Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or ...

Zem Joaquin enjoying her moment at Global Green Awards; Photo credit: Alyssa Nicol The Global Green Awards held at the end of May highlighted some amazingly talented people who are moving green mainstream. Among those honored was Zem Joaquin, founder of Ecofabulous, which is a TreeHugger favorite for eco-friendly fashion. Zem was given the Founder...

Most of us know Josh Dorfman for being lazy. I didn’t say it, he did—having dubbed himself 'The Lazy Environmentalist' in his book, blog and ...

The Cool Globes eco-art project currently on display at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park, exhibits giant 5-foot by 7-foot globes decorated, painted, sculpted, and designed by artists, from the Blue Man Group to Jim Dine, with meaningful environmental messages. The collection, originally installed in Chicago in 2007, has toured San Francisco Golden G...

Photo: Gene Hunt via Flickr Imagine that you are on a rocket ship that might be headed into the sun. One of the leading scientists on board tells everyone that the ship is going to become trapped in the sun‘s gravitational pull within ten years. The scientist shows everyone a picture of the rocket ship’s trajectory into the sun. He uses evenly...

On Friday afternoon, Diana, a volunteer "trash talker" at Bonnaroo, was picking a cup out of a trash can. "This is for the compost -- it's made of corn!" she told a bleary-eyed festival-goer. "A lot of people are surprised they can compost the cups, the plates, forks and knives -- everything," she told TreeHugger. "Zero waste is the goal." But gi...

Photo via: The Prodigal Untitled13 James Price, a retired U.S. Army attack helicopter pilot, used to drink three quarts of soy milk every day. Now he believes that ding so may have had an effect on the size of his genitals. “I won't say it atrophied,” said Price in a recent interview with ...

Image from Swoon It's the Venice Biennale again, the celebrity and champagne studded art fair, where it's not clear whether the parties or the art are what's on show. Each country has a pavilion on the shores of the magical city, and each pavilion features a famous artist. Floating along the shores will be a fleet of three intricately hand craft...

At tonight's IREO Renewable Energy Awards at the United Nations, film director and author Josh Tickell will be named a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and accept an award for his work. What work you say? Well, the trailer embedded above for his film ...

Photos: Tesla Motors, Space X Oh Boy! This Can't End Well... Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard filed a 22 page suit against Tesla's current CEO, Elon Musk, accuses him of "taking control of the company, orchestrating his ouster in 2007 and attempting to 'rewrite history' to take credit for developing the pioneering electric Roadster the two men...

Photo thedigitel via flickr. Most bike commuters find that the negative assumptions they had about bike commuting are mostly false. This goes double for women, who might find that riding in high heels is easier than walking in them; a special wardrobe is not necessarily required (though fun); and that biking boosts a sense of freedom in ways a car...

Two of the world's most famous do-gooder parents with their latest babes. Image via: Blogspot.com Not only do celebs get lots of free stuff, but now their babies are cashing in on the gravy train as well, with extravagant baby showers and lots and lots of free giveaways. Some celebrities are choosing to sell their baby's photo to the highest bidde...

Image via: Soul Majestic "The Better World," the latest album by Soul Majestic, takes an often depressing subject - the state of the world - puts it to a reggae beat, blends in empowering lyrics and helps you get back on that horse to ride another day into battle. This 7-member band does more than talk the talk by bringing their green act to a gre...

Last week Mashable kicked off the first Summer of Social Good, which aims to leverage social media to raise money for The Humane Society, Oxfam, Livestrong and WWF. Well, now they're shifting into high gear for the $100K in 1 Week Challenge. Here's how it'll work:... ...

Photo courtesy of Elle Wedding Photography A week ago I had the delightful task of throwing a dinner as part of a sweepstakes put on by heating and cooling company, Lennox Industries. It was called the Get a Green Life Sweepstakes, and a winner was chosen at random out of thousands of entries to win a green party for the winner and seven friends, ...

Why? Peak Oil. Jeff Rubin is a regular supplier of great quotes to TreeHugger (like his description of the tar sands: "You know you are at the bottom of the ninth when you are schlepping a tonne of sand to get a barrel of oil" ) For almost twenty years he was chief economist for CIBC World Markets, but has left that comfortable world to spread a n...

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard recently took a tour of the White House garden and clearly came away impressed. Howard, who was baseball's Rookie of the year in 2005 and then MVP the following year, said he has been eating organic and dropped 20 pounds!... ...

Image credit: David Carlson, Betsy Stewart, and Ashraf Fouad, video still from "Watering" (2008) The myriad and sometimes contradictory qualities of water -- both life-giving and destructive, powerful and serene, a barrier and a bond between people -- make it a fertile subject for fine art, as you'll see in the work of these painters, sculptors, p...

Photo credit: Prairie Underground No matter what the season, Prairie Underground is always a delicious melange of rustic and romantic, fusing designers Camilla Eckersley and Davora Lindne's Midwest roots with their veneration for London's New Romantic music movement and the '80s East Village art scene. ... ...