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Take Action, Start a Petition
The Care2 Petition Site makes it a snap to start your own petition. First, identify the target of your protest, then draft out a call-to-action message and decide on your goal number of signatures

Quote of the Day: Carlo Petrini on Taking It Slow
“The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.”

Event of the Day: Farm Aid 2007
Are you going to Farm Aid?

Farm Aid 2007: The Press Conference
While we’re recovering from yesterday’s completely awesome Farm Aid 2007, here are a few clips from the press conference, courtesy of the official Farm Aid blog.

Quote of the Day: Marion Nestle on Advertising to Children
“Adults may be fair game for marketers, but children are not. Children cannot distinguish sales pitches from information unless taught to do so.”

Makool Loves You & Revamped Vintage Ties
Makool Loves You, an indie boutique in Portland, Ore.—the center of the known universe, these days for everything cool and craftlicious—gussies up vintage men’s ties with silk-screened designs, appliqués, and hand embroidery.

Farm Aid 2007: The Recap
New York City was sought out as a venue for the first time in the 22-year history of the annual benefit concert, which was first launched in 1985 in Champaign, Illinois to raise funds for beleaguered family farmers and to spread awareness that American farm families were struggling to make a living.

10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food
Excerpted from 10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food for You and Your Family by Farm Aid.

Melting Ice Cap Triggering Earthquakes, Endangering Wildlife
Just when you think it can’t possibly get any worse—well, it does. The Greenland ice cap is apparently melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes, as pieces of ice several cubic kilometers in size break off.

World’s First Sustainable Tuna Fishery Certified
The San Diego, Calif.-based American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA) is the first sustainable tuna fishery to be officially certified by the Marine Stewardship Council.

Senator Bond Slams Global Warming Bill
This is an oldie but goodie: Global warming could shrink the global economy by 20 percent, according to a 2006 report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern. But taking action now, he says, would cost just 1 percent of the global gross domestic product.

Fall Fashion 07: Loyale Introduces Vegan Faux Fur Jacket
This fall, Loyale introduces the first-ever organic, vegan faux-fur jacket, perfect for bundling yourself in as the mercury level dips and the leaves conspire to ripen into hues of red and gold.

21 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
There’s more to recycling than paper, glass, plastics, and aluminum. Did you know, for instance, that you could send off your used Tyvek envelopes for recycling?

The Luxury Water Taste Test
How much would you spend on a bottle of water? Would plain H2O taste any different when served from a glass, crystal-encrusted bottle?

Quote of the Day: Bill McKibben on McMansions
“The average size of new U.S. homes has more than doubled over the past couple of generations, even as the number of people residing in them has shrunk by nearly a full person.”

Build a Greener Roof
From the musty archives of Ask Metafilter (circa 2006), we dredged up one reader’s request for eco-friendly alternatives to the traditional shingled roof on his dad’s 1940s Cape Cod-style home.

Happy Trails: Libya’s Bold, New Eco-Tourism Plan
A group of consultants and wealthy Libyans are planning to create a carbon-neutral green development zone in Cyrene.

How to Dumpster Dive
Who knew dumpster diving was so involved—that there was an actual art AND science to it? (Just like you need both Siegfried AND Roy.)

How to Conserve Water
Although nearly three-quarters of our planet is covered in water, only 1 to 2 percent can support terrestrial life.

YoNaturals Vending Machines
Face it, we’ve all been there: Standing in front of a vending machine with a fistful of quarters and a growling belly, gazing intently at the racks of nibble-size snack packages, while hemming and hawing over the pros and cons of choosing a packet of 100-calorie Oreos over a bag of Wheat Thins.

Roast Coffee with a Popcorn Popper
If you’re gung ho enough about your morning cuppa, you can roast your own coffee beans for an even fresher, more flavorful brew.

UnTreeHugger: New Pur Water Filters
With our constant urging to stop buying bottled water and to drink from the faucet, instead, we’re loathe to knock a water-filter product. In fact, Pur’s faucet mount has served this writer’s family well for almost five years.

Quote of the Day: Lisa M. Holmes on Organic Junk Food
“Junk food is junk food and why bother to make it organic? But I tend to think there are varying degrees of junk food and I also believe that not all processed food is junk.”

Skin Organic Tees: Queer and Here
The first 100 percent organic clothing line designed for eco-conscious lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender women.

Lili & Oscar: Cutest. Peripherals. Ever.
Meet Lili and Oscar, just about the cutest, funkiest peripherals in the history of the universe. (Excuse us as we commence to squeal like schoolgirls.)

Sugar From Genetically Engineered Beets on Its Way
Look out for genetically modified sugar in a shopping aisle near you by next year. American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar company, has announced it will be sourcing its sugar from genetically engineered sugar beets beginning this year.

Schoolgirl’s “Smog Hog” Cuts Air Pollution
Amy Clucas, a 14-year-old (14!) schoolgirl from Christchurch, New Zealand, is the lead inventor of a device that knocks out air pollution.

YOLO Colorhouse Goes Outside to Play
YOLO Colorhouse takes its environmentally sensitive aesthetic outside with its new line of zero-VOC, Green Seal-certified exterior paint, designed to account for the changes in natural light over the course of a day.

Prismera Designs: Recycled Stainless Steel Jewelery
Prismera Designs’ Floria and Florium collection is a sublime marriage of organic and industrial forms.

Sock Dog Kit: Rescuing Orphan Socks Everywhere
Here’s a concept that is ingenious by virtue of its stark simplicity: Designers Martino Gamper and Sato Hisao will be showing their Sock Dog kit, a remarkably unfussy method of converting orphan socks into toys.

Quote of the Day: Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate-Change Skeptics
“Eventually I came to think there are three major reasons [for climate-change skepticism]. One is catastrophe overload. The end of the world has been going to come several times, and we’re all still here. So it’s: ‘Wake me up when the real end of the world is coming.’”

Expert Says: Make Healthy Fast Food Affordable
Let’s face it, as much as we kvetch about them, fast-food chains and their destructive, polluting ways, aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Parking Spaces Outnumber Cars 3 to 1, Cause Environmental Problems
No doubt about it, Americans like their cars—so it shouldn’t come as a shock that a ton of space is being devoted to parking spaces, whether they’re suburban driveways or sprawling lots around big retailers.

Tuvalu to World: Help!
The tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu is urging the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming, before the island-state sinks beneath the ocean’s lapping waves.

RideAmigos: Car-Sharing in NYC
Ride-sharing gets up close and local for New Yorkers with RideAmigos, a new money- and planet-saving service that launched earlier this month.

In the Shadow of the Moon
In the Shadow of the Moon, producer Ron Howard’s breathtaking latest film, chronicles the history of the Apollo program by bringing together the surviving crew members of every manned Moon mission.

Watch Farm Aid 2007 Online
Didn’t make it to Farm Aid this year? You can catch all 21 sets of the entire Randall’s Island show online.

Fall Fashion 07: Positivitee
Wear your favorite cause on your chest (or hip, as the case may be) with Positivitee’s line of sweatshop-free activist shirts and tees.

Arm & Hammer Dye and Fragrance-Free Detergent
Arm & Hammer has developed a dye- and fragrance-free version of its Essentials Liquid Laundry detergent for people with sensitive skin.

Sierra Nevada Brewery: Beer Powered by the Sun
By the end of this month, the Sierra Nevada Brewery will be almost entirely off the grid. Already, the brewery has four fuel cells operating 70 to 75 percent of the facility’s power, according to Cheri Chastain, the company’s sustainability coordinator.

Quote of the Day: Emily Enderle on Diversity in the Environmental Movement
“Currently, however, there is a lack of diversity and inclusivity in environmental institutions and our movement. This is a systemic problem.”

Aging U.S. Sewers Ready to Burst
Recent flooding in the Midwest has dredged up yet another crisis involving nation’s aging infrastructure: Heavy rains are regularly overwhelming worn-out sewer systems—some cities have sewage pipes that are 50 to 100 years old—resulting in sewage overflow.

Organic Watchdog Group Takes on Aurora Organic Dairy, USDA
Way back in 2005 and 2006, Wisconsin-based organic watchdog group, The Cornucopia Institute, filed complaints that the Platteville, Colo. farm owned by Aurora Organic Dairy, one of the largest organic milk and butter producers, confined thousands of organic cows in factory-like feedlots, instead of grazing them on pasture land as federal organic regulations require.

Blissen’s 2008 Hidden Habitats Calendar
West coast artists Jill Bliss and Saelee Oh have tag-teamed to bring us 13 luscious months of nature’s magical, undiscovered places in all their whimsical, illustrated glory.

Face Off: Our Sunblock & Sunscreen Picks
Of the 700-plus sunscreen products EWG scrutinized, it can recommend only 130. We picked the top 4 (all paraben-free) and slapped them on our skin to judge for ourselves.

Quote of the Day: Amy Jaffe on Alternative Energy
“I really think it has to be a national initiative. There are groups of people who have called from an Apollo-style national initiative in science, [an effort that is going to take decades]. And so it’s really important to start focusing on the science today.”

Fall Fashion 07: Stewart + Brown
While putting together its Fall 2007 collection, Stewart + Brown revisited the sepia-toned romance of early 20th century locomotive travel.

Quote of the Day: Dan Barber on Slow Food “Elitism”
“At the checkout aisle, we’re not paying the real cost of food. Whether you’re an elitist or not, you’re a human being and the real costs of your food are being paid in environmental costs and healthcare costs.”

An Experiment in Subsistence Farming, Brooklyn Style
In this week’s New York Magazine, Manny Howard chronicles his experiment to live off his land as his sole source of food for a month—in a 20×40-foot backyard in suburban Brooklyn.

Quote of the Day: Carl Sagan on the World Population Crisis
“There is a well-documented correlation between poverty and high birthrates. In little countries and big countries, capitalist countries and communist countries, Catholic countries and Moslem countries, Western countries and Eastern countries.”

Sew a Pet Bed
Dog and cat beds—especially eco-friendly ones made of hemp, organic cotton, and recycled PET—can get pricey, costing upwards of at least $60.

Zimbabwe Fights Back Against Invasive Species
Zimbabwe is mad as hell, and it’s not going to take it anymore. From exotic plants, in any case

FedEx Kinko’s, Staples Top Environmental Score Card
Office-supply retailers have been upping their use of recycled paper, as well as their commitment to sustainable logging management and other environmental issues.

Seen in New YorkJersey: Geico’s Mindless Littering Campaign
Famed caveman nemesis and friend to talking reptiles, Geico, blew by the neighborhood this afternoon like a hurricane, planting advertisement hang tags on every fence post, gate, and railing as far as the eye could see.

Fall Fashion 07: Charmoné
Charmoné’s exquisitely luxe animal and sweatshop-free heels, pumps, and boots are bursting at their architectural seams with Old World sophistication and glamor this fall.

NYC Transit To Become More Eco-Friendly
The nation’s largest mass-transit system is looking at ways it could become more environmentally friendly.

Australian Forestry Standard Goes Global
Australia’s $18 billion forestry industry now boasts its own internationally recognized Australian Forestry Standard (AFS), a certification scheme that assures consumers that they are buying wood products from sustainably managed forests and plantations.

Liz Lovely: Baking a Difference
The tastiest triple threats to come out of Vermont, Liz Lovely’s scrumptious baked treats are now organic, fair-trade- and vegan-certified, making the line of cookies the first nationally distributed product of its kind to acquire all three certifications.

UnTreeHugger: Nellie’s Dryer Balls
We’ve been seeing Nellie’s dryer balls and their various knockoffs throwing around their purportedly eco-friendly clout everywhere lately, even on green shopping sites and environmental blogs we know and love.

Fall Fashion 07: Blue Canoe
Blue Canoe is ready for brisk weather with new fall additions to its already expansive collection.

French General’s Natural Hemp Roller Blinds
J’adore French General’s natural hemp roller blinds, which are luminously bright, low-key, and ooh-la-la elegant.

Safeway Sold on Solar
North America’s second-largest supermarket chain has embraced the power of the sun by installing a solar-panel array atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California.

NYC Garbage in a Box
Justin Gignac takes the second of the three Rs to a whole new level of trashiness by plucking garbage off the streets of New York City and them assembling them into signed, sealed, and numbered plastic cubes.

Quote of the Day: Jane Goodall on the Human Animal
“Millions of people do not realize how closely connected we humans are with the rest of the animal kingdom. They do not realize that we ourselves are animals.”

Fall Fashion 07: HER Design
HER Design is dipping heavily into Cradle-to-Cradle-certified wool flannel this fall with three all-new styles that use nickel studs to mimic the appearance of dew.

10 Reuse Solutions for Plastic Bags
Even the most diligent reusable-tote-carrying greenie eventually gets saddled with a couple of plastic bags—that’s how insidious these blights upon the environment are. But we’ve also seen some brain-rattlingly creative ways some people have been squeezing out a second, third, or fourth use out of their plastic bags.

Happy Trails: Green Travel Blogs Pick Their Top Eco Destinations
The Guardian ambushed five eco-travel bloggers to find out what their top green destinations were.

Baseball Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
Hey batter, batter, batter: These bracelets, earrings, and pendants are truly in a league of their own.

Tully’s Switches Over to Compostable Coffee Cups
Tully’s Coffee is now the first major coffee retailer to use a fully renewable and compostable paper cup for its hot beverages.

For Peat’s Sake, a Renewable Replacement
Organix, an organic-residuals-management company, is now shipping its first commercial peat-moss replacement to customers in the region.

Quote of the Day: Juliet B. Schor on the Overspent American
“American consumers are often not conscious of being motivated by social status and are far more likely to attribute such motives to others than to themselves.”

An Evening with Wangari Maathai in NYC, Sept. 25
Wednesday, September 25, 7pm; American Museum of Natural History

To Do Tomorrow: PARK(ing) Day
Get ready to get your sod on for PARK(ing) Day, Friday, Sept. 21 (that’s tomorrow!), an event that first began when Rebar, a San Francisco collective, transformed a metered parking spot into a park almost two years ago.

In the Kitchen with Alice Waters
What would it be like to have Alice Waters come over to cook lunch for you? Well, we would probably have a full-body asthma attack.

Jane Goodall Endorses Kenmore’s New High-Efficiency Appliances
The curtain has risen over Sear’s Kenmore Elite dishwasher with Ultra Wash^HE technology, the SteamCare Washer and Dryer lines, along with a somewhat incongruous—at first blush, anyway—new alliance with the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots Program.

Seven Easy Pieces for Fall: Women
A new wind is starting to blow and you can almost smell change crackle in the air, feel the crunch of leaves beneath your soles. We pulled together seven versatile, mix-and-match basics that will keep the chill at bay, while treading gently on the planet we live on.

Grow Plastic Posies
If anyone can make plastics bags come up practically smelling—or at least looking— like peonies, it’d be green DIY guru Danny Seo.

Quote of the Day: Laure Waridel on the Coffee Crisis
“The current world prices for coffee—set in New York and London—have fallen to their lowest ever level in real terms.”

Create an Online Press Kit for Your Business
While Kenmore’s new line of high-efficiency appliances wowed us yesterday, the company’s press kit left us underwhelmed, even if it did come in a reusable hemp/cotton tote.

Massachusetts School Taps into Geothermal
The Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts is getting geothermal wells installed on campus.

Quote of the Day: Peter Singer on Speciesism
“The argument, in essence, is that we have, over centuries of history, expanded the circle of beings whom we regard as morally significant.”

Caught on Camera: An Urban Wind Turbine
A remodeled corner house in San Francisco’s Mission District sports a Skystream 3.7, built by Altira-backed Southwest Wind Power.

Eco-Friendly Yoga Mats for Kids
Pint-size (or petite-adult) yogis and yoginis can now tote around yoga mats scaled down to their vertically challenged measurements.

Farm with Alice Greenfingers
Get a taste of the farming life, without actually getting your hands mucky, with Alice Greenfingers, a PC game you can download from Yahoo Games.