Articles tagged “Maps”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

They Draw & Travel Features Art, Adventure & Maps By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 2 2011 They Draw & Travel is a site of illustrated maps, to places people have visited, hope to visit, or like to call home. Got an idea? + READ MORE

iuMAP Tracks and Maps Global Social Good Projects By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Work & Connect Aug 10 2010 There are thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of projects in the works across the world that help alleviate poverty, but finding them so they can be utilized can be problematic. A new project called iuMAP, however, is fixing the issue by tracking and mapping all the market-based solutions projects around the globe. + READ MORE

Upcycle Clipboards as Photo Hangers, Art or Organizers By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Jan 12 2010 Clipboards get beat up over time, but a little crafty ingenuity will have them in tip top shape in no time -- and these refurbished clipboards are great decor elements. + READ MORE

Truly Gifted: An A-Z DIY Holiday Workshop For The Traveler On Your Holiday List By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 22 2009 A high-octane storm blanketed areas of the Northeast during the peak of the holiday shopping and travel season. Stranded for hours and sometimes days, makes packing for the unknown challenging. What do travelers need? + READ MORE

Drilling for Gas: Home-Grown Energy Isn't Necessarily So Green By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 17 2009 As if global warming and wars over oil weren't enough to put a little guilt cloud over our energy consumption patterns, there's a host of other, much closer-to-home environmental problems that need to be addressed if we are to get on the right track to a clean energy future.The "Halliburton loophole," which the oil and... + READ MORE

Yard Sale Treasure Map Counts the Paces to Your Local Hoard By David DeFranza IN Home & Garden Oct 6 2009 Saturday comes around and you feel like picking up some cheap used home items, browsing some street-side fashions, or digging through a crate of old books. The place you want to go is, of course, a local yard sale. But how do you know where to go? Paper signs on telephone poles are great, until it rains and the text blurs, or the wind blows turns them into a litter problem. Plus, unless you happen to walk or drive by, you'll never know there's a great sale just down the block. Now, there is a geeky solution for yard sale power shoppers. + READ MORE

Make A Castle Bookmark From Scrap Paper By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Jun 24 2009 After a recent trip to Western Germany where beautiful castles decorate the landscape, part of me transitioned back into a princess and castle-loving little girl. When I found a map in my backpack upon arriving home, I decided to make a castle-shaped bookmark out of it. Whether you love castles yourself or some little princess in your life does, it's easy to make a castle-shaped bookmark from maps and all other sorts of scrap paper rather than throwing that paper away. Of course your design of a castle doesn't have to be the same as mine. In fact, I bet you can come up with something even better. + READ MORE

Gear Your Vacation Around the "Getting There Greener" Guide By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors May 28 2009 Wanting to show that the journey is just as important as the final eco-destination, The Union of Concerned Scientists released a comprehensive analysis of the highest and lowest carbon options for vacation travel. + READ MORE

How is Climate Change Affecting Your Region? Find Out with Terrifying Interactive Map By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport May 18 2009 Sometimes climate change just seems like an abstraction—like some environmental doomsday scenario whose consequences lurk far in the future. Of course, global warming has begun to effect ecosystems and weather patterns—and entire human communities—across the globe already. + READ MORE

Stock Up on Biodiesel: Now Hundreds of Fueling Stations Across the US By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport May 7 2009 So you converted your car to run on biodiesel. You're ready to take your newly greened beauty on a road trip across the country on its virgin run. Problem is, you're not so sure where exactly you can buy biodiesel. + READ MORE

Geography + Technology + Trivia = Fun with "Where on Google Earth?" By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 2 2009 Laugh all you want. Yell "Nerd!" at me (or rather at your computer screen, whereupon you'll quickly realize how weird it is you're yelling at anything at all while alone in your apartment—don't worry, happens to me all the time) if you must. But this is the coolest geography based online trivia game I've ever seen. + READ MORE

Should You Fly or Drive? By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 24 2009 Which is greener: Flying or driving? That's a no-brainer. Individually speaking, airplanes produce scads more CO2 emissions that cars. Are there any cases where flying is better than driving? Yes, there are. Let?s look at some of these instances. + READ MORE

Clean a Local River, Check Out Environmental Art, Learn About Dying Oceans, and Hug Trees Digitally By David DeFranza IN Work & Connect Mar 5 2009 Today on TreeHugger: Clean a local river, check out environmental art, learn about dying oceans, and hug trees digitally. + READ MORE

Vegan Cosmetics, Urban Space Station, Parking the Yurt, and Mapping Carbon By David DeFranza IN Home & Garden Feb 20 2009 Today on TreeHugger: Vegan cosmetics, urban space station, parking the yurt, and mapping carbon. + READ MORE

Where Do the Worst Polluters in the US Live? By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 29 2009 Nobody likes pollution. Even a hardcore pro-industry, SUV drivin', hippy hatin' factory tycoon wouldn't want to linger outdoors on a windless summer day in Beijing. Or even LA. Yet our collective distaste for pollution often doesn't evolve far beyond that: we consider it sort of like a faceless evil force that spews out of unnamed Factories. Pollution is bad, we know, but we don't consider exactly where it comes from. + READ MORE

How To Fall In Love With Your City Again By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 15 2009 Sometimes what you need to do more than anything else is fall in love with the city in which you live again. It's easy to daydream about vacation trips you could embark on, but a lot of people find themselves doing this before they've really explored their own cities. I know because I am one of those people. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Biome By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 24 2008 A biome is ?a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. ... Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to the small differences in climate and the environment inside the biome.? + READ MORE

Organic Yerba Mate, Your Perfectly Green Address and Confessions of an Eco-Sinner By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Dec 4 2008 Score a good deal on Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate, a delicious and healthy coffee alternative. Looking to move? Find your perfect, green address using this cool new website. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Get On Board With Solar Powered GPS Systems By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Dec 4 2008 I'm not always one to be on the move with the latest technological advances, but there is one little gadget that I am 100% down with: the GPS. But with so many systems on the line, knowing which one to buy can be difficult. Luckily for us all, there are some systems that are more eco-friendly than others. + READ MORE

Stow a Green Kit in your Glove Compartment By Megan Cohen IN Tech & Transport Nov 24 2008 Sure, it's great to have green gear, but it's not that great unless you have it right when you need it. Turn your wheels into an eco-treasure trove by stocking the glove compartment of your car with a couple of green essentials that'll banish the classic "I got this awesome green thing but never use it 'cause I always leave it at home" syndrome. + READ MORE