10:28 pm in charities, Culture & Celebrity, drinking water by TreeHugger
Image: charity: water
Never minimize the ability to live by example. My decision to rock a
charity: water birthday campaign was inspired my fellow 'Huggers who've done the same like our visionary
Graham Hill and our tech/water guru
Jaymi. (If I'm missing anyone, insert your name here.)
Having interviewed
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1:54 pm in charities, china, desertification, drought, sports, taiwan, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: The Home Expedition / Running The Silk Road.
Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the full length of the ancient
Silk Road trading route to raise money for and awareness about
water shortages in the arid Central...
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10:44 am in activism, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, california, car free, Cars & Transportation, charities, ride your bike, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: Mairi Beautyman
There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the
Old Order).
Pennsylvania's
Amish Country: With roads filled with more horse drawn carriages than cars, and rolling fields of farmland, obsessive photo snapping during the 68.7 mile, Day 3 of
Brita Climate Ride NYC-DC 2011 made...
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9:02 pm in activism, animal planet, artists, charities, Culture & Celebrity, endangered species, exhibits, fishing, oceans, Travel & Nature, whales by TreeHugger
Artwork by Jeff Soto.
More than 100 artists have donated art to benefit the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts at the fifth annual
Sea No Evil Art Show featuring works by
Gary Baseman Jeff Soto,, famed street artist and poster designer
Shepard Fairey, and more.
Captain Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd crew members ...
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5:27 pm in actors, awards, celebrities, charities, Culture & Celebrity, ed begley jr., events by TreeHugger
Jamie Lee Curtis praises Global Green's Green Schools and Ed Begley Jr. Photos by R.Cruger
At last weekend's 15th annual Millennium Awards thrown by
Global Green, LA's biggest environmental organization, the honored guests included actor Mark Ruffalo for his anti-hydrofracking efforts, and finally,
Ed Begley Jr. got a prize!
Jamie Lee Curtis introduced him: "Ed's a pulsing example of an environmentalist every single freakin...
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6:00 am in activism, bike friendly world, bikes, biking, california, car free, Cars & Transportation, charities, ride your bike by TreeHugger
Photo: Mairi Beautyman
I have now pedaled 174 miles over three days on the
Cayo 1.0 Road Bike From Focus Bikes, and what can I say, this full-carbon bike is at the top of its class.
It's now approaching
Day 4 of
Brita Climate Ride NYC-DC 2011, a 300-mile, 5-day climate awareness bike ride and fundraiser from New York City to Washington, D.C., and I really can't say anythi...
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pieceHomes and ecofabulous collaborate on home to benefit Global Green. Photos courtesy of ecofabulous
Renewable cork floors and tables, sustainable furnishings, solar shades and solar passive heating; EcoClad and recycled glass tiles, water conserving and energy efficient appliances; low VOC paints and food grade adhesives; Linda Loudermilk's seaweed bedding and even her sustainable clothing in the bamboo plywood closet. That was the taste of what's inside this ec...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Shoppers carry plastic bags in Tripoli, Lebanon. Photo: 
