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12 One-Year Personal Stunts We Can’t Stop Talking About

December 23, 2009

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No Impact Man movie poster. Image via Ocilloscope Laboratories.

Call them New Year’s resolutions on steroids: The past few years have seen a variety of people publicly pledge to spend 365 days living a more environmentally friendly life, whether by eating locally, eschewing plastic, making one small change a day, or giving up money altogether. Often snapped up eagerly by the media, such initiatives have also been criticized as attention-seeking green stunts that don’t make …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Wrapping Paper

December 10, 2009

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Ahh, the holidays are fast approaching. So, you’ve decided to go green this year: you’ve perused our green gift guide, donated to some great green charities, and now you’ve got a pile of gifts that need to be wrapped. But wait! You’ve been so good keeping eco-friendly this year, can you really stomach the thought of using store-bought wrapping paper? Ugh! It’s just so wasteful, isn’t it? Well, I’ve compiled for you a list of…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dive! the Film: Living Off America’s Trash

December 4, 2009

You know you’ve thought about it. Whether you’ve actually done it or would admit to your friends that the food they are dining on was pulled from a dumpster is another matter. Either way, that scavenger-hunt for adults, known as dumpster diving, does have a slight appeal to it. Who knows what you’ll find? Who knows if you’ll get caught! All of that free stuff just waiting fo…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Attention Green Shoppers: Buy Nothing Day on Cyber Sunday, Too?

November 28, 2009

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“Sit and Spin” submitted by Pearse O’Halloran to Adbusters Media Foundation

Yesterday was the recommended “Buy Nothing Day” in North America. Today, November 28 is “Buy Nothing Day” for the rest of the world, when consumers (that means most of us) “participate by not participating.” The Adbusters BND campaign has been written about in Treehugger with good points about the idea, from why only one day to buying green as an alternative. There are a lot of people facing financial difficulty who …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Give Your Stuff Away Day: A Celebration of Generosity

October 29, 2009

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Image credit: Give Your Stuff Away Day

No sooner had I published my post on Tuesday about rethinking our relationship with stuff, that I get a press release for Give Your Stuff Away Day. Billed as a fun, community event, the idea is to create a celebration in which we share our unwanted possessions—diverting valuable materials from landfill, and maybe even meeting our neighbors in the process. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Love Your Stuff: Material Possessions Are Not Evil

October 27, 2009

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Image credit: Sami Grover

I’ve been thinking a lot about the things we own and what they mean. From Buy Nothing Day to Freecycle to The Story of Stuff, rethinking our relationship to money and material possessions is a central theme within the sustainability debate. Many greens believe we’ve become too wrapped up in our love of stuff. But I wonder if we’ve got it the wrong way around. Maybe we don’…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Would Gandhi Do? Certainly Not Buy a Luxury Fountain Pen

October 2, 2009

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Image credit: Eneas/Flickr

Mahatma Gandhi, born 140 years ago today, is remembered as the father of modern India but it was his simple lifestyle that has continued to inspired activists around the world. This humble aesthetic, however, is at odds with recent attempts to commemorate his legacy. Take, for example, the £15,500 limited-edition Montblanc fountain pen, which features an engraving of Gandhi and comes with a gold string symbolizing his spinning wheel….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sneak Peek at Exclusive Clip From No Impact Man Movie

August 19, 2009

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Click here for exclusive excerpt on Planet Green

In early 2007, writer Colin Beavan started an experiment, which he described as follows:

A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nazi, Turns Off His Power, Composts His Poop and, While Living In New York City, Generally Turns Into a Tree-Hugging Lunatic Who Tries to Save the Polar Bears and The Rest of the Planet from Environmental Catastrophe While Dragging His Baby Daughter and Prada-Wearing, Four Seasons-Loving Wife Along for the Ride.

He called himself …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rate Your Stinky Hippy Factor: Do You Really Need Deodorant?

July 3, 2009

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Photo via Jeff the Trojan @ flickr.

An informal survey of the global TreeHugger gang revealed an interesting (and perhaps slightly redolent) tendency to move away from the use of deodorant each and every day. In fact, the majority of responding THers have partially or even wholly given up on deodorant, primarily kicking the habit due to trouble finding them without pore-clogging aluminum chlorohydrate or petroleum-based propylene glycol.

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