Tag: Charities - Page 7
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Airwalk Shoes Is Awarding Environmental Charities $10K
Credit: Airwalk Airwalk recently launched Doing Your Part, an online fundraiser for Surfrider Foundation and Music for Relief. They are donating a dollar for every visitor to their site--until they reach $10,000--to the California-based environmental
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Buy Some Time with Your Favorite Celebrity, Eat Like Elizabeth Hurley, and More
Plenty of celebrities are willing to donate their money to green causes, but this week, you can catch up with others who've agreed to donate their time by offering up lunches, set visits, and front-row tickets in auctions
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Join The Wave to Spread the Word Before Copenhagen
This is a relatively benign stunt by the standards of the Stop Climate Change Coalition, which has stirred up excitement with a nude climate change calander and in the context of Copenhagen, where one group
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Save Kids. Take 250,000 Cars Off US Roads: Wend Magazine Tells How
Wend Magazine's latest issue is out. As is expected from this fine publication, there is much to engage the grey matter and inspire the reader to ditch the sofa for a bike or board.
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Dr. McDreamy & Mercedes Donate Clean Diesel Vehicle to Dempsey Cancer Center
While Patrick Dempsey may play a steamy, dreamy doctor on tv's Greys Anatomy, his involvement in the medical community doesn't stop there. In his hometown of Lewiston, Maine, sits The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing where Dempsey has
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Nature Makes Us Nicer People, New Study Says
Don't disregard those wall calendars showing far-off nature scenes quite yet. It just might make you a more caring, community-oriented, and generous person. A new study by the University of Rochester found that after
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Get ZeroWasted Pub Crawl & Sustainable Scavenger Hunt this Saturday in San Fran
Don't have plans for saturday night? You do now, with the Zerowasted Bar Crawl going on Saturday, September 19 in the Mission. Join fellow TreeHuggers and beer-lovers alike as you try your wits at their
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Geeky Good Causes, Philanthropic Boy Wonders, and Literary Tree-hugging
Geek out for a good cause! "Lend a Helping Hard Drive." gives you the downlow on Mozilla Service Week, a Firefox-fueled initiative to spread the technological love.
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Luna Chix: Badass Babes on Bikes
At this year's Wanderlust Festival, I got a chance to sit down with Karen Rehder, rider for Luna Chix and talk about bikes, babes and being a bad-ass. Here is how Luna is helping Chicks across the United States get off their
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Bikes and Beer for Bears: Wend Magazine Party Benefits Defenders of Wildlife
Indeed it is. Last time it was a table tennis competition, but this time Wend are celebrating the launch of Volume 4, Issue 2 Summer 2009 edition of their
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Buy One FEED Backpack to Send Another Packing With Medical Supplies
Designer Kenneth Cole threw a party with Planet Green and Vanity Fair in LA last night to launch the latest FEED bag by UN World Food Program spokesperson Lauren
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Healthcare for California Wildlife and World's Marine Life
Every week private oceanside homes, from Laguna to Malibu, host star-studded annual fundraising galas. Last Sunday Mira Sorvino, Pam Anderson
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10 College Students Making Green Headlines
Those who sum up college students with spring break and wild parties don't know the 10 young environmental activists on this list--or the hundreds, maybe thousands more around the country. From initiating green fees that
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Disney's Green Teens: BFFs For Change
An anthemic teen tune with an environmental message, "Send It On," is zipping up the iTunes' chart since its release yesterday and suddenly
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Al Gore Vs Mikhail Gorbachev? The Latest on the .eco Domain Battle
As we've been tracking on TreeHugger, there is a push for a new top level domain (TLD) - the .eco domain - and there are currently a couple hats in the ring. On the one hand, there is the .eco that is backed by Al
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SolarAid Wins Accolades: Solar Power Changing Lives
Image credit: SolarAid Charity supports solar in developing countries It's a while since we announced the launch of SolarAid, a UK-based charity aimed at relieving poverty through solar energy. The organization started out small with a community solar
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Grid Alternatives Chosen by California Solar Initiative to Take Their Gig Statewide
Image via: Grid Alternatives Grid Alternatives, the non-profit that uses volunteer labor to put solar panels on low-income homes in California has been chosen by California Solar Initiative to manage the Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH)
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Trees For The Future: Don't Count Your Footprint, Just Plant a Tree
Green businesses today can no longer just get by on the merits of being "green" or "eco-friendly" or "natural." With the acute interest in all things green these days, the savvy business person must stay one
