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Help the Eco Music Festival Design the First Sustainable Event Tent
This July 4th weekend, the Eco Music Festival (EMU) is bringing Leftover Salmon, RJD2, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, and other musical acts one and a half miles above sea level—to Snowmass Village, Colorado—for several days of fun. From t
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Are Champagne Environmentalists Hypocrites?
We already know that nagging girlfriends are a bigger environmental influence than celebrity campaigners and that there are plenty of celebrity environmentalists in need of green 101, and
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Fill Up Your iPod with Songs of Love for Japan --- Quickly
If you're looking for a way to help out survivors of the Japan tsunami, and you like rare and unreleased music, have a look at Songs of Love for Japan. It's 100 songs for $100. Proceeds go to Shelterbox, a charity that delivers
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Researchers Find the Tin Pan Alley of the Whale World
Whales sing their haunting melodies across miles of ocean in order to attract a mate -- but as it turns out, those songs aren't quite as original as you might have thought. According to researchers studying whale culture, evidence
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Hark! iPhone Speakers with Amazing Sound Made from Broken Trumpets
For electricity-free speakers, this design might be the most interesting. Artist and maker Christopher Locke used old broken trumpets and a few spare machine parts to build a sculpture that serves as both decoration and
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Best of Green: Culture and Celebrity (Slideshow)
If you think the importance of culture goes no further than what you hear on the radio or see on television, then you're sorely underestimating the long-term impact of art, movies, music, celebrities, and cultural phenomenons.
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Best of Green: Culture and Celebrity
If you think the importance of culture goes no further than what you hear on the radio or see on television, then you're sorely underestimating the long-term impact of art, movies, music, celebrities, and cultural phenomenons. But: We're not. TreeHugger
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Lady Gaga Launches Fashion Line Made from Discarded Meat
Pop icon Lady Gaga will launch a line of meat-based clothing this Fall using food waste. The line will be a "contemporary interpretation of her stage outfits," according to the Haus of Gaga.
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San Francisco Nightclub's Sustainable Dance Floor Powered By Partiers
Last weekend, 1400 club patrons at Temple Nightclub in San Francisco shook their booties and booted up the power of the sustainable dance floor. 480 Watts were generated
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Reverb Turns 100, Gives Away Wiz Khalifa Tickets, More
What do you do when you turn 100? If you're Keith Richards, who go on tour. The same goes for the enviros at Reverb, a Portland, Maine, outfit that greens concert tours and venues. The nonprofit is taking votes on who to support for its 100th tour,
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Hipster Farm Bands T-Shirts Debut on Grist
The other night, I logged onto Twitter -- I'm just getting back into it, so follow me! -- and, as so often is the case, there was a pointless-yet-engrossing hashtag word game in progress that I couldn't pass up. Sparked by a
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"Plastic State of Mind" Music Video Helps Get Plastic Bags Banned (Video)
I attended the first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival this weekend and mixed in among the serious documentaries about everything from precious metal mining to bird conservation were a few choice shorts that thankfully use
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Behind-the-Scenes Green at the Oscars, Justin Bieber's Birthday Wish, and More
You may have been focusing on the big winners, the best- and worst-dressed lists, and the fairly awkward host banter, but behind the scenes of the Academy Awards last Sunday, the NRDC's Allen Hershkowitz and his team
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Help Patagonia, Musicians, Support the Environment, for Just 99 Cents
Happy March. This month marks the launch of the Patagonia Music Collective in the U.S. The eco-minded apparel company has teamed with musicians to sell exclusive tracks for 99 cents each, with net proceeds going to
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Profits Double For Business Selling Pre-Loved Products
Might it be the United State's fragile economy? Or maybe, just maybe, a slow awakening to the inherent fallacy in the myth that bright, shiny new products will make us happy? Whatever the root cause, Americans seem to be embracing
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Edward Norton Fights Shark Finning, Ricky Gervais Protects Animals, and More
The movement against shark finning has already brought together advocates including January Jones and John Kerry -- and in California, where legislators have proposed a bill that would block the sale of the fins, another
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Why Food Is 'The New Indie Rock' -- And Why That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing
With foodies getting flack for being elitist, fad-focused, and out of touch with how and what people really eat, The Guardian's "Ask the indie professor" columnist comes along with a
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Score Tickets, a Spot Near Coachella's Stage, for Recycling & Energy Feats
The Coachella 2011 music festival sold out in less than a week. Reportedly the fastest sell-out ever. Passes to the Indio, California, fest can still be had, of course. Fake ones are being sold on eBay, even though paper
