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There is an undeniable sense of “connectedness” growing in our world, everyone feeling it must jump to action and help improve the human experience for all.

If you ask the Colonel, he'll tell you that the only way to keep a prisoner in line is to see to it that he won't get up when you rub his face in the dirt. And the only way to keep the guards happy is to let them have their fun. That's the way it's always been down on the farm, because that's just how the Colonel likes it.

Does the environmental movement give consumers more of a choice, or does it take away from their choices by focusing on their negative effect (carbon footprint) in their everyday life?  This article discusses how the environmental movement brings more choices.  What do you think?

From a 30 years old sustainable German company coming to the US market to a Childcare organization in Uganda, more and more options are available to the conscious consumer when shopping.

A group of radiation-poisoned Torontonians stricken and dying on the sidewalk. Rescue teams with Geiger counters, stretchers and gas masks. This was the scene at several locations in downtown Toronto today where Greenpeace activists staged the aftermath of an accident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.

A Minnesota man has set up a remote camera on a Metro area lake. The result is a rare, simply amazing story of Minnesota's state bird.

Tree-Nation is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification. Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land's productivity and re-generate the soil. It is also a is an online community in which you can buy your own tree and become its guardian.

Brighter Planet, a company which offers products that help individuals and companies fight global warming, has teamed with Bank of America to provide customers credit cards that can reduce their carbon footprint and fund

6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead is currently being shipped by rail from Longview, Washington to a hazardous waste disposal site in Idaho.

Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing recently in a tailings pond filled with a witch's brew of oil and toxic sludge at a northern Alberta tar sands mine. Regulators are investigating why Syncrude Canada -- the country's largest tar sands producer -- failed to deploy a system designed to scare off waterfowl.

An article showing how how going green can be simple and money saving. Saving money is another good reason to go green

Peter Singer walks listeners through one of his most provocative philosophical arguments -- that affluent individuals must acknowledge their moral obligation to relieve the unnecessary death and suffering of the poor. With a little reflection, people might find that improving the situation of others constitutes a satisfying alternative to feathering their own nests. Singer concludes, “Living the ethical life is what is going to make life better.”

Britian's carbon footprint continues to grow despite increases in recycling

What Al Gore is doing is something that no other green organization has tried. That is to mainstreamify as our favorite  verbifying Texan would say.

Whilst the power company E.ON make attempts to convince us they're "going green" (by actually asking YOU to go green) what one hand "gives" the other taketh away. Their latest campaign asks football fans to reduce their carbon footprint whilst they plot to belch out 200 times that amount of carbon every year with a new coal-fired power station!