Tag: Humor - Page 6
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Get Rapture Ready With Emergency Kits And Shelters
For those of us who do not get lifted up to heaven tomorrow, we evidently face six months of hell on earth, with earthquakes, volcanos and walking dead shaken out of their graves. The US Government's Center for Disease Control and Prevention has
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Climate Scientists Unveil Hardcore Rap Video (NSFW. Really.)
I know we're always urging climate scientists to be better communicators -- but I don't think this is quite what most of us had in mind. Yes, below the fold is a video of actual climate scientists doing their best gangsta rap
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Protect Your Sandwich With The Lunch Bugs Anti-theft Lunch Bag
Three years ago we wrote about the original Anti-Theft Lunch Bag: TreeHugger promotes healthy diets and frugal living, so taking your organic arugula sandwich on homemade whole-grain beats the KFC any day. But such delicacies
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Glenn Beck Attacks Powershift, Youth Movement Calling for Clean Energy
Was there ever a man who was wrong more often about more stuff than Glenn Beck? I know history has its share of demagogues, but Beck is certain to go down as one of the most profoundly prolific. Yesterday, he revived an old meme that conservative
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Is Jon Stewart Dropping the Ball on Climate Change?
Jon Stewart and co. appear on TreeHugger with some frequency. And that's mostly because the Daily Show has a uniquely powerful way of
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Canada to Benefit from Global Warming (Infographic)
Whatever one thinks of the National Post, you have to admit that their graphics department is one of the best. Today they offer a terrific infographic demonstrating the benefits that will accrue to Canada because of global
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The Battle of the Sidewalks: Pedestrian-On-Pedestrian Crashes Increasing
The usually reliable Transportation Nation reports that rates of pedestrian on pedestrian crashes and accidents in New York City are increasing.
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Introducing G-Date: The Best Place To Meet Graham Hill
Every day, thousands of people join G-Date to score a date with TreeHugger's most eligible bachelor. Soon to be ensconced in
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Grenoble Puts a Superhero on the Payroll To Clean Up Its Streets
Last week, I introduced TreeHugger readers to Le Greenboy, the Parisian eco superhero star of a film by Jerome Genevray. One commenter pointed out that the City of Grenoble, in the French
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Introducing Le Greenboy, the Eco Superhero Cleaning Up Paris (Video)
Walking around Paris, you have to be careful where you step- between cigarette butts and piles of dog doo that the city's residents just won't pick up, the French capital can be a dirty place. But Paris has got a new
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Natalie Portman Sings the Virtues of Recycling + Chu & Schwarzenegger Tell Grads US Must Go First (Video)
It's not too often I (or anyone) gets to write about Natalie Portman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Chu in the same post, so I've got to seize the opportunity. Two videos coming across my virtual desk this morning that are both worth watching for
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Gas Price Joke is Sign of the Times. Ready for the Next Spike?
I was checking BBC news on my phone yesterday and right under a story about the unrest in Libya was a post about pranksters who had modified a gas station price sign to read LOL.
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The Heretic is Environmental Theatre that Makes You Think Twice
At last, a play about the environment that isn't preaching to the converted and is bringing in the crowds. The Heretic at London's Royal Court Theatre is painfully witty in its intelligent look at what we believe in 2011.
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Peter Kent Falls in Love with Big Oil in Polluter Harmony Parody (Video)
We all know how irresistible Big Oil and politicians find each other -- we were all treated to a lovely reminder of just how special their intimacy is during the BP spill. Remember how Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
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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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Is Laughter the Best Medicine? For Infertility, It Might Just Be...
We talk a lot about natural medicine and well-being here on TreeHugger. Whether it's herbal remedies for stress or the public health benefits of cycling, there is no doubt that there
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Urban Vertical Theme Park Has "Minimal Environmental Impact"
Conventional theme parks are problematic. Designer Ju-Hyun Kim notes that " for decades, [they] have been the by-product of
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Believe in Global Warming? You "Kool Aid Drinking Commie" - XtraNormal Takes on Peak Oil (Video)
I've asked before whether trolls can be green, so it should have come as no surprise that my attempt at writing a tongue-in-cheek, overly hyperbolic headline about guest bedrooms as the enemy of sustainability had me labeled
