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Blog Entries by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Convenient Truths: The Envelope, Please

Posted April 19, 2007 | 05:33 PM (EST)


For the last four and half months, we've encouraged you to both reduce your personal carbon footprint, and to participate in Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths video contest. Today, we're pleased to wrap up the contest by announcing the winners. The Top Ten finalists were chosen by you...

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Convenient Truths: Global Cool Announces Climate Change Film Competition

Posted April 4, 2007 | 04:42 PM (EST)


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The star-studded climate change campaign Global Cool announced a new effort last week that sounds vaguely familiar: a film competition on the topic of climate change. The similarities between GC's and Scene Won's contest, and Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths...

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Convenient Truths: The Top Twenty (Selected by You!)

Posted March 14, 2007 | 02:59 PM (EST)


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We've received and counted your votes for the Treehugger and Seventh Generation Convenient Truths contest, and it's time to announce the videos that will move on to the next round of judging. Here are the top 20 videos you chose (in no...

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Convenient Truths: Last Day to Submit a Video; Voting Starts Tomorrow

Posted February 28, 2007 | 03:24 PM (EST)


shootnvote.jpgOK, procrastinators: we've warned you for weeks that the entry period for Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest would be ending on February 28th. Well, today's the day, and we'll stop accepting submissions of user-created videos at 11pm EST. There are only...

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Convenient Truths: Exactly One Week Left to Enter

Posted February 21, 2007 | 03:34 PM (EST)


ctprocrastinating.JPGIn seven days, the Treehugger and Seventh Generation Convenient Truths contest will stop accepting entries of user-created videos, and voting will begin at Treehugger. In other words, it's crunch time! Don't let the week get by you without shooting a video of your...

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Convenient Truths: Shoot! Only Two Weeks Left to Enter!

Posted February 14, 2007 | 04:05 PM (EST)


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While most people will see February 14th on the calendar, and think "It's Valentine's Day," our first thought this morning was "There are only two weeks left until February 28th!" That's right -- in fourteen days, the entry period for Treehugger and...

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Convenient Truths: Interview with Contest Judge Arianna Huffington

Posted February 7, 2007 | 05:20 PM (EST)


There are only three weeks - a mere twenty-one days - until the entry period for Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest ends. If you were directing a Hollywood blockbuster, this might be a problem. But since we're not looking for professional production value, but rather quality content...

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Convenient Truths: Fighting Climate Change is Cool... So is Making a Video!

Posted January 31, 2007 | 02:18 PM (EST)


Tomorrow is February 1st -- the last month of the entry period for Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths video contest. You've got 28 days... or four weeks, if you prefer... to make a video on your efforts to combat the climate crisis. No need for elaborate production plans,...

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Convenient Truths: Make a Cool Move (and a Cool Video)

Posted January 17, 2007 | 07:10 PM (EST)


The videos continue to roll in as we move towards the Feb. 28th deadline for entering Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest. You can check out the latest entries by scrolling through the posts at the contest site; hopefully, they'll inspire you to create one of your own....

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Convenient Truths: Reduce Your Workplace's Carbon Emissions

Posted January 10, 2007 | 04:13 PM (EST)


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While the New Year has barely begun, the Treehugger and Seventh Generation Convenient Truths video contest is heading into its waning period: we're about half-way through the entry phase, which ends on February 28th. Have you submitted your video yet? Why not? These...

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Convenient Truths: Driving Your Way to Lower Carbon Emissions (and a Great Contest Video)

Posted January 3, 2007 | 04:30 PM (EST)


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The video submissions to Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest continue to roll in, and now you can even take a look at what others treehugging videographers are sending us. Will one of these submissions earn a portion of the...

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Convenient Truths: Resolve to Lower Your Carbon Footprint (and win close to $30,000 in prizes!)

Posted December 27, 2006 | 04:40 PM (EST)


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While Christmas isn't over for everyone, and Kwanzaa is in full swing, many of us are focused on the last big holiday of the season: New Year's Day (and, of course, New Year's Eve). The changing of the year brings a mixed bag...

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Convenient Truths: New IPCC Report Downgrades (But Doesn't Dismiss) Human Climate Impact

Posted December 19, 2006 | 03:59 PM (EST)


truths_treehugger03.jpgMany climate change skeptics are hailing an article from last week's UK Telegraph, which proclaims "UN downgrades man's impact on the climate," as the "smoking gun" which supports their disbelief: Sen. James Inhofe, for instance, claims that the preview of the report (which...

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Convenient Truths: New International Prize Category!

Posted December 13, 2006 | 01:01 PM (EST)


While working to lower your personal carbon footprint is a reward in itself, the winners of Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest will receive considerably more than a warm, fuzzy feeling for their videos: the grand prize winner receives an all expense paid eco-tour for two to an Alaskan...

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Convenient Truths: Reduce Your Transportation Impact

Posted December 5, 2006 | 01:18 PM (EST)


While power plants make the biggest contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, many of us automatically think of our cars when considering our own carbon footprints. So, we fully expect that a sizable number of the videos entered in Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths contest will involve less...

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Convenient Truths: Reduce Your Home Electricity Consumption

Posted November 29, 2006 | 11:47 AM (EST)


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Week two of Treehugger and Seventh Generation's "Convenient Truths" contest begins today, and we hope you've got your storyboards laid out and your video cameras and/or mobile phones warmed up. We're on pins and needles waiting for your videos, as we know many...

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