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Whether you’re a treehugger or a lazy environmentalist (or anything in between), check out these six very cool (yet very troubling) animated short videos about coal and other fossil fuels, bottled water, electronics, and other environmental issues and challenges. Here are three of our particular favorites: More
Norwegians are smart. They live in a super-wealthy kingdom. It’s sparsely populated (fewer than five million people). Their country has one of the highest standards of living on earth. They have universal health care, free higher education, and social security. It’s clean. They have fjords. (Only problem I see is that sometimes it stays dark all day.)
Another thing Norway has on everybody else, particularly the U.S.? They’ve been using environtmentally-conscious “green” roofs for a really long time. Damn, those Scandinavians are good. More
Magic Johnson and a horse jockey walk into a Buick dealership in 1980. There’s a big Buick and a small Buick. (Get it?) Hilarity ensues in this vintage TV commercial, but mostly because the “efficient” Electra Limited gets a whopping 18 miles per gallon: More
If you were a fan of Dallas back in the day (and who wasn’t?), you know that J.R. Ewing as a big-wig oil tycoon who only associated the color green with money – and got shot. But now, J.R.’s back, … More
Most of the U.S. seems to be moving in the right direction (slowly but surely) as far as eco-friendly transportation goes. Cities are creating Bike-to-Work events and using hybrid buses and taxis. But Black Hawk, Colorado, just took a big … More
With all the catastrophic environmental criminality that’s been happening in the Gulf of Mexico for the past, oh, three months, we really thought corporations might be a tad more sensitive to the idea of bottled water, and how plastic bottles … More
If you need something to occupy yourself today while BP is trying to put a new cap on the leaking oil well in the Gulf, we’ve got just the thing. It’s called Instant Oil Spill, and it’s an interactive site … More
In an ideal world, we’d take public transit and ride our bikes everywhere, but in real life, some places are just better to get to with a car. That’s the problem that a new company called Treadway is trying to … More
There’s really not much else we can add – this cartoon says it all. If only we could just laugh off this comic strip.
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If you’re anything like us, you often dreamed of riding in a blimp as a kid. So you’ll be thrilled to know that blimps may be the eco-friendly transportation of the future. Using blimps instead of airplanes would cut global … More
Okay, we may have given Odwalla a gentle knock in our 25 Energy Bars vs. 25 Candy Bars post, but today we’ve got nothing but praise after their announcement that they’re donating 200,000 trees to parks across the country. The … More
When you think about hippies, you probably picture pot-smoking, long hair, and Volkswagen Beetles. Way back when, they were the official hippie-mobiles, and some hardcore treehuggers are probably still driving around (following The Dead, of course) wearing tie-dyed shirts in … More
Last week in Montcoal, West Virginia, an explosion inside a Massey Energy Company coal mine killed 29 men. Just four short years ago, 12 miners died inside West Virginia’s Sago coal mine. Nationwide, the powerful coal mining industry provides consistent … More
