Pets for the Environment just sent around a new e-mail with a very disturbing fact about pet food. Read more…

Get rid of something you don’t need, get something you want, and money gets donated to The Sierra Club. Read more…

I am all about not making extra trips to the store, so I wanted to give you a heads up on this. Read more…

If you haven’t signed your name to Fake Plastic Fish’s Brita Filter Take Back petition, get to it ASAP.  She has a phone conference scheduled with Clorox (parent company of Brita) at 8:30 AM Pacific Time.  Get your name on the list.

Hanging your clothes out to dry is a simple and effective way to drastically cut your household energy use. But while hanging your laundry out doesn’t seem like a political act, it can be. In some areas, residents are banned from hanging clean laundry in their very own yard. Read more…

The Environmental Working Group is taking a stand on pet care products, home toxins and the effect they have on people and animals.  Our pets are members of our family, but their food, grooming products and toys aren’t held to the same standards as those labeled for human use.   And our pet’s health could be telling us startling things about our own health.

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Nature Deva is urging us to send letters to your senators and member of Congress and spread the word about The Kid Safe Chemicals Act. Read more…

How outdated and archaic were your textbooks when you were in school?  Since textbooks are so expensive to print and things change fast in social studies and the sciences, I remember my teachers supplementing our textbooks with newspaper articles and mimeographed “ditto” packets.  But it’s one thing to need a supplemental packet on the Berlin Wall coming down because it just happened last week.  It’s another thing to need be reading from a brand spanking new edition of a textbook that denies the existence of climate change. Read more…

(Warning, the video is upsetting).From Yahoo! News:

“Canada’s annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice. Read more…

After reading BraveNewLeaf’s post on the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement, I was thrilled to see that my local mayor was on the list. Read more…