupe Fiasco, and other climbers making the 19,340-foot trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro to
