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Comment by Rose Fox on July 29, 2009 at 8:12pm

I loved these videos and can't believe that these kids are so talented and involved in promoting this important global issue. Wow. My sons are great on the computer, so maybe next year I'll convince them to take on this challenge. What a great project. Thanks for posting.

Comment by Nate on July 19, 2009 at 9:16am

The guy has a huge heart and comes across as very sincere and reasonable. I really respect his approach. Thanks again, Sydni.

Comment by Nate on July 19, 2009 at 8:43am

Thanks very much for sharing the No Impact Man blog, Sydni.

Comment by It's just Matt on July 17, 2009 at 3:26pm

Does this movie, No Impact Man, have anything to do with the article I read a few months back where a man stored all his family's trash in the basement for a year?

After my last trash collecting adventure at my local park, I thought, if only every other person would pick up the careless slack of others, we would negate most of the harm done to our own home.
Surely it would be best if everyone used their brain and thought of the consequences of their actions, but I'd settle for every other person being, "The good guy"...We do not need to say we do more for our earth, because you selfish people can already see that.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 16, 2009 at 6:05pm

@Sydni: I just got to watch the No Impact Man trailer. That looks good. I guess since it is HD, it will just be available online?

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 12:11pm

This is a couple of years old, but I just watched it last week on DVD. As you can imagine, it is kind of depressing, but still informative nonetheless. I watched the 2007 DVD, but it looks like they have a second season for 2008.

Planet in Peril

"Planet in Peril" examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources. A worldwide investigation by Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 11:14am

A Literary Treat for Tree Huggers

Trees of all sizes loom large in the world of Linda Underhill, the author of the new book The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests (Oregon State University). Underhill’s writing is clear, crisp literary journalism, moving with an understated grace as she covers specific types of forests, from rainforests to urban woodlands to the threatened hemlocks of Appalachia. Her writing on old-growth forests displays her deft touch:

Compared to tree plantations or woodlands managed for growing a certain kind of timber, the old-growth forest is an incoherent prayer, devout but disorganized, oblivious to any demands but its own growth and decay. This sacred chaos holds the key to natural processes scientists are eager to study, but there are few places left where people have not already altered their rhythms or otherwise destroyed the evidence of creation at work. The valuable timber in old-growth forests, where trees grow hundreds of feet tall and many feet around, has proved irresistible to those who know the price such wood can bring. But an old-growth forest also offers something less easy to price in the marketplace. It invites us to witness the miracle of creation and change the way we look at our own short lives. The tall trees inspire a reverence equal to any of our own great cathedrals, and they belong only to themselves. Chopping down old-growth trees and hauling them away seems akin to scattering the stones of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and selling them off as souvenirs.

I read the book last week while camping for a few days in the Midwest: first under a giant oak in the Mississippi bottomlands, then beneath the canopy of a maple forest, and finally under a small grove of black walnuts. My copy is a bit dog-eared, having been dripped on by rain-soaked maples and showered with pollen-filled oak catkins. But somehow I suspect the author wouldn't mind.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2009 at 10:21am

Tell Secretary Salazar to protect the Grand Canyon and Colorado River
Since 2003, the number of mining claims within five miles of Grand Canyon National Park has increased from 10 to more then 1,100.

Send the email below urging Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to protect this national treasure.

Speak up to end our exposure to rocket fuel chemicals
EPA should protect Americans from perchlorate -- a toxic chemical in rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water in 28 U.S. states and territories and has also been found in powdered infant formula.

Send the email below to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to ask her to set a legally enforceable limit on perchlorate pollution that will help reduce our children's exposure to the chemical.

Tell Energy Star: lower the mercury content in CFLs
On December 2nd, 2008 Energy Star set a maximum mercury standard of 5 mg for CFLs. But the technology is way ahead of the government: U.S. manufacturers voluntarily implemented this mercury level a year prior, and EWG identified 7 bulb lines with significantly less mercury than the rest.

The Energy Star program began in 1982 and is a key tool to drive innovation for low energy products. But the Energy Star program has missed the opportunity to reduce mercury risks from CFLs by setting a low standard for mercury. So low in fact that industry already achieved it.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 25, 2009 at 2:05pm

Pesticide Action Network - North America

Pesticides are hazardous to human health and the environment, undermine local and global food security and threaten agricultural biodiversity.

Yet these pervasive chemicals are aggressively promoted by multinational corporations, government agencies, and other players in this more than $35 billion a year industry.

Our mission: Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN North America, or PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 25, 2009 at 2:03pm

Hillary's choice: clean energy economy or dirtiest oil on earth

Right now, while the United States is working to move into a clean energy economy, a stealth dirty oil mega project is sneaking across the border.

It's up to us to stop it.

The mega project is called the Canadian oil sands, a.k.a. Alberta tar sands, and it's quietly making its way into the U.S., pipeline by pipeline, refinery by refinery, permit by permit.

Now only one person has the power to stop the dirtiest oil project on earth: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

A major piece of this single, massive, Big Oil project -- the Alberta Clipper pipeline -- is up for approval by the U.S. State Department. As if greenhouse gas pollution were not bad enough, it will also result in the wholesale destruction of Canadian boreal forest, a vital carbon sink and global bird nesting grounds.

Secretary Clinton has the power to protect the national interest from more dirty tar sands oil pumped in on pipelines from Canada. She can help secure a clean energy future that will create jobs and reduce the effects of climate change.

Click here to let Secretary Clinton know that we want clean energy jobs, not more dirty oil.

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