Things Are Good

First of all, happy Earth Day!
Here’s a neat idea for Canadians: have manufactures pay for waste management of their products. To our European (and some other) readers, this is not a new or crazy idea, but here in Canada this concept is revolutionary. For Earth day The Toronto Star has examined how Ontario can get [...]

Google Earth is a neat program, but what people can use it for is far more interesting than the software itself. Google has gone ahead and modified their program to now include information about the Earth’s ocean to make people aware of how the oceans are connected to our lives.
“I’ve been struggling my whole life [...]

New Scientist has a great article for people who are at all confused, misinformed, ignorant, or othwerise boggled by all this talk about climate change. They clarify many things that people may not know much about. It’s worth a read if you don’t think you know enough about climate change, or if you just want [...]

There two articles out in the mainstream press today that focus on companies that have realized that saving the environment is good for their bottom line.
Publishers have discovered that there is a demand for green coverage:
“Buoyed by the breakaway success of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film documentary of Al Gore’s environmental lecture, publishers like The [...]

Happy Earth Day everyone! Here’s some Earth Day related links for you:
Earth Day Network
Earth Day from Wikipedia
Countdown Your Carbon
…and if you’re in Toronto come out to the street celebration and parade!

There are so many ways to save the planet that people get overwhelmed, for those of you who are lost in the goodness please keep reading. HowStuffWorks has posted a basic list of ten things you can do to save the planet.
The list is rather simple as it includes things like recycling (who doesn’t?) and [...]