published December 24, 2009 and has No Comments
Image courtesy of americanapparel.net . Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. American Apparel is known for sex-charged ads and made-in-America product , but aside from their locally-made goods, their green side is a little lack-luster. Organic cotton might seem like the obvious way to improve sustainability... Read the full ...
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published December 18, 2009 and has No Comments
In the final installment of our Pop!Tech Pop Quiz experiment, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill sits down with behavioral economist Dan Ariely, subjecting him to our Yes/No/Maybe harassment. Ariely's book, Predictably Irrational , reflects his years of (often devilishly clever) research dissecting the way we weigh ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published December 17, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Earthwatch Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm is head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch . We all know the size of the footprints we leave behind. For the record, mine's a size 8 (42), which is bigger than many I guess, but I'm tall and I need the ballast or I'd fall flat on my face. My ...
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published December 17, 2009 and has No Comments
Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert returned to their homes in Clinton County, Ohio to find economic devastation. DHL, a mainstay employer of the area, had pulled out, leaving a jobless void. The two friends responded by doing what seemed logical: they started Energize Clinton County to spark the economy with green smarts. They ... Read the full story on ...
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published December 17, 2009 and has No Comments
Places like Sentinel Meadow in Yosemite National Park are more than just pretty places. They're contributing to balancing California's carbon budget. Photo via glennwilliamspdx NASA is giving California a helping hand by using its satellite imaging data and computer models to map out the state's natural ecosystems and determine just how much carbon they can absorb and ground water ...
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published December 16, 2009 and has No Comments
Andrew Rasiej is the man behind Personal Democracy Forum , a website and yearly conference focussed on the way that technology and politics intersect. In front of this kinda eerie painting (his choice), Rasiej takes on our battery of questions on nuclear power, living locally, electric cars, and "letting it mellow."
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published December 15, 2009 and has No Comments
Matt Ludwig is the brain behind Matt Ludwig Design and the creator of BlipSnips , a clever little video linking tool. He handled our Yes/No/Maybe onslaught with grace. I especially liked his response to the question of whether Obama is doing what he needs to do on the environment. His an... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published December 14, 2009 and has No Comments
This week we roll on with our mutant pet project: byte-sized Yes/No/Maybe interviews with attendees of the Pop!Tech conference . First up, Amanda Koster, a photographer who founded SalaamGarage . Her org. works with non-profits to assemble teams of citizen journalists and send them on tri... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published December 14, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via GigaOm In a new report by MindClick SGM and GigaOm , Black Friday is found to be shockingly more carbon intensive than Cyber Monday - 50 times more intensive. When TreeHugger readers began the debate this year about which was greener, the Black Friday footrace or the Cyber Monday click-a-thon, no one... Read the full story on ...
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published December 11, 2009 and has No Comments
How do you respond to nuanced questions of nuclear power, clean coal, and Obama's climate policy when you can only defend yourself with Yes, No, or Maybe? You do your best, that's how. We cornered Chris Page, Yahoo!'s Director of Energy and Climate, outside Pop!Tech's ice cream social and took her to task. (And for more from... Read the ...
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