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Greening China's Mayors: A Q&A with Dr. Steve Hammer of the Mayoral Training Program on Energy Smart Cities

by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 06.29.09
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"There are lots of questions"
To meet its ambitious goals -- a 20 percent increase in energy productivity and a ten percent decrease in emissions compared to 2005 levels by the end of 2010 -- China will need to rely on strong national policies, like the so-called "green" stimulus package. But it will also require the determination of the officials overseeing the country's ferocious, unprecedented urbanization -- China's mayors.

To arm them with the know-how they want and the connections they need, the government has turned to Dr. Steve Hammer, the director of the Urban Energy Project at Columbia and an advisor to New York City and London in their own sustainability plans. Some lessons from those cities apply, he tells TreeHugger -- and like some Chinese cities, some lessons need to be built from scratch.

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Stanley Greenberg, World-Renowned Pollster, Talks Enviro-Politico Shop

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 06.19.09
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Never heard of Stanley Greenberg? Probably means you’ve been living under a rock for the last, say, twenty years. He’s a political mastermind – akin to being described as the world-champion of public opinion polls. His client list reads like a who’s who of domestic and international government – Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela and Ehud Barak. When the chance to talk enviro-political shop with the Grand Pooh-bah “o” Polling appeared, it was an easy vote of YES WE CAN!

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Jillian Michaels Wants You to Master Your Metabolism, the Green Way

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 06.17.09
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Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or goddess, whichever! She is the go-to for millions of people that want a full-tilt, kick-butt, take-no-prisoners approach to exercise and wellness. She sees the secret for performance squarely on a more organic/vegetarian diet and green lifestyle.

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Jake Kheel of Puntacana Resort on Being a Luxury Ecotourism Trailblazer

by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 06. 4.09
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Punta Cana, the super-sized 30,000-room resort town that plays host to most visitors to the Dominican Republic, doesn't sound like much of a model for sustainable tourism. But the area's first resort, Puntacana Resort and Club, is beating a greener path, with an ecological foundation and environmental research center that have undertaken a range of promising initiatives, from local schooling to coral conservation. In an awards ceremony in Brazil last week, Puntacana became the first Caribbean organization to receive the Tourism for Tomorrow Award from the World Travel and Tourism Council.

Jake Kheel, the head of the Ecological Foundation, spoke to me about the resort's commitment to sustainability, how a single company can spread ecotourism ideas among other hotels and governments, and Oscar de la Renta's fondness for bees.

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Sex, Love and Evolution - A Conversation with Dr. Helen Fisher

by Neil Chambers, New York City on 05.26.09
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Dr. Helen Fisher is the love doctor of the 21st century. Her research is revealing why you are crushing on your co-worker to what kind of person you will attract if your index finger is longer than your ring finger. Think you know why you’re in love with your boyfriend or girlfriend? Think they are your soul mate? You should read her new earth-shaking book Why Him? Why Her? before you go to the next level. Still trying to figure out why you can’t get any action from the opposite sex (or same sex, depending on how you swing)? It might be that you don’t have enough dopamine in your system.

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Brian Keane of SmartPower, Renewable Energy Marketer: "We've Never Been Asked to Value Our Energy" (Part 2)

by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 04.30.09
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Brian Keane is leading America's biggest clean energy marketing campaign, SmartPower. Amidst the din of promises over clean coal and fears about job losses, he and his team in Washington, DC, are working to make renewable energy and energy efficiency appealing to everyday Americans. "Amidst all the talk Obama is doing about clean jobs and improving our infrastructure, what's missing is public awareness. This needs to be out in mainstream America. People need to be able to walk into Home Depot and buy solar panels."

Here's part two of our interview (part one is here).

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E.O. Wilson Tells TH Environmentalism is "Fundamental" for Humans [Video]

by Alex Pasternack, New York, NY on 04.29.09
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E.O. Wilson, the towering naturalist and Pulitzer-prize winning writer, hatched the idea for the Encyclopedia of Life in 2003 as a way of chronicling all of the world's species, Wikipedia-style. "How can you save things you don't even know are there?" he asked TreeHugger after delivering the keynote address at the Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC last week. Interestingly, he pointed out, saving things is a fundamental part of human existence, no better exemplified than by the impressive Goldman Prize winners that night. But, he added, "it's not easy being green, as Kermit the Frog says!" See the video below.

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Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender on "Big Green Lies" and Earth Day

by Jessica Root - Brooklyn, NY on 04.17.09
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Seventh Generation's President Jeffrey Hollender. Photo courtesy of Andrew Walker/Getty Images.

This past Tuesday, I had the fortune of attending a premiere party hosted by my favorite green cleaning brand, Seventh Generation. Partying in the penthouse suite of Tribeca’s newly famed Riverhouse luxury eco-condominium; we mingled sipping on organic, biodynamic wines from Lapostolle.

But the penthouse views weren’t the only things worth celebrating; we were there to preview and applaud the next big thing from the squeaky clean and green company—a pilot television show called Big Green Lies airing this Earth Day. I had the chance to get the dirt directly from the head honcho himself, Seventh Generation’s President, Jeffrey Hollender.

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