The Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics encourage writers and photographers to contribute to their new online book, Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming. Hurry, the deadline is tomorrow--November 15!
AlterNet, the news and advocacy website, publishes the book, Water Consciousness: How We All Have To Change To Protect Our Most Critical Resource.
A jewelry designer transforms trashed soda and juice containers into earrings.
Photo via Arwen Abendstern
Feel like voting for a good idea and helping to make it happen? Dream Village has come up with a great idea for writing inspirational true-story books for kids that get them revved up about social change and environmental activism. The organization is a nonprofit that raises funds for activism, which the kids who read the books can decide how best to use.
Too much of a good thing (like fair trade, organic and homemade Halloween treats) can still be a bad thing. See how to prevent your kids--and yourself--from OD'ing on sugar this Halloween.
Starbuck's announces it will double its purchases of fair trade coffee to 40 million pounds in 2009--making the company the largest purchaser of Fair Trade Certified™ coffee in the world.
Photo of data center via Robert Scoble
I’d like to think that here at TreeHugger, we give you all the Green IT run down you need to stay on top of things like data center improvements, smart grid info, green computer upgrades and whatnot – and all in real time, for free! But, if you feel the itch for something more, there happens to be a new reader-friendly resource coming your way in March of 2009. ...
We've often talked about e-readers here at TreeHugger. Some folks are fans, calling out the greener elements of reading from something like a Kindle versus buying a paper book. Others are not so much the e-reader fans, pointing towards libraries and borrowing from friends as the best way to greenly read.
Photo via Mooganic, and Causewired
You're here on TreeHugger, so you likely feel a connection between being online and being active in social change. That connection - using the internet as a means of doing good for the world - is quickly spreading thanks to the rise of social networking, free-to-use platforms for websites, and a broadening number of devices through which we can connect to the web.
Photo provided by Bioneers
Think of Janine Benyus, and your brain will likely bounce right to biomimicry.
Benyus is someone we've talked about often before, but just to refresh you, she is the president of the Biomimicry Institute and spoke at last weekend's Bioneers conference.
Most people complain of hating high school. But that might be because they didn't get to do cool stuff like make an electric car - or it is because they didn't go to High Tech High.
During a speech by Kenny Ausubel at Bioneers, the future of the conference was discussed, including ways to spread the word about environmental education.
Mentioned as one way forward for Bioneers is creating an educast, or a mobile way of getting educational lectures out to people who want to learn - from students at universities to participants in non-profit organizations.
When I first got my reviewers copy of the Encyclopedia of Earth, I thought, what a dumb idea, nobody uses encyclopedia anymore with Wikipedia or Google around. In fact, there already is an online version with the same name. Why bother?
Then I opened it up and memories of my childhood flooded back, the hours spent poring over every page of the Life Science Library and the Golden Book encyclopedia that I loved, or the time spent in Eyewitness Books when my kids were little. It may be designed as a reference book, but it tells the story of our planet like a great novel.
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The journey of the UK ethical fashion label People Tree has been a remarkable one. As founder Safia Minney says in the introduction of her new book By Hand the story started in Japan in 1991 "and 14 years later I found myself sitting at the World Economic Forum in Davos." It is an amazing achievement for a grass roots Fair Trade fashion company to have such an influential voice on the world stage.
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