by Bill McKibben

If we think globally, to use the most common of green clichés, we should act locally. In the fight against global warming, though, the practical acts are for the most part symbolic, while the symbolic acts might just save the day. Say you have a certain amount of time and money with which to make change — call it x, since that is what we mathematicians call things. The trick is to increase that x by multiplication, not addition. The trick is to take that 5 percent of people who really care and make them count for far more than 5 percent. And the trick to that is democracy...

A Gas Free Date

 by Michael Bloch

Livestock, Red Meat and the Environment
I've never been much of one for extremist vegan propaganda, but I've been making some changes to my diet based on increasing evidence that the production of meat, or should I say our consumption levels, is a major environmental and humanitarian issue.

Live in the city? You can still participate fully in a sustainable lifestyle! Watch the Garden Girl to find out how!

by Karyn Strickler

If your doctor told you in 1990 that someone you love had breast cancer and that 80 percent of her breast would have to be removed immediately in order to save her life -- you would not wait until 2025 and remove only 25 percent of the cancer. Nor would you remove 80 percent of the cancer, but wait until 2050. There is scientific consensus that we are in the midst of a worldwide emergency with catastrophic climate change -- Our survival on this planet may depend on a swift, dramatic response...

Award Winning Animation on Global Warming

by Karyn Strickler

It's my turn. I want a bailout. Not hundreds of billions of dollars to the auto industry for making an inefficient, dirty product that Americans have stopped buying. Not trillions of dollars to the banks that have made bad loans, creating an explosive housing bubble, leading to the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. I want to be bailed out of the fossil fuel economy.  America must kick the fossil fuel habit for our environment, our economy, our national security, our health, our children -- and forever...