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The best revenge is living well. At least that's what a new green company, Revenge Is proclaims. While the argument that the best revenge for society’s eco-problems is simply living well seems optimistic, the company has come up with

The OCAD Student Press will be holding a Used Book Sale, Sunday November 2, 2008 at the Gladstone Hotel to raise money for their upcoming publication Shift Perspective - a collection of student essays, many of which

Image source: Sun Strides Sun Strides is merging two things that southern Californian's love - the sun and athletic activities - to raise funds for solar projects in Africa. 5, 10, 15K, whatever your passion or punishment, there is a spot for you at the

Image: Too hot to be natural history? (Flipside Vision) The Natural History Museum in London has refused to sell an educational calendar featuring a year's worth climate change-related images due to reservations that parts of the calendar are "not in

Image courtesy of Habana Works Girls Gone Green. This is the kind of sexy environmental idea that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been done much before. And it’s a wonderfully cheeky concept—a calendar full of girls posing for the sake of green.Meet the

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It seems like a contradiction in terms, but they are trying to build a "green" shopping mall in Waterloo, Ontario. The addition to the Conestoga Mall uses Bullfrog wind power, white roofing, solar panels and LED lighting. They are also running a denim

TreeHugger visits IIDEX, short for International Interior Design Exhibition, an annual trade-only design show in Toronto.

A brushstroke can’t repair the ozone, but a local Venice, CA gallery is helping artists come close. G2 Gallery is an environmentally conscious art gallery – meaning that not only does the art featured there capture images of nature and, natch, the

If Wikipedia is the reincarnation of the encyclopedia, the Wikia family of sites represents the rest of the library—not just the printed pages, but all the side conversations and muffled chatter. At least this is how Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

To celebrate the launch of ESKids -- that's fashionable website EcoStiletto's new section dedicated to wee-huggers -- founder and TH contributor Rachel Sarnoff set up a tent and

Water for Life Back in 2005, Warren wrote about the elephant pump. A design from ancient China that is now being used in poor regions of Africa to bring drinking water to local populations, with the benefit that it can be easily assembled and maintained

It is not with any infrequency that I get asked the "what else can I do" question. People and families who are already buying local and organic foods, being conservative in their fuel and electricity consumption, composting and recycling, and

Lauren Bush announces sustainable fashion collection First Niece Lauren Bush announced Wednesday that she was launching her first ready-to-wear collection, one that will be wholly produced in New York using sustainable and organic fabrics such as hemp

Barefoot Wine is really working hard to push this clean up the oceans thing this summer. First, they partner with Tristan Prettyman to host concerts and beach cleanups. Now they're partnering with hunky celebs to get them to

Kona not only sells good bikes, sponsors riders to jump off things taller than our heads, and promotes recreational and functional biking, but it also is putting those bikes to work all over Africa. Their AfricaBikes program

Common Threadz, not to be confused with Patagonia's recycling program, has a buy-one-give-one type program meaning that for every item you purchase, the store will donate one school uniform to an orphan in Africa. Once

There are lots of eco-tees out there today, we'll admit it. The tees designed by Me to We clothing have improved on the design of most eco-tees in that they fit better because they are cut longer and larger than your standard