Tag: Newspapers - Page 4
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The Onion's "Obligatory Green Issue"
Get it while it's still hot off the press: The Onion's Obligatory Green Issue! Here's a sample headline: 450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues Of Time Trucked To
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Grantham Prize Winners Announced: Environmental Reporting at its Best
The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment is a big one--its purpose is "to encourage outstanding coverage of the environment, to recognize reporting that has the potential to bring about constructive change, and to broadly
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Grantham Prize Finalists Announced
Which US or Canadian environmental journalist or team of journalists will win $75,000 for exemplary reporting in 2007? And more importantly, have you read their ground-breaking work yet? To learn the identities of this year's finalists for the Grantham
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Thom Yorke, Amory Lovins and Ken Livingstone on Climate Change
Image credit: National Geographic/Getty Images "We will soon discover whether this bold evolutionary experiment of combining a large forebrain with opposable thumbs was really a good idea. Over the next decade, our species takes its university finals.
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Cyclists and Road Rules: London's Bikers Give Their Verdict
Yesterday's news that UK Conservative leader David Cameron had been caught breaking the rules of the road on his bike ignited some debate here at TreeHugger, but we weren't the only ones. The BBC hit the streets of London to solicit comments from
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UK Conservative Leader Breaks Road Rules By Bike
We are huge fans of cycling here at TreeHugger, but we have to acknowledge that there is resentment among motorists at some cyclists' perceived disregard for traffic rules. While it rarely goes as far as the driver who
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Why Eco-Activists Still Have Children
Parents are good at dropping subtle hints. When this TreeHugger's dear mother sent him an article by Angharad Penrhyn Jones about how eco-activists "spend their lives agonising over the planet's future — but that doesn't stop them having
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Brewing Change: The Guardian Keeps Its Kettle In Check
Update: Lloyd also covered this issue over at Planet Green, pointing out that very few Americans have electric kettles, whilst 95% of brits and canadians do. As electric kettles convert 80 percent of the energy into heat that boils the water, while a
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Stop the Presses: Green Consumerism Exposed
Monica Hesse at the Washington Post writes an article letting the cat out of the bag for all of us conspicuous consumers of green goods: Spending Won't Save the Earth. Shocked and reeling from this searing
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Enough Pious Eco-Snobbery - But What Next?
Last week Green as a Thistle argued that "the greenest way to live is in the gray area. We can't possibly take this movement to the next level when we're still bickering about whether so-and-so is an environmentalist or not. Who cares?" In a
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New York Times Trashes Wind Power. Twice.
The New York Times publishes two stories in as many days trashing wind power with examples from Europe, where
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How Green Can a Newspaper Afford to Be?
The Guardian newspaper in the UK is a bit like the mouse that roared; its influence far exceeds its heft and sales. When it comes to writing about environmental and green issues, its writers and depth of coverage can't be beat. But it only sells
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National Post on Treehugger, Barbeques
Strangely, the climate change denying National Post is full of good green ideas this weekend. In their Take Five handy guide to what's hot, they suggest Treehugger.com's guide for How to Go Green With a name like Treehugger. com, you know the site is
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Project Freesheet
One in the morning and two at night--those are the free newspapers that Londoner's get handed every day on the streets and en route to the Tube. And then there are the ones that people buy. You can just imagine what the trains look like by 7 p.m.
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National Post Green Report. Not.
The National Post publishes screeds from the likes of Alexander Cockburn, runs a denier-of-the week profile, and printed a disgusting tirade by George Jonas that included "The Green Gestapo of the environment seems ready to launch nuts right here at
