- JONATHAN PANG
Every day, every person in North America generates about 4.5 pounds of garbage. 56% of this ends up in landfills.
We are the most wasteful society on earth, throwing out 4,000,000 plastic containers every hour. Every little baby generates about one ton of trash every year and on top of that we throw out [...]

- Gita Saraydarian
We cannot change the world for the better if we limit ourselves only to the tangible things that people do and do not do. Our emotions, thoughts, and choices that we make have a huge impact on the environment as a whole.
All of life is one. Our environment can be the biggest we [...]

- Bill Knell
Growing up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s was a pleasurable experience. Venturing into New York City, especially Manhattan, was not. The smell of car, truck and bus exhaust combined with a number of other foul vapors to produce a pollution mix that almost seemed toxic. If you were [...]

-Michael Bloch
Sometimes heating your home with wood can be more economical and environmentally friendly than the alternatives; particularly if you have easy access to wood supplies.
While wood fires do generate carbon dioxide and particulate matter, other fossil fuels can generate more greenhouse gases when issues such as extraction and transportation are taken into account. Wood [...]

Worth Watching:
The Story of Stuff
A 20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne Leonard.  Exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues.  View online or downlaod for free.
http://www.thestoryofstuff.com
Garbage Warrior
The epic story of a  radical Earthship eco architect Michale Reynolds, and his fight to build off the grid self-sufficient communities using [...]

-Billings Farnsworth
Many people are looking at ways to save money and gas mileage and one of the first things that comes to mind is to purchase a smaller vehicle.
A hybrid car is typically designed to be smaller and better on gas mileage because of its size. But a true hybrid is actually a car that [...]

- Mike Nickerson
Continuing with civilization requires more than fine tuning the present system. It requires metamorphosis.
Climate change, peak oil and all the other unfolding crises associated with pollution and resource depletion are all symptoms of one problem. There has been a fundamental change in the relationship between people and the Earth. We no longer [...]

SCIENCE MATTERS
-David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
If we want to protect an endangered animal such as the woodland caribou, we have to do more than just study the animal in isolation. We must understand how it interacts with its total environment, including its habitat and other animals, as well as humans. We must then try to [...]

The Too-Often Ignored (at Great Peril) Approach to Carbon Reduction
- Peter Russell, M.A., D.C.S., F.S.P.
Reducing future carbon emissions is essential. However, the economic, political, and social challenges involved make it unlikely that this will be sufficient or in time to avoid catastrophe. We must also give equal attention to capturing the carbon already released and [...]

SCIENCE MATTERS
- David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola
The most powerful force shaping our lives is science, especially when it’s applied by medicine, the military and corporations. All too often, new technologies become part of our lives without much forethought as to their full impacts on our society, let alone that of the non-human environment. Just think [...]

The most dangerous aspect of global warming.
- Peter Russell

Global Warming is bad enough. Over the last hundred years, average global temperatures have increased by 0.75°C, one third of that rise occurring in the last twenty years. The 2007 report by The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that, by 2090, temperatures will have risen between [...]