Tag: Finances

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  Warren Buffet Proves There's No Such Thing as Giving Too Much

  And he’s donated 99% of his wealth to demonstrate it.

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  "There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes

  While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.

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  Richard Heinberg on Reaching The End of Growth (Podcast)

  Richard Heinberg (author of The Party's Over and Peak Everything) talks about his new book, The End of Growth, and explains why you can't have unlimited growth on a finite planet.

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  Occupy London Runs Into Trouble at Its Home Base

  Photo: B. Alter Occupy London (or Occupy LSX--London Stock Exchange) has its home base outside St. Paul's Cathedral in the financial district of London. It has been located there, close to the London Stock Exchange, since October 15, in solidarity with

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  Rebecca Tarbotton on Pressuring and Inspiring the Opposition (Podcast)

  The Rainforest Action Network tackles a whole lot more than rainforests, and Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton is leading her organization to the front in a slew of fights. Her preferred tactic: "equal parts pressure and inspiration." To sway the

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  Let's Play Ethica, the Ethical Monopoly Game

  Unlike Monopoly, where the goal is to buy more and more houses, hotels and entire streets, in Ethica, the best family and best bank wins. The best are those groups who obtain the most points in 3 sectors: the financial, social and environmental one.

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  Beyond LEED to Net Zero Energy: RFK Jr., Suzuki and Sinclair's Keynotes at Sustainability Summit

  A solar-powered health clinic traveling on a camel. Windmills on Bangladesh tut-tuts recharges cell phones. Military bases converted to civic spaces. A

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  How to Use Pocketbook Environmentalism to Convert the "Non-Greenies" in Your Life

  We all have that one person in our lives (or maybe more) who thinks going green is just not their thing. Perhaps it's your roommate who just can't seem to

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  Living on Groupon Vouchers for a Year May Be Unwittingly Green

  TreeHugger has followed the "journeys" of several people who have chosen to live on nothing for a year but here is a new twist. Josh Stevens has been living off Groupon vouchers for almost a year now across the United States and

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  Jessica Jackley on Empowering the World's Entrepreneurs (Podcast)

  Jessica Jackley co-founded Kiva.org back in 2005. Since then, nearly half a million people have used the micro-lending platform to offer money to fellow citizens, almost none of whom will ever meet offline. Jackley's passion is in empowering

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  Old Warships Never Die; They Get Recycled

  The aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is on her last legs. She fought in the Falklands and the Balkans and Iraq. But what do you do with a ship that is considered to be out of date?

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  Royal Wedding Gift List Includes Green Charities

  The gift list for the Royal Wedding has been announced. It's for the pleb's who feel they want to send Wills and Kate, oops Catharine, a present but don't know what to pick.

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  Danger: Snow Drop Thefts on the Increase

  You would think people would have better things to do (or steal) but you never know... Thieves in England have been digging up snow drops, the lovely white flower that is just popping up now in woods across the land.

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  Despite Huge Expense, London's Olympic Stadium Could Be Torn Down After 2012 Games

  The London 2012 Olympics' claim to be the greenest ever is coming under threat almost daily. The plans for recycling and re-using the new buildings were impressive but a huge controversy has developed over

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  Green Tax Shift & Other Environmental Issues Cartoon-Style by Stuart McMillen

  Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.

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  Eco-Bonds Prove Hugely Popular with Green Investors

  TreeHugger has looked before at investing green in the midst of economic turmoil, even offering specific quick green investing tips. But Dale Vince and the folks at Ecotricity have created a new financial product to make

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  Survey Reveals French are the Saddest People on Earth

  If you are feeling very sad about the coming year, you are probably French. If the thought of the new year fills you with hope and optimism then you may be from Nigeria, Vietnam or even Kosovo.

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  Comparing the Brit's and American's Ten Most influential Brands

  It's a tale of two cities, well, countries. The annual list of the ten most influential brands in the UK and the US is out and the differences between the two countries are pretty interesting when it comes to the ethical