Tag Archive for 'bloggers'

Bipartisan Fact Checkers Take GOP Climate Hoax Statements to Task

Photo credit: extracelestial via Flickr/CC BY Earlier this week, a few bloggers and enviros were calling on the former GOP presidential candidate (and former, former climate advocate) Tim Pawlenty to come clean on his opportunistic global warming flip flop. See, Pawlenty, in a last-ditch effort to appease the rabid science-free wing of ...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Huffpo Comes To Canada, Looks More Green Than Orange

The Huffington Post introduces a Canadian edition with the back of Opposition Leader Jack Layton's head and a headline ORANGE SHADOW, but if you look at their list of local bloggers, it's really green, at least at launch. Right at the top you have David Suzuki on our favourite subject, writing Burn Calories, Not Gas: Ride a Bike ...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Detroit Bike City

My hometown gets a bum rap sometimes in the green community. It's that whole car thing -- I know. We have crappy public transit. True enough. But what few people outside of Detroit know is that a passion for DIY, for hacking the everyday, for tinkering, is alive and well in many of our hearts here in the D. Here's a quick look at a few of the innovative bike hacks seen around t... weiterlesen...

It’s April Food Day! That’s With a D Not an L

Bloggers Fighting Hunger join forces on April Fool's, I mean, April Food Day. Today is the third annual April Food Day, an initiative launched by a bunch of bloggers as a hunger awareness campaign. It's a worthy way to shift the focus from foolishness to something worthwhile, and a good excuse to look at how to feed the world - and ourselves. April Fools is fun for a laugh but ... weiterlesen...

Hit or Miss? Bloggers Complain about Pure Sunlight, Designer Responds

When I wrote Coffee Table Doubles As Heliostat, Lighting Room, I suggested that "Perhaps it could use a little advanced technology to track the sun automatically." Susan Labarre of Fast Company was stronger in her language: File that under well-intentioned-but-yeah-*$&%ing-right.....So Pure Sun might find a cus...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Inhabitots Green Parenting Predictions for 2011

As the new year starts off in full swing, the Inhabitots team caught up with some of our favorite green designers and bloggers to share their thoughts about what lies ahead in green design and what sustainable steps we’ll see the world take in 2011 to make it a better place for our kids and families. We asked Healthy Child, Healthy World’s Danielle Friedland, Natalie... weiterlesen...

Eco Parenting New Year’s Resolutions for 2011!

The start of a new year is the perfect time to set some productive resolutions. This year we asked some of our favorite green bloggers and sustainable designers to share what they have planned for themselves and their families for 2011. From some eco-insight shared by gDiapers’ founder Kim Graham-Nye, to what Petit Eco KIDS’ Flavia Fazzini thinks 2011 will mean for h... weiterlesen...

Three Green Building Lawyer Bloggers Predict The Next Big Thing

Stephen Del Percio, Lloyd Alter, Shari Shapiro, Chris Cheatham I follow the three leading bloggers on green building law closely; they make complicated and important issues affecting green building comprehensible. When I saw that they were all on a panel together at Greenbuild, I had to attend and meet them in person, and hear their responses to the question "What's the Next Bi... weiterlesen...

8 Facts You Didn’t Know About Water

Image credit: Charity: Water This guest post was written by Change.org as part of Blog Action Day Today is a huge day for bloggers and activists around the world: it's Blog Action Day. For those of you that aren't familiar with the event, Blog Action Day is a single day on the web where thousands of bloggers across more than 130 countries all write about the same issue....Read... weiterlesen...

Valencia Design Week 2010: "Cosas" by Patricia Urquiola (Photos)

Patricia Urquiola at the exhibition 'Cosas' at Habitat Valencia. Photo Credit: Petz Scholtus Valencia Design Week has invited us to FEED, the first international design media and bloggers' meeting this week, so together with Core77, Mocoloco, Designboom, and Inhabitat to just name a few, we are exploring the Spanish design fair. One stand that definitely stands out at Habitat V... weiterlesen...

What is, "TreeHugger Is On Jeopardy," Alex.

Screengrab via video If you were watching Jeopardy last night, you might have had a particularly fun surprise when a contestant asked for Blogs & Bloggers for $400. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms

A hoop pine monoculture plantation in Australia. Credit: Dr. John Kanowski. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. Australian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations -- or big weiterlesen...

NYC’s Favorite Fashion Bloggers (Including a TreeHugger) Style One LBD 16 Ways, Let the Challenge Begin!

Bright Young Things Style Challenger Tiffany of Six SIx Sick. Photo: Ayasha Guerin When Bright Young Things (BYT), the sustainable fashion label that launched with one little black dress last month, asked if I would don their LBD for a Style Challenge I had to muster every ounce of will po...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

IPCC Issues Clarification On Media Interaction

photo via flickr Last week, Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sent a letter to the IPCC's 831 lead authors and review editors an attempt to clarify the body's stance on media interaction. In fact, the letter did the opposite, raising concerns from journalists and bloggers, who worried that their access to the world's leading ex... weiterlesen...

Rising Temperatures Could Drastically Alter Yellowstone Meadow Ecosystems

Photos via Iowa State University. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. There is plenty of debate surrounding the potential effects of climate change, but a new study published in the journal weiterlesen...

Russia Launches Barge For Floating Nuclear Power Plant

The barge of Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Academician Lomonosov, is launched at the Baltic Shipyard. Photo via The Voice of Russia. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. Does the idea of a nuclear power plant floating in the ocean leave you a little nervo...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

5 Great Tips on How to Win Over an Eco-Blogger

In light of increased environmental, health and lifestyle awareness around the world, it’s not surprising that green cache can be a key factor in boosting a brand’s reputation and consumer reach. So how do you effectively market a green product in this day and age? Well, considering there are over 130 million blogs on the Internet (according to Technorati), and 350 million ... weiterlesen...

Bat Houses and More: Green Blogger Dads Tell us What They Want This Father’s Day

Photo left via ecx.images-amazon.com. Photo right via news.architecture.sk. Put down that tie and back away slowly: This Father's Day, you can do better. Here's the inside track on this year's perfect gift with suggestions from the men who know best: green bloggers who are also dads. See the products, services, and day trips they are coveting -- and give your dad something to r... weiterlesen...

Renault’s Flagship Factory is Reaching Environmental Heights

Image by B. Alter Renault's factory, Maubeuge Construction Automobile, is its flagship, state of the art environmental workplace. Located in Maubeuge, northern France, since 1978, all the Kangoo vans are made there, as will the new electric Kangoo Be Bop Z.E. in 2011. The factory is usually not open to the public for obvious reasons of confidentiality, but a group of green ... weiterlesen...