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Dates: during 2000-2009
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STREISAND: Oh, yeah. He's a great hugger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: High Drama, Low Comedy | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...environmentally friendly sport-utility vehicle? It's a tree hugger's dream, right up there with a fat-free cheeseburger and a healthy cigarette. So when Ford offered me an early test drive in its 2005 Escape Hybrid SUV, I was, suffice it to say, a tad skeptical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Test Drive: Ford Escape: A Smooth Ride | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...more grains, fruits and vegetables (but not exclusively) and cut back on fat and sweets (but not too much). Marketers are playing up the gourmet aspects of their products--and charging premium prices. "A lot of companies don't want to sell an organic product with a tree-hugger image anymore," says Michelle Barry, an analyst with the Hartman Group, a Seattle-based market-research firm. "They're marketing these products for their taste appeal and the social status connected with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organic Growth | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...riled up about land-use issues? In the debate over the West's natural resources, many of you resorted to what the cowboys used to call fightin' words. "It's time for you left-wing media types to sit down, shut up and stop banging the tree-hugger drum," snapped a South Carolina man. Just as upset was a Louisiana woman who decried "the sickening, arrogant bias of TIME's reporting. The Unabomber is the spiritual brother of the environmentalists of whom you seem so enamored." On the other side of the shoot-out, a man from Bainbridge Island, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 2001 | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Some of the sequoias Clinton preserved in the 328,000-acre monument are only the third generation since the last Ice Age, part of a family of trees that has endured fires, earthquakes, storms and every change of political leadership since human history began. "I am not a tree hugger, but these sequoias evoke an almost religious feeling in me," says Joe Fontaine, 67, a retired schoolteacher from Bakersfield who has campaigned for 40 years to stop logging near the sequoias. Sequoias themselves are too brittle for timber yards, but if trees all around them are logged, their shallow roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Was Bill? | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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