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...TreeHugger attracts about half a million visitors a month, mostly students and designers in their 20s and 30s, and posts an average of 16 entries per weekday. Using the latest in blogging technology, including an interactive broadband channel TreeHuggerTV, Hill is making every effort to get his message of "green" living out to the world. In addition to TreeHugger, Hill maintains a user-generated environmental blog, Hugg.com, and sells a ceramic mug at WeAreHappyToServeYou.com which pays homage to the popular paper cup found in New York City delis...
...kind of car we drive and what our place looks like. That's why gossip mags, TV and movies are so aspirational - it's always about something that is slightly out of our reach ...I want to capitalize on the way that our society seems to work, and make green, help green, profile green as this cool thing to help make it trendy and aspirational...
...people like a fish needs a bicycle. I told you that five years ago, and I'll tell you that again. But these cities are too big to just go walking. So what do you do in highly dense, pedestrian urban environment to bring technology that will make it green and easy and simple and fun to get around? And particularly at a time when the price of fuel is getting outrageous, when the environmental impact is becoming unsustainable, when people are looking for better ways to make their downtown to be a green environment, a fun environment. The reason...
...answer, argued theorists John Schwartz of Caltech and Michael Green of Cambridge University, was to think of the basic units of matter and energy not as particles but as minuscule, vibrating loops and snippets of stuff resembling string, which turn out to exist not just in our familiar four dimensions of space and time but in 10 or more dimensions. Bizarre as it seemed, this scheme appeared on first blush to explain why particles have the characteristics they do. As a side benefit, it also included a quantum version of gravity and thus of relativity. Just as important, nobody...
...Lean Toward Green For die-hard stewards of the earth, there are a handful of institutions that style themselves solely as environmental liberal-arts colleges. Prescott College in Prescott, Ariz., tells prospective students that they will have a chance to do much of their learning in the 1.4 million acres of surrounding national forest. Northland College in Ashland, Wis., encourages hands-on environmentalism. The college's president got into the act herself this summer, spending a month as the sole caretaker and guide at an island lighthouse on Lake Superior...