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TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green products and services. Consumers also rely on the directory to help facilitate their buying processes. TreeHugger is the most effective way for them to find well designed products that are also ecologically sensitive.
Updated: 1 year 8 weeks ago
Water Wars in Wild West Over Rainwater Catchment
Photo via fireballsedai
Colorado is seeing dust stirred up over water rights and water catchment systems. While homeowners want the ability to catch the moisture from the snow and rain that lands on their roof, others, including Native Americans, want to protect their water rights and access to water by making rainwater catchment a no-go. ...A Nation of Hitchhikers
Image by Wikimedia
As the American Automotive Fabric takes a little "T-Out" from its regularly scheduled programming, we may want to prepare our last bidey-byes to the notion that jumping into a personally-owned powered metal box - gas, electric, biodiesel, whatever - every time we need a quart of milk is going to reliably continue. With our sweet dreams and driving machines in pieces on the ground, a backup system is clearly required. One is hitchhiking, which relies on the kindness of strangers and a certain implicit level of d...
San Francisco Installing Solar Powered, Wi-Fi Ready Bus Stops
Photo via SF Streets Blog
While some bus stop ideas are pretty futuristic, solar powered bus stops have been around for awhile. Back in April, we heard San Francisco was planning to install solar powered bus stops, and last week Mayor Gavin Newsom cut the ribbon on the city's first. It's a prototype of what will be 1,100 new bus stops installed city-wide, capable of not only sending excess power b...Times Square Made More Pedestrian (and Lounge Chair) Friendly (Slideshow)
photo: Matthew McDermott
A couple months ago we brought you word that New York City was going to make Times Square and Herald Square more pedestrian-friendly, by rearranging traffic patterns and blocking off certain streets to form large outdoor plazas. The initial part of that was opened up last weekend, and while it's particularly pretty at this ...GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
Photos via GreenWood.org
During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company work...Japan Update: Will Prime Minister Taro Aso Go For Deep CO2 Emission Cuts?
Image from Nikkei
Today, readers of Japan's major economic daily newspaper were treated with a funny comic: Taro Aso, the Prime Minister (who is known for loving manga) on top of a robot, desperately making CO2 emission cuts. Will he be a hero or not? This week, he is supposed to announce Japan's policy, and the calls range from an increase of plus four percent to deep cuts supported by the public, according to a poll by Avaaz.org.
You read that right. Japan's industr...Is This the End of the Line for Fish?
The End of the Line is an important documentary film about the devastating impact of overfishing in the world's oceans. First shown at the Sundance Film Festival, with any luck it could do for fishing what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for global warming.
And we need that publicity, public aware...
Bebecito Organic: Clothing For Punk Rock Kids
Image via: Bebecito Organic
Your bebecito doesn't have to speak spanish, english or even know baby sign language to understand that the new onesies and tshirts from Bebecito Organics are really cute and versatile. Plus, the designs are all part of an artist series, so not only is your baby trendy in her organic clothing, but now he/she will fit in with all of the hipsters with her arts designs....Seventh Generation Changes CEOs
Seventh Generation Inc. co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Hollender, who started the green tissue giant in 1988, is transferring power to Chuck Maniscalco, a former PepsiCo executive. The new guy better not mess with my favorite TP....Celebrity Spokesperson Needed for Trash Campaign
Giant butt lands in Trafalgar Square via the Keep Britain Tidy campaign
In an effort to clean up England, an anti-litter nonprofit in the UK is seeking a celebrity ambassador. The alert states “Your Country Needs You!” So, what star might best promote Britain’s facelift and be its rubbish bin cheerleader? The “Keep Britain Tidy” campaign says the prospective spokesperson will follow in the footsteps of the Queen Mother, Abba, and T-Rex’s Marc “Bang a Gong” Bolan. Entici...Lavanila Healthy Deodorant Offers Sweet-Smelling Armor for Your Underarms
Photo credit: Lavanila Laboratories
As temperatures and humidity levels get positively subtropical, breaking out the underarm odor-eaters rapidly shifts from personal care to civic duty, as anyone who's had to stand next to a shvitzing straphanger can bear witness to.
To dodge those awkward eau de gym socks moments, Lavanila Laboratories has a paraben-, phthalate-, and petrochemical-free roll-on deodorant designed to halt B.O in its tracks. Other ingredients Lavanila has rendered null and void: aluminum, propylene glycol, mine...Big Tree Climate Fund Joins the Carbon Offset Market
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From the creators of Dagoba Chocolate, comes Big Tree Climate Fund, a carbon offset company that also gives a percentage of profits to local communities to promote environmental education, reinforcing their business. ...Dubai Vaporware: Buildings "Under Construction" Don't Exist
images via the Independent
Finally, a green project in Dubai; as these construction photos attest, it is working its way up to the sky. But it consumes no resources, no concrete or fossil fuels or electricity. That's because it doesn't exist. ...Machine From Japan Turns Office Waste Into Toilet Paper
Photo: Nakabayashi
The Other Way Around Would be More Impressive...
I'm not too sure what to think about this 1,300 lbs piece of machinery by Tokyo-based Nakabayashi. It takes paper waste from an office and turns it into toilet paper: "The toilet paper machine is able to produce two rolls per hour from around 1,800 sheets (or 7.2kg) of used A4-sized paper". Seems overkill. What's the footprint of that machine and how much toilet paper should it produce before it compensate for that? More details below....Does Recycling Need an Image Makeover?
Photo credit: Mimi Vert
Considering that almost a quarter of Americans don't recycle—or more, depending on whom you believe—perhaps what the tertiary member of the three Rs needs is a good stylist?
It might be guileless to think that flashing images of well-coiffed, impeccably accessorized women with translucent blue garbage bags casually tossed over one shoulder like the current It purse, or clutching flattened boxes tied with string like a fashion statement, would sway even the most recalcitrant of non-recyclers, but that's precisely what Mimi Vert set ...Solar Power Vocab: Single & Dual Axis Solar Trackers
photo: Concentrix Solar
With the increase in commercial scale solar power plants in the past year, it seems appropriate to explain a bit of terminology that those people only familiar with home and portable applications don't have to contend with, but can really boost power output. I'm talking about solar trackers, in their single and dual axis varieties. Renewable Energy World has a thorough description of them, including...Barges are Back in London
There is a long history of people living on canal barges in London, but they were usually narrow, low and often pretty uncomfortable in winter. Not any more; British Waterways ran a design competition to renovate some big old spits barges into a mixed use community in the Isle of Dogs. The winners were Architects PCKO and Baca; Narrow and dark they are not. ...Isn’t GM already Green?
Photo from PHOTO/ REUTERS
With the auto giant General Motors filing for bankruptcy today, they are now promising to change into a lean, green automobile-making machine. But if you look at the facts, they already are green. Is GM the poster child for what is to come if established companies don’t innovate, or is it the scapegoat for America’s manufacturing debacle?...Toxic Textbooks Responsible for Global Economic Crisis
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Toxic Textbooks is one of the latest social causes being promoted through Facebook to rid the world of misperceptions, particularly when it comes to economics versus the environment. Students around the world are joining the fight to end the publication and use of economic textbooks that perpetuate myths we all know to be false....Sponsor-tising
