Images via Fashion's Night Out

Fashion's Night Out is an evening dedicated to revitalizing the fashion industry: consumers are encouraged to come out and shop at the hundreds (if not thousands) of participating stores around the globe, this Friday, September 10.

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

photo via 350.org

Big props to David Letterman for bringing on Bill McKibben earlier this week to talk to Letterman's 4 million nightly viewers about global climate change and Bill's 350.org project. 350.org has a savvy campaign to get the White House to put solar panels back on the roof after Ronald Reagen had them taken off in the 80s.

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

Photo: Insider Hobart

This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge.

I was late, I was late, for a most important date.

(All images: SRD Change 2010)

For the past seven years 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 it's on again.

'Portable Pelt' 2009 by Tara Baoth Mooney, one of the curators of CCANW's Fashion Footprints exhibition.

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.

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 th