Tag: Sports - Page 7
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The World's Top Five International Bike Tour Companies
There's no better way to soak up a country than by bike: It's quicker than walking, greener than just about every other form of transportation, and you get to see towns, scenery, and people that you'd never
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Riding in Place to Fight Breast Cancer
How would you react if you lost your mother to breast cancer? If you are Jonathan Cane, you'd organize a virtual-cross-country bicycle race in the storefront on one of Manhattan's busiest streets. Starting on Tuesday, May 26, at
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Transformer Furniture: Test Collective's Coffee Table/ Sk8tr Ramp
We do love multifunctional furniture, but usually the functions are prosaic and practical. Not at the Test Collective. which has produced a coffee table that you can take outside (or I suppose leave inside) and use as a sk8tr ramp. It is made from
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Fun with Finns: Shipping Containers Full of Playful Finnish Design (video)
All photos and videos by Emma Alter
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Can We Afford Incremental Improvements?
When Eric wrote his post Save a Tree... Use an Unbreakable Golf Tee a commenter responded with Save a forest... stop playing golf. Then Kristen wrote in Stronger, Greener Fishing Lures: Why Didn't We Think of That that 25 million pounds of fishing
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Save a Tree... Use an Unbreakable Golf Tee
Photo via: Launcher Tee What do you get when you cross an aerospace engineer with the game of golf?Have you ever thought about the number of tees you go through over a typical season of golf? Golf Magazine reports that the average golfer uses somewhere
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Green Games for Canada's 2010 Winter Olympics?
Torino, Salt Lake City, and China made sustainability promises for their Olympic extravaganzas, and now its Canada's turn to show its true green
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Formula One Racing Failing on its Green Promises
Image credit: BluGroup F1 Motorsport Accused of Greenwash Once upon a time, Formula One racing committed to going hybrid and reducing emissions. But commitments are one thing, following through on them is another. So far it looks like F1 racing's green
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Green Roof Mashup: Golf Course, Filtration Plant, Park and Prison
The Bronx NIMBYs went nuts when it was proposed that a water filtration plant be built in a park. So the architects, Grimshaw, followed what is becoming a common strategy: put a green roof on it and show it from the air. Building? What building?
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Spoil Sports: 7 Activities that Damage the Environment
Not all sports were created equal--at least, not in the eyes of the environment. Some--hiking, running, swimming--represent the best of man in harmony with nature. Others--monster truck rally races, say--are just flat out
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Slicer Sled: Who Needs Snow?
Here is an idea whose time may be coming sooner than we would like: the Slicer Sled. Instead of having to find a snow-covered hill, you just attach blocks of ice, conveniently frozen at home, and clip them into your sled. Whistler BC, February
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Solar-Powered Watches by Tocs: Never Wind Again
We found these cool solar-powered watches in a recent issue of Real Simple, listed under "Real Steals," and really like the funky style and durability. The Ani-Digi Solar Alarm Chrono watch from Tocs features a mini solar panel, just as the Citizen
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Super Bowl Ads: A Green Live Blog
We're live blogging on the lookout for green in Super Bowl 43! TreeHugger is providing up-to-the-minute green coverage of all the ads, events, and madness surrounding America's unofficial national holiday. So what's green about
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TreeHugger Takes on Super Bowl 43 - Live Blog Tomorrow
Ah, the Super Bowl. One of the great American celebrations of sport, music, and creative consumerism. It's all but a national holiday, and every year, half the country tunes in to catch the most expensive advertising in the world, the
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How to Go Green: Skiing & Snowboarding
Photo credit: Getty Images/Stockbyte Skiing and snowboarding are such robust, exhilarating outdoor-oriented pastimes that it just seems wrong to not be green when you hit the slopes. You are, after all, taking advantage of nature's generous decision to
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Green Your Workouts, The City of Milan, and Feed 8 Friends for Under $100
:: Our newest How to Go Green guide gives you tons of tips on how to make your workouts not only good for your health, but also for nature.
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Football Fans Can Help Plant Trees
StubHub has launched a program in conjunction with the National Forests Foundation that will help restore national forests across the US through the sales of post-season football game tickets. The 2008-2009 NFL Playoffs and Super
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NBA's Amare Stoudemire Works to Bring Clean Water to Sierra Leone
The 2003 NBA Rookie of the Year Amare Stoudemire has recently turned his focus away from the court and onto Africa—he's donated a considerable sum of money to fund well construction (a cause he has in common with TreeHugger founder Graham Hill) in
