Pro surfer Kyle Thiermann believes that making waves is just as important as catching them. Armed with a video camera and the financial support of some pretty impressive sponsors, including the outdoors industry mega-badass, Patagonia, the 20-year-old Green Business student uses the power of digital information to fight for social… Read the rest
Physically active history buffs, naturalists and curiosity seekers from across the Pacific Northwest are gearing up for The Century Paddle, a five-day, 110-mile sea kayak expedition from Willamette Falls to the confluence of the Columbia River with the Pacific. The event, which lasts from August 30 – September 4 and… Read the rest
While the full environmental impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill will not be known for years, scientific evidence seems to point to one inevitable conclusion: it’s going to be ugly – really ugly. And as images of animals choking on crude spill across the internet, beautiful ocean lovers all… Read the rest
This video came across my desk courtesy of the good folks over at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In it, a montage of beautifully shot but highly disturbing photographs from the Gulf oil spill are juxtaposed with quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward. Click on the screen to learn how… Read the rest
Lightweight and nutritious, energy bars may be the perfect trail food, but does the luxury of having the ideal snack warrant contributing to landfill waste? It’s the ultimate leave-no-trace hiker’s dilemma. Back in March of 2009 we ran a story titled The Energy Bar Wrapper Dilemma, which discusses the frustrating… Read the rest
The National Milk Producers Federation here in the U.S. is lobbying to try to stop any non-mammalian milk product manufacturers from using the term ‘milk’ in their company names. For example, they don’t want hemp milk or soy milk companies to be able to use the word milk, whereas buffalo… Read the rest
Wend magazine Editor-in-Chief and Surfrider Foundation Ambassador Stiv Wilson is on a sailboat with Dr. Marcus Eriksen of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation on an environmental research mission to explore plastic in the Sargasso Sea.
Here is his latest update, sent to Wend HQ via satellite:… Read the rest
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Does the paper waste generated by day-to-day operations in your office drive you mad? Would the never-ending deluge of TPS reports you and your colleagues have to fill out look better in the toilet than on your boss’s desk? Well, if you have $100,000 and an inkling for irony then… Read the rest
Grist Article: Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Follow Joe Mohr’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons… Read the rest
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
When man … Read the rest
