Articles tagged “Downloads”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

5 Great iPhone Apps for Vegans By NaturallySavvy.com IN Tech & Transport Oct 10 2010 Being vegan can be difficult, particularly when you're just starting out, but vegan iPhone users can get a little help with a variety of apps gears toward people who don't eat animal products. + READ MORE

Help Save Tigers with One Text (and $10) By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 9 2010 The World Wildlife Fund's Year of the Tiger Campaign aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, and they're calling on everyone to donate $10 to the cause with a simple text message. + READ MORE

Eat Better, Live Healthier with Moleskine's Wellness Journal By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Mar 18 2010 Track your progress to a healthier life with Moleskine's Wellness Journal--or do it on the cheap (or rather, free) by printing off the page templates from their website. + READ MORE

New iPhone App Helps Locate Free, Hyper-Local Fruit By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Jan 29 2010 At last. Find Fruit, the mobile companion to NeighborhoodFruit.com, would help me locate fruit trees on public land on the go. Users simply plug in the current location (street address) into their iPhone to locate the closest fruit trees. + READ MORE

How to Digitize and Shrink Your Entire Music Library By Trevor Reichman IN Tech & Transport Jan 22 2010 Going to an exclusively digital music lifestyle frees up space in your closet or storage unit and puts your CDs, cassettes, and vinyl albums back into circulation to be reused. Besides the obvious tools to go digital, such as an MP3 player and an iTunes type program to convert your music into a digital format, here are a few other tools to include in your arsenal. + READ MORE

Get Your Reading Fix for Free with e-Books By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Dec 2 2009 Reading books on your laptop is one option for minimizing how many paper books you consume. Here are the easiest ways to get free e-books: + READ MORE

Go Green With Ubuntu By David DeFranza IN Tech & Transport Apr 24 2009 Ubuntu is a word of Bantu origin that describes a complex concept difficult to translate. Roughly, it refers to the idea that a human cannot live in isolation. Ubuntu is also the name of the most popular open-source Linux computer operating system. + READ MORE

Stop the Sniffles (and Deforestation) With Greenpeace's Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Feb 23 2009 Just in time for winter's cold and flu season, the environmental organization Greenpeace just released its Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide ranking various brands of facial tissue, paper towel, toilet paper and napkins. + READ MORE

Petition to Fight Climate Change and Download Free Missy Higgins Song By Jessica Root IN Tech & Transport Jan 23 2009 If you haven?t heard a tune from Missy Higgins yet--you should. Not only is the young Australian singer/songwriter easy on the ears, she?s an advocate for environmental causes. + READ MORE

How Can Obama Save the Planet? Read The 100 Day Action Plan E-book By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport Nov 14 2008 Read about a pressing green issue (just about all of them, really) in the greenest way you can—in an E-book. William S Becker's provocatively titled 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet broaches a very timely subject in the greenest manner possible. + READ MORE

USB-Based Gloves, Green Pet Care Tips and Why to Carpool to the Polls! By Jessica Root IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 31 2008 Keep your digits toasty while you download with USB gloves. Feed Fido organic food or pamper him with non-toxic plush toys? Share your green pet care tips with fellow readers! All this and more, today on TreeHugger. + READ MORE

7 Downloads That Turn Your PC From Energy Sucker to Energy Sipper By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Oct 23 2008 Computers can suck up a whole lot of power. Many times, people will leave them running all day and all night for a range of reasons, not the least of which is because they simply forget to them shut down. Here are seven downloadable software programs that take the effort out of conserving energy wherever you can. + READ MORE

Take a Green Walking Tour of London, Shop Your Way to Healthy and Listen to an Eco-Shoe Guru By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 11 2008 Hop the pond to a greener London. Consult the Good Guide to help make healthy shopping easy. Become eco-inspired listening to our interview with the creator of sustainable shoe brand, Toms. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Today on TreeHugger By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Jun 4 2008 Hear what homegrown foodie, Barbara Kingsolver has to say about agribusiness. Tell us; are you stuck with an SUV? Read about Brad Pitt's newest eco-project. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Make a Gadget Cozy From Old Jeans By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 29 2008 Don't let that old pair of jeans go to waste, even if it's no longer fit for human consumption. Learn how you can dress up your cell phone or MP3 player with some used denim. + READ MORE

Make a Cereal Box Wallet By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 25 2008 An empty cereal box doesn't have to go straight to the recycling bin. You can turn it into a snazzy wallet for filling with cash, business cards, or even coupons for buying more cereal. + READ MORE

Find Fair Trade Producers on Google Earth By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Apr 18 2008 TransFair USA, the only third-party certifier of fair-trade products in the United States, has joined up with Google Earth to bring you a new way to explore fair-trade connections around the world from your desktop. + READ MORE

Cut Down on Your Wasted Food By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Mar 27 2008 We've talked a lot at Planet Green about using leftovers and creating less waste.Keep a food waste diary: They got this idea from the U.K. campaign Love Food, Hate Waste, where you can download a free food waste diary. + READ MORE

Green Your Home For Savings: More Than We Previously Predicted By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Feb 5 2008 Philadelphia Architect Charlie Szoradi and real estate agent Cynthia Szoradi spent three years converting a '50s bungalow into an eco-sustainable home and learned a lot in the process.For example, where the RMI predicted savings of $58.10 per year by installing a programmable thermostat, Charlie predicts $180.Where we... + READ MORE

Download, Print CD Storage Art By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 16 2008 A fusion of small-space storage and modern design, Studio Lo's wall-mounted CD pockets are a boon to those who are short on square footage, but have plenty of bare walls to spare.The entire site is in French, but scroll down to the bottom of the Objets page and you'll find a basic instructional on how to fold your... + READ MORE