There is a price to pay for cheap energy and gas for our cars that goes beyond dollars, as we saw this year with the 29 dead miners in West Virginia and the 11 on the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf. American labor used to make things and fix things, and used to be proud to do it, for a decent wage.

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If you prefer to walk or bike instead of using a car, enjoy being outside, use reusable bags, avoid plastic bottles, eat meat sparingly or not at all, research makeup and cosmetic products for safety, carry a refillable water bottle, and generally avoid buying crap you don’t need and using the stuff you do have as long as it is useful, then you are well on your way to successfully completing by DoSomething’s Weekend Without Oil challenge. So sign the pledge!

The Weekend Without Oil is this weekend – August 21 & 22 – and aims to educate teens and pe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Sierra Club is excited to announce a new opportunity to participate in the growing youth-driven movement to engage in community service while also honoring those who defend our country every day.

This week we launched Serve Outdoors, a call to participate in the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

For the past seven year now the SRD (Society for Responsible Design) have held their Change design exhibition showing the latest graduate student thinking around environmentally and socially responsible design solutions. And this year its on again. Right now.

So, if you want to know where the fresh green thinking is imagining our world should be headed in the spheres of Architecture, Interiors, Industrial Design, Landscape, Fashion and Visual Communications check it out, in the few day left until 15 August 2010…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

In an effort to highlight the major social and environmental impacts of the fashion and textile industries, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and graduates from the MA Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion present “Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches,” which opened this weekend at CCANW’s Project Space, in the heart of Haldon Forest Park (Exeter, Devon, UK).

The interact… Read the full story on TreeHugger

We’ve been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had been plucked straight from our heads. With a goal of getting teens to reduce their oil consumption, the Weekend Without Oil will be held August 21 & 22nd, so mark your calendar!

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Foodprint was founded in New York last summer by Sarah Rich (of Worldchanging fame) and Nicola Twilley (of Edible Geography) as a series of international conversations about food and the city….a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores the past, present, and future of food and the city.” Sarah and Nicola have gathered a stellar list of local and international moderators and panelists for this year’s event in Toronto, Canada.

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The five Barcelona-based Residual Gurus have decided to fight trash with comical roaming concerts, and are touring Europe at the moment. These talented musicians know how to transform rubbish into a spiritual performance that turns the street into a stimulating yet unpredictable haven. “Eastern rhythms, electronic sounds, original instruments, laughter, meditation and improvisation combine in an unrepeatable, collective ritual.” The musical group Karam started the show Residual Gurus last year to raise awareness about our trash pro… Read the full story on TreeHugger