Tag Archives: culture & celebrity

A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Photo: David de Rothschild Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker shouldn’t miss, and are also just plain fun. One of these parties, this upcoming Tuesday, December 14th, is the annual Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party . The party will be held at MI-5 bar in T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Go here to see the original:
A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Comments Off on A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Photo: David de Rothschild Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker shouldn’t miss, and are also just plain fun. One of these parties, this upcoming Tuesday, December 14th, is the annual Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party . The party will be held at MI-5 bar in T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

See original here:
A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Comments Off on A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

From Eels to Kisses: 6 Wacky Ways Cities are Lighting Up Christmas Trees

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on From Eels to Kisses: 6 Wacky Ways Cities are Lighting Up Christmas Trees

Photo: The New England Aquarium The famous Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center made headlines when it got an eco-friendly makeover in 2007, replacing its conventional lights with 30,000 LEDs. But that’s not enough to make it the world’s most eco-friendly tree: From Lima to Copenhagen and Barcelona to Pittsburgh, cities around the world have gone to extreme — and downright wacky — lengths to celebrate sustainability while marking the start of the holiday season…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

Excerpt from:
From Eels to Kisses: 6 Wacky Ways Cities are Lighting Up Christmas Trees

Comments Off on From Eels to Kisses: 6 Wacky Ways Cities are Lighting Up Christmas Trees

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , ,

Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds

Photo credit: / Creative Commons Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom has been lauded for it’s critique of middle-class American family life. There is another theme, however, that has slowly begun to attract attention: The place sustainability issues in pop culture…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

The rest is here:
Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds

Comments Off on Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile

Photo Catholic Westminster via flickr and Creative Commons license . Pope Benedictus XVI wants to replace his gas-driven ‘Popemobile’ (the ‘Papamobile’ in Italian) with a solar-powered version, according to a cardinal of the Vatican. Benedictus wants to show his concern for the environment. But that’s not all. The Vatican has unveiled a book of the Catholic city-state’s other eco-projects, including the installation of 2,700 solar panels on an ‘audience hall’ in 2008, a solar cooling unit in the cafeteria, and other smaller pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Read more here:
The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile

Comments Off on The Pope Wants a Solar-Powered Popemobile

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

From a psychological and metaphysical perspective global climate change, just a symptom of the greater problem of unsustainable resource usage by humans, isn’t a problem of greenhouse gases, it’s a problem of lack of empathy and the triumph of cynicism. I’ve written about this many times on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Go here to see the original:
Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

Comments Off on Is Empathy The Most Important Survival Skill of the 21st Century? John Marshall Roberts Thinks So (Video)

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Stop Signs Turned Into Giant Flowers!

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Stop Signs Turned Into Giant Flowers!

Photo: Mark Jenkins And Now For Something on the Lighter Side… The urban landscape can be depressing… But that’s what guerilla artists are for! Our cities, where most of humanity now lives, should be vibrant and alive and colorful, not drab successions of near-identical streets. There should be limits to what can be done (safety, destruction of property), but some spaces should be left open to artistic expression if cities are to be more livable. Authorities should actually encourage it, like Toronto’s

Original post:
Stop Signs Turned Into Giant Flowers!

Comments Off on Stop Signs Turned Into Giant Flowers!

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , ,

COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of

View post:
COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Comments Off on COP16 May Fail to Stop Climate Change, But An Abolitionist Shift Will

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Apparently a Woman in Spain Now Owns the Sun

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Apparently a Woman in Spain Now Owns the Sun

Photo: meddygarnet / CC It’s the source of energy that drives virtually all systems on Earth , making life itself possible on what would otherwise be a cold, inhospitable rock in the vastness of space — the Sun. And, after what would appear to be a clerical oversight by the whole of humani… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Originally posted here:
Apparently a Woman in Spain Now Owns the Sun

Comments Off on Apparently a Woman in Spain Now Owns the Sun

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Crazy Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost (Plus, Some You Can’t), Holiday Edition

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Crazy Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost (Plus, Some You Can’t), Holiday Edition

Sure, it’s lucky. But can it can be composted? Photo: CarbonNYC , Creative Commons. This is a guest article by Sara Ost, editor of EcoSalon.com , the conscious culture and fashion website. Fresh on the heels of the pizza box scandal , in which EcoSalon cleared up some mysteries with recyling, we’ve uncovered more items that you can’t compost — and some surprising ones you can. This being the holiday season, we enter a whole new level of composting controversy. S… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Go here to read the rest:
Crazy Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost (Plus, Some You Can’t), Holiday Edition

Comments Off on Crazy Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost (Plus, Some You Can’t), Holiday Edition

Posted in Hot Stuff, News

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,