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Treehugger.com
Treehugger.com is a weblog created in 2004 to promote sustainability for the masses. Roughly 15 new posts are added daily, encouraging readers to incorporate green practices into their daily lives, but also providing the options for people to choose what makes sense. Treehugger.com is run virtually, with a staff of 18 writers from around the world and additional guest writers. The founder, Graham Hill, a designer for Exception Lab, Inc. manages and backs Treehugger.com. In total, there are 76 categories devoted to design, fashion, products, events, media and all things green. Treehugger also provides information for readers on products that may be doing more harm than good, or at least have no environmental benefit though they claim to.

A short summary of each new article is updated on the main page. When readers click on the link they are taken to an individual article page where they get more information on the topic. In addition, readers are also provided with a link to the actual media article or website that generated the story. Readers are allowed to submit comments and respond to each other based on the post topic. Treehugger also encourages reader involvement through surveys, contests and through submission of green events in their particular city. Readers can submit tips to the website.

Since launching Treehugger in 2004, several new ventures have taken off. TreehuggerTV, which reports on the latest green happenings around the US. Hugg.com allows readers to generate the news and vote on the most popular posts.

History
Timeline? Quotes from Graham?

Categories
There are 76 categories of articles on Treehugger.com. About; accessories; almosts; alternative energy; architecture; audio video; aviation; bathroom; bedroom; best of hugg.com; bikes; biopolymer; books; botanical; cars; celebrities; chairs; chemical sensitivity; clothing; contests; cool but ugly; designers; dining room; eco-myths; eco-tips; eco-travel; electronics; environews; events; fashion; flooring; food; footwear; gifts; gifts under $100; gifts under $15; gifts under $25; gifts under $50; health & beauty; how-to; interiors; kids; kitchen; less is more; lighting; living room; materials; news; outdoors; prefab; product service system; prototypes; q&a; random; recycled; science; shelving; solar; sports gear; storage; store; surveys; tables; take action; technology; textiles; TH city series; TH exclusives; the TH interview; the TH week; top fives; transportation; un-Treehugger; wallcoverings; water; workspace.

TreehuggerTV
Begun on XXXX, TreehuggerTV is a weekly videoblog produced by Treehugger.com. Some of the videos are produced in house by TreehuggerTV, but guest videographers are also allowed to submit videos. TreehuggerTV has also partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to host sustainability themed videos created by NRDC. Videos can also be viewed through itunes podcast.

Hugg.com
Hugg.com is an off-shoot of Treehugger.com, where readers can register and then submit articles or videos for posting. The site was originally based off of a similar site, Digg.com. Readers are also allowed to vote “Hugg” articles that they find particularly interesting or note-worthy. Articles that receive high “Hugg” ratings are sometimes further researched and used on Treehugger.com. Articles are displayed both as recent “front page” posts and posts that have received the highest Hugg ratings. Posts that with the highest number of Huggs are posted on the main page.

Awards
Bloggies – Nominated for the 2005 for Best Topical Blog and in 2006 for Blog of the Year and Best Topical Blog. Feedster – Awarded Second Place in 2006 for Feed of the Year by Feedster.com Yahoo! – Selected as Pick of the Day in 2004, shortly after launch FlavorPill – Selected as one of the Top Ten Blogs for 2005 WebbyAwards – Nominated in 2006 for one of the Awards in the “Blog – Cultural/Personal Category”

Press
Time, Summer 2006 Vanity Fair, May 2006 Wired, May 2006 The Independent, December 26, 2006 El Pais Newspaper, November 2005 Dazed & Confused, July 2005 Flaunt Magazine, May 2005 ReadyMade Magazine, April 2005
 * link to these articles?