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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Apr 6 2009
After four-plus years of exploring, critiquing, and lauding the modern world of green, we at TreeHugger—sister site of Planet Green—thought it was high time we gave props to the people, organizations, products and ideas that give us something to write about everyday, and Earth Month seemed the appropriate time to do it. So we put our heads together and nominated, debated, and, finally, selected what we believe to be the best-of-the-best when it comes to today's environmentalism. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 12 2009
After launching her career in environmental journalism at E/The Environmental Magazine nine years ago, Starre Vartan has written for many of the media outlets--Plenty, Audubon Magazine, Grist--that have helped shape the modern green movement. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Feb 5 2009
As CEO and co-founder of Ecolect, an online database of environmentally friendly materials, Matt Grigsby combines his passion for industrial design, entrepreneurism, and sustainability. His firm, which oversees consulting projects for major players including LG Electronics,GM, Targus, and the Boston Children's Museum, and delves into research initiatives that help designers and architects determine just how green various materials are, and which will best suit their specific projects. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Jan 29 2009
After a decade of success as textile-print designer, Nancy Mims co-founded, upholstery and wallpaper company Mod Green Pod, where she currently serves as creative director. With her keen sense of color and delightful preppy-gone-mod patterns, she quickly endeared herself to the growing green design scene that was hungry for hip designs in a world where few had yet been born. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Jan 15 2009
Within less than a year, Tom Callos did his first Judo roll and read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The two subjects-personal self-defense and environmental self-defense-quickly became intertwined in his mind and his life. That was 1970. Today, the sixth-degree black belt, who resides in Hilo, Hawaii. To date, more than 100 martial arts schools globally have also embraced Callos's Environmental Self-Defense Intuitive, which asks teachers to require their young students to perform 10 acts of environmental self-defense along with the physical requirements in order to earn the rank of "green belt." + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Dec 22 2008
Though she studied architecture and art in college in Pennsylvania, it was a move to the mountains of Oregon—where she lived and worked in an organic farming eco-villageM—that shaped Jill Palermo into the environmentalist she is today. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Dec 4 2008
Like any college student pursuing academic goals in the Seattle area, Larry Larson fell in love with coffee. But his affection for java didn't stop when the late-night cram sessions did. Today, his shop roasts beans "in ridiculously small batches" in order to bring out the best flavor from his various sustainable coffee offerings, which are 100 percent Fair Trade, shade-grown and organic or transitional organic. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Home & Garden Nov 25 2008
The best party planners always have a way of making every detail looking oh-so polished yet entirely effortless. And the best eco-friendly doyennes do it with natural flair. So just how do they pull off holiday d?cor that looks like it was plucked from the backyard, yet refined enough for a royal audience? Celebrity party-planning expert Marcy Blum says it's easier than it looks, and elegant and cost-effective to boot. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Oct 8 2008
Did you know the average American household has about $100 in spare change lying around? That pocket change can be all it takes for a poor person to work her way out of poverty. Tracey Turner, founder and general manager of MicroPlace, is using that money to make a massive change. + READ MORE
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By Meaghan O'Neill IN Work & Connect Oct 3 2008
David Buckland is an internationally renowned photographer, filmmaker, and designer whose work has appeared in venues such as the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. But Buckland?s latest project has taken him far from the halls of high art and into the lands and seas of the High Arctic to explore the effects of climate change. + READ MORE
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