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After listening this week to President Bush plead with mother earth for 17 more years to pollute, author Michael Pollan takes up an issue that has been gnawing at me for a few weeks: When it comes to changing your lifestyle to combat global warming, Why bother?
In one essay, Pollan not only effectively shows why [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After having a good laugh, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection admitted Tuesday that their new “we campaign” was actually a massive April Fools’ Day joke.
“To think that humans can solve global warming is preposterous,” Gore told reporters Tuesday.
Gore was joined by fellow environmentalist Newt Gingrich, who also couldn’t get [...]

So I’ve read it’s blog action day, which is kinda like a Live Earth Concert for Mac users.
Unlike people who think they’re changing the world by watching a concert, here are a few of the things I’ve done over the past two years to reduce my impact on the world:

I’m a vegetarian (Read more: [...]

Sure, they sell a lot of stuff no one needs, but IKEA has decided to start charging for plastic bags. And that’s a good thing for our planet.
The average American family of four throws away about 1,500 single-use polyethylene bags, which do not degrade for around 1,000 years, IKEA said. Less than 1 percent are [...]

After purchasing one item at the grocery store tonight — a pre-mixed salad bag — the cashier plopped it into a plastic bag before I could stop her. My plastic bag needed a bag.
When I told her I didn’t need the bag, she said “fine,” and began to throw the blue sack away. Being [...]

Check out Is God Green?, a wonderful look at evangelical Christians who are coming to the consensus that global warming is against the Bible, against Christ. Here are some video clips.
Richard Cizik, of the National Association of Evangelicals, is deserving of special praise. He is a brave man willing to challenge the Republican Party and [...]

Jeff Goodell mines the rich history of coal in the United States to unearth the good it has brought and the destruction it has wrought in Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future
Much like the authors of The End of Oil and Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Goodell paints an alarming picture of [...]

Shockingly, a Democrat is trying to do something worthwhile in the House.
Rep. Henry Waxman is pushing the Safe Climate bill that would freeze America’s carbon emissions in 2010 at 2009 levels, and follow with an accelerating reduction thereafter. On its face, it seems a reachable, sane approach to reverse the coming destruction of climate [...]

I’m impressed by the Wind Blows viral video contest but not surprised by the lack of feedback.
The idea of the contest — submit a video showing why wind power is good — had a chance of generating buzz because it has a passionate audience of environmental-friendly types who are plugged in (That is, they might [...]

Just stumbled upon a digg for the environmental crowd: hugg.com.
The site features nutty stories, such as “Company makes paper out of sheep poop.” Gotta click on that.
Thanks to an add on the hugg.com page, I also got sucked into gotoreviews.com and the mostly-clever: windblows.us video contest that reminds us that wind power blows, oil [...]