Tag: One Planet Living - Page 4
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Eco Up Your iPhone with ECOcal
It's hitting that time of year when we start keeping our eye out for the coolest calendar we can find to guide us through the upcoming year.
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B&Q; Launches "One Planet Home" Line With 2,000 Products
UK Hardware Store Deepens One Planet Business Commitment UK hardware giant B&Q; was already collaborating with TreeHugger favorites, the Bioregional Development Group, on becoming a "One Planet Business" - committing among other things to stop
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Planet Facing an 'Ecological Credit Crunch', WWF Says
An increasing number of voices in the past two weeks are reminding people that though many nations are facing some serious financial problems at the moment, collectively we’re facing a problem with longer lasting and greater existential consequences
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We Need a New Green Politics! James Gustave Speth on The Change Needed in the Environmental Movement
While the environmental movement can claim some genuine successes, the methods used so far are ultimately limiting the scope of the type of change that it can, and must, create if we are going to leave our children a planet that is capable
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One More Step to Ecological Insolvency: September 23rd Is Earth Overshoot Day 2008
Last year it was October 6th. In 2008, September 23rd is Earth Overshoot Day according to the calculations of the Global Footprint Network. That means that for the rest of the year more resources will be consumed globally than
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Respect For The Green Senior Citizens
(Photo: US Marines of Camp Schwab and members of the Henoko Senior Citizens' club joined together to beautify a portion of the beach in Okinawa, Japan. Source: Japan Update)
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Cool Animated Video: Humans As Virus
Humans as a viral infection of earth. Some of you may have suspected that already. Let's hope it is an adolescent thingy that Earth will recover from soon, to live a long and prosperous further life. Let's hope
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We Need a "New Operating System" for the Modern World! Yale Univ's Dean of Environmental Studies Says
In a practical sense, to make the type of changes in theory and practice which many TreeHugger readers would probably like to see happen to make the world a more ecologically sustainable place, we may have to compartmentalize a
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U.S. House Speaker Pelosi Makes Historic Visit To Hiroshima
Speakers of Parliament, including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, from G8 countries visited Hiroshima, Japan and laid flowers Tuesday at a memorial to the Hiroshima atomic bomb victims in 1945. It is difficult to discuss the horrific effects of the
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Is Paul Ehrlich's 'Population Bomb' Defusing Itself? Fred Pearce Thinks So
Last week I pointed out a piece that Yale Environment 360 had about the great elephant in the environmental room otherwise known as population growth and resource overconsumption. In the broadstroke I agree with Ehrlich regarding
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Treading Heavily on the Environment: China's Growing Eco-Footprint Highlighted in New Report
We've written about the concept of Eco-Footprint a number of times--what it is, how to calculate it, and how to reduce yours--and with the Olympics upon us it comes as no surprise that China's environmental footprint might
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Population Growth, Resource Over-Consumption at Center of 'Looming Catastrophe', Stanford Biologists Claim
This next post is about something which I've found many environmentalists, and even more people who don't consider themselves environmentalists, find very hard to discuss: Overpopulation and the corresponding
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Are Our 'Default Settings' for Consumption Too High?
Just a brief break for discussion: China Dialogue has posted a piece where a Chinese journalist of 'a certain age' comments upon how her, and society's, 'default settings' have changed in regards to what is
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TreeHugger Founder Graham Hill Interview on Elephant Journal
If you haven't met TreeHugger founder and fearless leader Graham Hill, the man who first mated the words "green" and "aspirational", here's an opportunity. Check out Graham being interviewed by Waylon Lewis on elephant journal's elevision.
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Bnarrator Gives Voice to Websites, Creates Green Jobs, and Remixes Nalgene Bottle Dangers
What if the environment could speak for itself? Would it say "ouch" every time a new plane took off from the tarmac spewing CO2e's into the air. Would it say gracias, merci, todah or thank you for every new tree planted, or for the leftovers you
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Scythe Revival Grows in the UK Too
Green Grows the Grass? Now that the summer growth season is in full swing, many folks will be struggling to keep up with their lawn maintenance. And while converting our yards to edibles is probably the greenest option out there, reel mowers come in a
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International Education Initiative Shoots for One Planet Living
We’re pretty familiar with the One Planet Living (OPL) concept that was developed by a partnership between the Bioregional Development Group and WWF. We’ve heard from one of its leading proponents about how OPL is taking off in North America, seen how
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Bioregional Consulting Win Sustainable Consultant of the Year
It seems like the folks at London-based Bioregional Development Group are never far from our front page. Whether it's their pioneering work on decentralized supply chains for charcoal or firewood production, their localized paper-recycling systems, or
