Says Michael Pollan, journalist and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, as well as his newest book, In Defense of food. These seven words are his guidelines for a healthy diet, but, as he said, his publisher was looking for 60,000 words not a post card.
Fortunately, it is a lot more complicated than that. At the [...]

Or you can walk, run, jog, scooter, skateboard, take transit, unicycle, or skip to school (as opposed to skip school). Encourage your friends and family to do the same, substituting ‘work’ for ’school’ where necessary. The official Bike to Work Week is from May 11 to the 17th, but if you start now you’ll make [...]

Especially one who is not making people happy, not contributing to world peace, and not truly trying to protect the environment. If they are doing a good job, encourage it. In Elizabeth May’s “How To Be An Activist ” pamphlet, here are four of the ten getting started points, the ones which apply to this [...]

Email your friends, talk with your family, if people know what’s going on they at lest have an opportunity to do something about it. Just like it says in the first action on the Get Involved page, Inspire Others: “If you inspire one person, you have doubled your positive impact on the planet. If you [...]

Your dish-and-clothes-washing water goes somewhere! In fact, it sometimes goes into a drinking water source for for both humans and wildlife which is often also a whole wildlife habitat. Sometimes it is filtered and directly re-circulated into the tapwater system. So watch what you put in it.
Also, any soaps/cleaners you use in your home will [...]

Have you ever wondered what to do if you find a sick, injured or orphaned wild animal? You can learn now at:
http://www.wildliferescue.ca/todo.shtml
It’s great to be able to help wild animals. And I’m sure the animals think it’s great too!

We Are What We do is a “New movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world.” I bought their book, Change the World for Ten Bucks, and it is really great. I am going to start a series of posts for their actions and for ones I come up with. You [...]

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