8:29 minutes (1.95 MB) Who really wants another red sweater or a singing Santa this holiday season? The Lazy Environmentalist gives his top ten guide to giving great green gifts for the holidays. From "eco" calendars to solar-powered backpacks and green concert tickets, these are the gifts guaranteed to bring smiles to your friends and family.
11:36 minutes (2.66 MB) If you're tired of throwing out all those wire hangers you get from the dry cleaners, there may be an alternative—a hanger that combines entrepreneurial enterprise with advertising and environmental concerns. It's the "eco-hanger" from the Hanger Network. Michael Connor talks to CEO Bob Kantor.
9:09 minutes (2.1 MB) Josh Dorfman discusses the trend of "green films." The movie An Inconvenient Truth raised environmental consciousness to new heights. Now Leonardo DiCaprio picks up where Al Gore left off with the release of The 11th Hour, the feature-length environmental documentary that he produced and narrates.
9:02 minutes (2.07 MB) Consuming products to conserve resources may strike us as counterintuitive, but the approach is exactly what we need. Green consumerism is the most effective--and perhaps the only--path to living as well as we possibly can while bringing our lifestyles into balance with the earth’s capabilities to sustain them.
19:11 minutes (4.4 MB) Michael Connor talks to Thomas Kostigen, co-author of The Green Book, a practical guide to green living. He shares some tips on what you can do to help the environment in your everyday life, including suggestions from celebrities such as Will Ferrell, Martha Stewart, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
9:59 minutes (2.29 MB) The collateral and infrastructural effects of Hurricane Katrina have long been acknowledged as massive. Parks, playgrounds and green spaces were also washed away, representing an environmental loss in the Gulf Region that time cannot heal and apathy cannot ignore. In this segment of Meet the Planet Katie Rose, AmeriCorp Field Director of the Gulf Coast Recovery Corp/SCA partnership, discu
8:18 minutes (1.9 MB) Whether driving our cars or powering our homes, simply living our daily lives causes tons of pollution. So offsetting our environmental impact through the purchase of renewable energy credits is one way to move toward a carbon neutral lifestyle. Josh Dorfman discusses exactly what is meant by energy credits and the forward-thinking organizations that are making these choices easy and effective.