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We're Melting ... (AlterNet) - forces that are destroying the Earth and the people who can save it "have arrived together at this crossroads in history."

Grease Is The Word (Outsider) - An eco-crusader in the crunchy mountain hamlet of Telluride, Colorado, is out to show the world that cars run cleaner and greener on fuel made from leftover fast-food oil.

How Many Miles To The Gallon? (CBS) - Today, our cars are getting even lower mileage than they did 22 years ago.

Can The World Go On As It Is? (BBC) - Put your recycling out, fit energy efficient bulbs, use public transport - you think you're helping to save the planet. But could all our efforts be futile?

Beware The Life Cycle Of 'Recycled' (AlterNet) - At what point are the benefits of recycling offset by the environmental costs of long-distance transport?

There Goes The Neighborhood (CSM) - America's treatment of its oceans is under scrutiny as groups propose ways to renew overtaxed waters.

Pollution Of The People (AlterNet) - The chemicals that industry claims are extensively tested and safe for us turn out to be neither, and are rapidly accumulating in our bodies.

Do We Need Another Sun Day? (AlterNet) - In 1978, people united worldwide in celebration of solar energy. We now have the political will and technical knowledge to make the solar revolution last.

Fragmented Worldview Disconnects Us From Nature (ENN) - To live sustainably within the limits of the ecosystems that support us, we have to put the pieces back together.

The Planet Needs Our Best Efforts Plumbers Without Borders and other Earth-saving (SFGate) - It's time to acknowledge that unless folks change their ways, the whole planet will soon become a life-threatening area.

Is That A Daisy Growing On Your Roof? (CSMonitor) - More people are finding that 'ecoroofs' help both their property and the environment blossom.

How Sustainable Is Our Development? (ENN) - Unfortunately, when it comes to the natural world, where we find "resources" galore, too often potential profit is reason enough to begin exploiting them without regard to inventory or blueprint.

Fill 'er Up With Krispy Kreme (AlterNet) - Could biodiesel be a burn-your-veggies answer to global warming, pollution and energy independence?

Make Your Spring Cleaning Green (AlterNet) - The spring equinox is fast approaching, and soon we can all throw open our windows and let the March breezes blow winter away.

With Every Breath You Take (OnEarth) - As asthma becomes a national epidemic, people want to know: Is air pollution making us sick?

Polluted Bodies (CommonDreams) - No one wants his or her body to be another pollution site. Still, lobbyists for the chemical industry resist further regulation. "As a result," says Martin, "we're living in a toxic stew and they are, quite literally, getting away with murder."

They Paved Paradise (ZMag) - It's simply expected that singers will sing about cars, writers will write about cars, actors will act in cars, and practically everyone will become a motorist. Even radicals and dissidents regularly drive to their protests and rallies (some environmental activists do so).

Mother Nature's Little Helpers (Time) - A guru of alternative medicine makes his case for herbs and fatty acids.

Poisoning Frogs: Are People Next? (ENN) - Despite new findings that link the pesticide atrazine to sexual mutations in frogs, the EPA is considering an increase for atrazine standards in drinking water.

Drugging Our Water (EMag) - We flush it, then we drink it.

Reconnections: Urban Runoff (HopeDance) - Did you ever consider how much concrete there is in your city and how it prevents water to seep into the earth naturally?

Earth, Air, Fire And Water (Independent) - There's a new culprit for global warming: it's soot, a by-product of burning wood or diesel. But is it responsible for freak weather events across the globe?

Imagine A World Without Toxic Chemicals (HopeDance) - James Smallwood reports on the activities of the pioneering Pesticide Awareness and Alternative Coalition and all the various activities that have spawned from it.

Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug (AlterNet) - Prescription medicines, excess hormones, and antibiotics are accumulating in our water supply, and the dangers they pose are rapidly coming to light.

Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, And Melting Ice (Tom Paine) - The three warmest years on record have come in the last five years.

Going With The Wind (CSM) - For decades, wind power has been an underrated, and underperforming, energy source. Improved technology may change all that.

Oil On Troubled Water (Independent UK) - We might not realise, but we use oil from palm trees almost every day - and at potentially great risk to both the environment and indigenous peoples

Shop To Save The Planet (AlterNet) - From two-by-fours to fish fillets, "environmentally friendly" labels are popping up everywhere for holiday shoppers. Here�s what some of the green claims really mean.

Rural America's New Problem Of Handling Sprawl (CSMonitor) - In their quest to get away from it all, Americans are gobbling up land faster than their population numbers are growing.

Washed Up (Grist) - The dirty secrets about laundry.

Proud, Patriotic & Green (CSMonitor) -Conserving oil and resources has become the new mantra of flag-waving Americans.

Stewards Of The Earth (EMag) - The religious mission to protect the environment is growing rapidly to encompass the world�s major faiths.

Bioneers (AlterNet) - Help and hope for the Planet.

Watt by Watt (Utne) - Saving energy is fun when you do it yourself.

Farmer's Fight Global Warming With No-Till Farming (AlterNet) - No-till farming methods can decrease carbon dioxide emissions and boost nutrients in the soil.

A Crossroad for Wilderness (Mother Jones) - Tongass National Forest are home to bald eagles, sea otters, and other wildlife whose habitat would be fragmented by new road building.

California Recycles a Profitable Idea (CSMonitor) - Ever thought of owning a floor made from old telephone poles? How about a flowerpot manufactured from used plastic milk jugs? Dinnerware crafted from glass bottles?

Green Havens (E Magazine) - Urban community gardens fight to save their space.

Sustainable Development: R.I.P (Corp Watch) - Sustainable Development is dead. It's demise came, ironically, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

How Green Is Your Roof? (Natural Life) - In cities across North America this past summer, grass, veggies, trees and flowers sprung up on both residential and commercial rooftops.

Don't Be Fooled: America's Ten Worst Greenwashers (AlterNet) - An annual report exposes the environmental lies corporations tell to earn your "green" shopping dollar.

What kills 2.2 million people a year? Dirty drinking water. Now swallow this... (Independent News) - Water heads the list of the six biggest environmental problems facing the world.

Actor Woody Harrelson Does 'Sustainable Development' (Earth Times) - "I am just a guy who cares like hell about this planet and about changing our collision course of self- destruction."

An Assessment: From Stockholm to Jo'burg (Earth Times) - Before the action starts--and we must hope there is action--it might be of interest to retrace the road as one person traveled it.

Letter From Johannesburg (ENN) - The dire prediction that the United States intends to sabotage the conference seems to be coming true.

Whose To Blame For Mad Deer? (Progressive) - Chronic Wasting Disease is killing tens of thousands of deer across the Midwest, and is more likely to affect humans than Mad Cow Disease.

Strangers In The Seas (Independent News) - This may be exciting as a spectacle, says Steve Connor, but it suggests that something sinister is going on.

The Climes, They Are A-Changin' (Village Voice) - The indisputable science of global warming.

A Global Picture of Death & Destruction (Independent News) - Atlas produced by the United Nations demonstrates how mankind is changing the world and driving thousands of species to extinction.

A World Awash In Hormones (AlterNet) - The recent scandal over hormone therapy is just a scratch on the surface compared to the synthetic hormones found in our water supply, food, and consumer goods.

Western States: A Grasshopper Invasion (Tom Paine) - This summer's grasshopper invasion west of the Mississippi isn't a Biblical plague. It's the result of climate changes and other chemical-caused imbalances in farm country ecosystems.

Stop the Corporate Takeover of our Water (AlterNet) - The greater villains are loose in our world today, literally thirsting to take things that are yours and mine.

How to Make Your Property Wildlife Friendly (ENN) - However large or small, any backyard or garden space can be made more friendly to wildlife.

Remember the Planet (This Is Leeds) - It seemed like at last there had at last been a culture change � saving the world had gone mainstream.

Worldwatch Charts Earth's Vital Signs (Tom Paine) - Consumers pressure businesses to go green.

Human Impact (ENN) - How we trigger global warming, and what each individual can do about it.

Mobile Chernobyl (Tom Paine) - MapScience.org tracks nuclear waste through Everytown, USA

Green is Good (Bergen) - "The whole 'green' movement talked about reuse, reduce, and recycle, but nobody was doing the first two.''

Waiting To Fight Climate Change is Not An Option (ENN) - It's not a pretty picture.

In Debt to the Earth, and We Can't Repay (Independent News) - Humanity is overdrawn at the Earth's resource bank and is going further into debt every year, according to research.

Choosing A Better Future (One World) - Consumers pressure businesses to go green

Catalog for Life On Earth (Csmonitor) - By the middle of this century, many biologists estimate, human activities � from urban sprawl and deforestation to overfishing � will have erased up to 30 percent of the species inhabiting the planet.

Pave the Lawn, Spoil the Neighborhood? (CSMonitor) - Cities in California rise up to rescue neighborhood green spaces from asphalt's onward march.

The Sky is Indeed Falling Bush Says, Get Used to It (AlterNett) - The world is becoming hotter and the air you breathe can give you cancer, according to two new EPA studies. But, the Bush administration says, don't worry about it.

It's Not So Slick When Oil Ends Up in the Sea (AlterNet) - About 29 million gallons of petroleum enters the oceans off North America each year.

PCB's All Over Again (Prospect) - Introducing an industrial chemical that's everywhere -- and that you've probably never heard of.

How One Creature Drives So Many Species to Extinction (Independent News) -Some scientists believe the "sixth wave" of mass extinction is between 1,000 and 10,000 times greater than the normal "background" rate at which species are lost naturally.

Heavy Metal Harm (E Magazine ) - The fight against highly toxic mercury in the environment has just begun.

A Clear and Present Danger (Earth Island) - Fluoride toxicity has been linked to bone disease, infant mortality and brain damage. And the line between safety and danger, purity and poison is a thin one.

Technotopia and the Death of Nature (Earth Island Journal) - Nature and technology are not just evolving: They are competing and combining with one another. Ultimately there could be only one winner.

Silence of the Labs (On Earth) - Is a cozy alliance between Big Oil and Big Medicine is keeping things quiet.

Just Make It Legal (Tom Paine) - Changing the definition of one word in the Clean Water Act makes all the difference to this country's waterways.

Artic Meltdown (Common Dreams) -The native elders have no explanation. Scientists are perplexed as well. The icy realm of the Eskimo � the tundra and ice of Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland � has started to thaw

The Mixed Bag of Community Recycling (CSMonitor) - Although recycling rates are slowly inching up, Americans toss out about twice as much trash as they did 30 years ago. Happy Earth Day? Not.

Say 'No' to Over Packaging (CSMonitor) - One-third of American garbage is packaging materials, according to the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington.

Stolen Skies" The Chemtrail Mystery (Earth Island Journal) - Chemtrail activity has been reported in at least 14 allied nations including Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden and the United States.

The Chemical Generation (Red Pepper) - Food, cosmetics, domestic cleaners and even children toys contain hormone-disrupting chemicals.

Fighting for America's Energy Independence (Nation) - Renewables are coming on strong, despite fat subsidies for oil and coal.

Responsibility is Green (Common Dreams) - Now more than ever, we need corporate responsibility for waste and public policy that promotes sustainable domestic solutions

Water Inc. (Alternet) - The commodification of the world's water means that who owns water and how much they are able to charge for it will become the question of the century.

The Smog We Breath ( Working For Change) - If you're screw up the air, the land and the water, you can't undo it.

Getting Out of Gridlock (Alternet) - Thanks to America's powerful highway lobby, we're stuck in more traffic than ever before. How can we make getting around a whole lot saner?

Chlorine, Cancer, and Heart Disease (Water Warning) - "Cancer risk among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain chlorine.�

Goodbye Cruel World (Common Dreams) - A report by top US Scientists on climate change suggests that catastrophe could be imminent.

When the Army Owns the Weather (Alternet) - Evidence of the Pentagon's interest in manipulating mother nature abounds. How come the public knows nothing about it?

Battle Looms Over a Noah's Ark Law (CSMonitor) - Scientists, lawmakers, and advocates are set to wrangle over the Endangered Species Act in a clash of jobs vs. biological diversity.

The Sky is Not Falling (PNS) - At home and abroad, important new steps on environment

Pesticide Wars (Tom Paine) - When agriculture and public health collide

Getting On Our Nerves (ENN) - The same herbicides and pesticides many people trust enough to spray on their gardens and crops have been increasingly linked to the onset of Parkinson�s Disease.

Corrupt Compost (Seattle Times) - Contamination of compost by the herbicide clopyralid was killing plants at community gardens outside Spokane.

Winterless Olympics? (Common Dreams) - But for all the hoopla and speed and elegance, we also are both aware that the future of the Winter Games is in danger, because winter itself is in danger.

Olympics: Gold, silver, or bronze -- But not green. (Alternet) - The Winter Games are prone to wreaking havoc on the environment.

Why the public does not hear the truth about global warming (Tom Paine) - TomPaine.com's Jennifer Bauduy recently spoke with him about global warming and why it is minimized in the press.

Recycling's Down in the Dumps (Seattle Times) - Some people are lazy. Some wonder if it's worth it.

Rural Cow Mutilations Baffle Authorities (Alternet) -"The most scary part is the unknowing. When you don't know any answers, that's what's weird."

Land of the Oil Free? (Grist) - Redefining the 'American Way of Life.

So you are an environmentalist; Why are you still eating meat? (Alternet) - Evidence shows a meat-based diet is bad for the environment, aggravates global hunger, brutalizes animals and compromises health. So why aren't more environmentalists vegetarians?

Decimating tree disease spreads to Redwoods (Alternet) - The organism responsible for killing tens of thousands of oaks in California has been found among redwood trees.

Monsanto Hid Decades of Pollution (Truth Out) - PCBs drenched Ala. town, but no one was Ever told..

The Pesticide Wars (Working for Change) - Most people assume public health officials are working diligently to solve these mysterious afflictions.

World Takes Small Steps Towards Greener Future (Pacific News) - September 11 and the war in Afghanistan have pushed environmental concerns out of most people's minds and off the front pages -- at least for a while.

Buying Clean Air (CBS) - Can we really trade the air we breathe?

Blowin' in the Wind (American Prospect) - Offshore wind energy in the United States has a potential so large that, it could potentially replace the 6 million barrels of oil imported into the U.S. every day.

Free drugs from your faucet (Salon) - How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?

Endangered Species: Now or Never (Alternet) - ...an estimated 80 to 300 species have gone extinct while awaiting ESA protection

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