Sami Grover
Sami Grover is a writer, and Creative Director at The Change Creation, a brand creation agency that works with entities who make the world better, fairer or truer. Clients include Larry’s Beans, Burt's Bees, Canaan Fair Trade and Jada Pinkett Smith/Overbrook Entertainment.
He writes on a broad range of topics including sustainable business, the collaborative economy and clean energy. He also has an unhealthy obsession with human waste and what we should do with it.
He once vowed never to fly again, then he fell in love with someone on the other side of the Atlantic. He once considered never procreating, he now has two kids.
He believes that adaptability is a prerequisite for sustainability.
Latest Stories from Sami Grover
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Rob Hopkins on The Power of Just Doing Stuff
The founder of the Transition Movment is out with another book. This time, he takes a global look at how grassroots community efforts may provide a blueprint for systemic, cultural change.
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Food miles are a distraction. Local food is not.
Food miles are a simple concept to get. But for truly sustainable food, we must engage with the details.
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How a new class of pesticides transformed the agrochemical landscape for bees
In just twenty years, neonicotinoid pesticides became the most widely used insecticides in the world. Evidence is mounting that this rise has been a disaster for bees.
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5 local and regional efforts to save the bees
From the European Union to individual city councils, regional efforts to protect bees have proliferated. Here are some of our favorites.
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Forest activists gear up to fight burning trees for electricity
"Our forests are not fuel" says The Dogwood Alliance. But can they get energy companies to listen?
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7 No-Cost Ways to Grow More Food From Your Garden
Starting a vegetable garden can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. Here are some no-cost ways to boost yields in your garden. Some will even save you money.
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How Rob Hopkins Gave Up on Giving Up On Flying
When rob Hopkins watched "An Inconvenient Truth", he vowed never to fly again. When he watched "Chasing Ice", he decided to get back on a plane. Here's why.
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5 ways that urine can help save humanity
From ancient urine helping to track climate change to space-age toilets that monitor our health, pee may be coming to our rescue.
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Tobacco Plants Pulled From Window Boxes, Under Threat of Fines
Governmental overreach or sensible enforcement of the rules? A business owner is accused of "promoting tobacco and smoking to children".
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Why Environmental "Hypocrisy" Is Irrelevant and Inevitable
Accusations of hypocrisy against environmentalists because they too use fossil fuels are a dangerous and counterproductive distraction.
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Lobster Boat Successfully Blockades 40,000 Ton Coal Shipment
Yesterday, two activists moored their tiny lobster boat infront of a giant coal tanker, successfully halting the delivery of 40,000 tons of central Appalachian coal.
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How the coconut tree provides food, fuel, roofing, rope and more for Sri Lankan farmers
Waste not, want not. Coconut farmers know a thing or two about the efficient use of resources.
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Six ways that music festivals can reduce their impact
From the substantial to the symbolic, music festivals around the world are finding ways to get a little greener.
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Europe votes for 2-year ban on pesticides suspected in bee deaths
Campaigners rejoice as Europe implements a temporary ban on the use of neonicotinoids on crops favored by bees.
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USDA whistleblowers claim poultry plant chemicals a serious health hazard
Chemicals used to clean chicken carcasses are causing serious health impacts for plant workers and USDA inspectors, claim two whistleblowers.
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What does seasonal eating look like where you live?
TreeHugger writers dish the dirt on what's seasonal in their neck of the woods right now.
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Greenpeace Campaign Calls for Energized, "Badass" Politicians to Fight CO2
An animated campaign video from Greenpeace delivers gobs of computerized ultra-violence, but for a cause.
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Is your state criminalizing farm cruelty whistleblowers?
12 states are currently considering legislation to outlaw or impede undercover citizen investigations of animal cruelty. Is yours on the list?
