photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine... More »

Music mogul and animal activist Russell Simmons has given his endorsement to Bold Native – a narrative film about the underground Animal Liberation Front. Earlier this summer, Ecorazzi reported that Simmons was planning to attend the premiere in New York City, and although we couldn’t make it, we heard it... More »

Photo: Banksy.co.uk Poor Dolphin World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months . Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action…. Read the... More »

Over on one of our favorite sites FunnyOrDie.com , famous humanitarian actor Sean Penn appeared on an episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis to discuss Haiti…well kinda. If you haven’t yet seen the brilliant series, Between Two Ferns is an unscripted public access style show where Galifianakis... More »

Image credit: CosmicRevolutionKS When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute , he suggested it was important that we all “tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art,... More »

National Geographic Channel is building up the hype for their new mini-series event Great Migrations — and this new extended trailer does a much better job than previous sneak peeks at getting us excited. Unlike LIFE or Planet Earth that seemed to censor much of the violent parts of the wild kingdom, migrations... More »

Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country’s already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills. Fortunately for everyone (except the minks) the problem could solve... More »

Photo via National Geographic We’ve got a new regular slideshow here on TreeHugger: The Week in Animal Photos. Catch a glimpse of what the animal kingdom has been up to this week, from a tiger cub disguised as a stuffed tiger rescued from an international smuggling deal to a newly discovered pea-sized frog perched... More »

Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that... More »

photo: Dave Parker via flickr In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming, a new study in the online peer-reviewed journal PLoS One comes out solidly in support of the benefits of organic. Self-described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers... More »