Green Surfers is a group of surfers and environmental groups working together to preserve our oceans and beaches. Green Surfers supports an earth friendly lifestyle through conservation, activism research, and education.

Green Surfers are aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, they vow to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. They are determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in their thinking and in their way of life.

New Articles for October 29, 2007

Great Ideas to Get your Kids on a Permanent Earth Friendly Kick

The importance of teaching our children to be environmentally conscientious cannot be over emphasized. If children learn and know how to respect and appreciate nature and what this beautiful planet holds for them, then the legacy of responsibility will continue.

Helpful Hints on Teaching Your Kids About the Environment

Our hopes are on our children. To be able to leave them some legacy of Mother Nature and the environment, we need to educate them about what an important task we have on hand. Raising their awareness about environmental issues and their impact on global warming will help them to understand the urgency and need to act now.

What is an Ecosexual?

Ecosexual is a new term used by many to refer to a person so dedicated to their commitment of improving the environment that it controls their intimate relationships, and sometimes their friendships as well. An ecosexual chooses to drive an environmentally friendly hybrid car and only eats organic foods. With this type of stereotype, it is no wonder that their beliefs are often unaccepted by mainstream society, even with the modern green movements already in place.

Pair of Republicans Go Green

Harry Smith has an exclusive interview with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who have teamed up to fight for limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Maroon 5 Go Green With Their First Headlining Arena Tour

Maroon 5 announced their first headlining arena tour and the band has teamed with Global Cool to ensure they are Carbon Neutral.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Work 1

New Belgium Brewing Company serves up an ideal place to work.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Work 2

Recycled materials make for good building materials.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Pray 1

Kids dump a trash can to see how much recyclable garbage they are tossing.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Pray 2

The cycle of life - using cremated remains to generate life in the ocean.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Create 1

Taking a jumbo-jet polluter and turning it into a sustainable architectural piece.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Create 2

Artists push environmental issues to provoke discourse.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Sports 1

Skier and activist Allison Gammet takes to the hills.

Big Ideas For A Small Planet: Sports 2

Build a better board: environmentally friendly skateboards.

Do You Live in a Green Environment or is Your Environment Transparent?

People today are becoming more concern about the environment and go green environmental services than the last century. Over the century, our environment has gone from green to transparent. Transparent meaning chemical use more and more taking the natural product and turning it to transparent with so many chemicals a person reading the label would hardly find the natural product.

Green Unrest

There was this moment, when I felt overwhelmed all of a sudden, by the immensity of the problem, the amount of information coming at me, and a myriad of feelings, and thoughts. It's hitting me. Again, This feeling of being overwhelmed by the mass of information coming at me with Green facts and comments on not so green facts. It seems that everyone's got things to say, to report, an initiative they are working on, participating in, a cool article they found, that somebody else wrote.

Why Not Go Green?

This article will help you with saving money year after year on you energy bill. Go green!

Green Tips

The media are full of tips, on how to become a greener person. Do green tips work? Are people actually using them?

The 11th Hour Time Capsule

Experts from our film record a message for people to watch 100 years from now. More at www.11thhouraction.com.

Tim Carmichael's Time Capsule

Message to 2100: These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Tim Carmichael is Senior Director of Policy. He previously served as President and CEO of CCA for 8 years. Before serving as president, Tim was the policy director, representing the Coalition at conferences, symposiums and in negotiations with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the California Air Resources Board, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tim has worked for the Coalition since November 1995. Tim has a wide range of environmental and transportation policy experience. From 1992-1995, he worked for an environmental consulting firm, educating the public on a variety of environmental issues including recycling, water pollution, advanced transportation systems and air pollution reduction strategies. Tim has also worked on public and school education programs that included: educating the media on urban run-off pollution; the link between air quality and our transportation systems; and the air quality and economic benefits of Zero-Emission Vehicles. From 1989-1992, Tim worked in the aerospace industry.

Thom Hartmann's Time Capsule

Message to 2100: These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Thom Hartmann is an award winning, bestselling author, international lecturer, teacher, radio talk show host, and psychotherapist. He's the creator of the Hunter in a Farmer's World metaphor to describe the experience of children and adults with ADHD, and the first to propose that ADHD is a neurological difference, which may have adaptive value. His books have been written about in Time magazine, he’s been on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, and been a guest on numerous radio and TV Shows, including NPR’s All Things Considered, CNN and BBC. His book The Prophet’s Way led to an invitation to a private audience with Pope John Paul II in 1998. His book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight led to a September, 1999 invitation to spend a week with His Holiness The Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India. A former journalist, editor and executive director of a residential treatment facility for severely disturbed and abused children, he lives in Vermont with his wife Louise.

Theo Colborn's Time Capsule

Message to 2100: These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst, is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesvillle, and President of TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Paonia, Colorado. Her 1988 research on the state of the environment of the Great Lakes revealed that persistent, man-made chemicals were being transferred from top predator females to their offspring and undermining the construction and programming of their youngsters’ organs before they were born. In light of this evidence, in 1991 she convened 21 international scientists from 17 different disciplines to share their research relevant to trans-generational health impacts. During that meeting, the term endocrine disruption was coined; and a book followed in 1992; Chemically Induced Alterations in Sexual and Functional Development: The Wildlife/Human Connection, a collection of technical manuscripts provided by those who attended the session. The information from this volume and numerous subsequent scientific publications on the result of low-dose and/or ambient exposure effects of endocrine disruptors was popularized in her 1996 book, Our Stolen Future, co-authored with Dianne Dumanoski and J. Peterson Myers now published in eighteen languages. Dr. Colborn’s work has prompted the enactment of new laws around the world and redirected the research of academicians, governments, and the private sector. Dr. Colborn has served on numerous advisory panels, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the Ecosystem Health Committee of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, the Science Management Committee of the Toxic Substances Research Initiative of Canada, the U.S. EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee, and the EPA Endocrine Disruption Methods and Validation Subcommittee. She has published and lectured extensively on the consequences of prenatal exposure to synthetic chemicals by the developing embryo and fetus in wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans. In 1985, Dr. Colborn received a Fellowship from the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. From there she joined the Conservation Foundation in 1987 to provide scientific guidance for the 1990 book, Great Lakes, Great Legacy?, in collaboration with the Institute for Research and Public Policy, Ottawa, Canada at the request of the Canada/US International Joint Commission. She held a Chair for three years, starting in 1990, with the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and given a three-year Pew Fellows Award in 1993. Over the years she established and directed the Wildlife and Contaminants Program at World Wildlife Fund US. Among her awards are the: Chatham College Rachel Carson Award, Norwegian International Rachel Carson Prize, United Nations Environment Program Women Leadership for the Environment Award, International Blue Planet Prize, Society of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry Rachel Carson Award, Center for Science in the Public Interest Rachel Carson Award, Beyond Pesticides Dragonfly Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment. Dr. Colborn earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an MA in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy. In her retirement she has set up a non-profit, TEDX, to carry on the work of providing objective, technical information about endocrine disruption and related low-exposure hazards for academicians, policy makers, government employees, community-based and health support groups, public health authorities, physicians, the media, and individuals.

Ray Anderson's Time Capsule

Message to 2100: These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Since the days after his graduation from the Georgia Institute of Technology as an industrial engineer, Ray Anderson has applied his entrepreneurial spirit to building one of the world's largest interior furnishings companies. After founding Interface in 1973, Ray and his company revolutionized the commercial floorcovering industry by producing America's first free-lay carpet tiles. Now, Ray has embarked on a mission to be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits -- by 2020 -- and in doing so, to become restorative through the power of influence. He's leading a worldwide effort to pioneer the processes of sustainable development. Ray learned the carpet and textile businesses through 14-plus years in various positions at Deering-Milliken and Callaway Mills, and in 1973, set about founding a company to adapt European technology to produce free-lay carpet tiles in America. He developed a partnership with Britain's Carpets International Plc. that year and set up operations in LaGrange, Georgia. Ten years later, Interface took over Carpets International. Today, Interface is the world leader in the design, production and sales of modular carpet, and a leading producer of broadloom carpet and commercial fabrics. The entrepreneurial drive and competitive spirit that in 1973 drove Ray to found Interface was the same catalyst for an environmental awakening that has once again transformed an industry. Today, Interface stands at the forefront of a new industrial revolution. The company has reduced its environmental footprint significantly, redesigning processes and products, pioneering new technologies and reducing or eliminating waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy. From corporate offices in Atlanta, Ray serves as Founder and Chairman of a globally positioned company whose core business is still modular soft-surfaced floorcoverings. Interface has diversified and globalized its businesses, with sales in more than 100 countries and manufacturing facilities on four continents. In addition to carpet tiles and broadloom carpet marketed under several brands, Interface also manufactures commercial panel and upholstery fabrics. While Interface is noted in its industry for its commitment to high quality design and innovation, the company is recognized as a leader in the green business movement. Inspired chiefly by Paul Hawken's treatise, The Ecology of Commerce, Ray heightened the company's awareness and led changes in technology in an effort to move toward being environmentally sustainable. Admittedly, Interface is not there yet; however, the company is developing processes and technologies to get it there. What this means, primarily, is learning to harness solar, wind, biomass and other forms of green energy and providing raw material needs by harvesting and recycling carpet and other petrochemical products, while eliminating waste and harmful emissions from its operations. Ray believes that if Interface, a petro-intensive company, can get it right, it will never have to take another drop of oil from the earth. The philosophy guiding Ray's passion for this cause is simply that it is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing, too. Because the commitment Interface has made is so unique, the community has embraced the company and lauded its efforts. Today, Ray is recognized as one of the world's most environmentally progressive leaders on sustainable commerce, having served as co-chairman of the President's Council on Sustainable Development during the Clinton administration; being recognized by Mikhail Gorbachev with a Millennium Award from Global Green in September 1996; receiving in 1996 the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region and in 1997 as the Georgia Conservancy's Conservationist of the Year. Ray's honors also include the prestigious George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development, presented in 2001; the SAM-SPG Sustainability Leadership Award of 2001; the U.S. Green Building Council's Inaugural Leadership Award, 2002; and the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award for Corporate Leadership, 2002. Ray was named a Senior Fellow and Leading Voice for Green and Sustainable Design by the Design Futures Council in 2003, and also received the IIDA Star Award. In 2004, he was honored with the National Ethics Advocate Award from The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. In 2005 he received the Harvard Business School Atlanta Alumni Club's Community Leadership Award, as well as a Corporate Ally Award from Possible Woman Enterprises. Ray serves on the boards of The Natural Step, USA; The Georgia Conservancy; Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper; Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; Rocky Mountain Institute; the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, and is an honorary advisor to the President of Peking University. He holds honorary doctorates from Northland College (public service), LaGrange College (business), N.C. State University (humane letters) and University of Southern Maine (humane letters).

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran's Time Capsule

Message to 2100. These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist. He joined the magazine's staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. He opened its first office in that region in Mexico City, and served as bureau chief until 1997. As the newspaper's Global Environment and Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now includes global health, pharmaceuticals and innovation. Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the selection committee for CFR's annual Arthur Ross Book Award. He teaches at NYU's Stern Business School, and is a regular commentator onMarketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal and at other media outlets. He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, POWER TO THE PEOPLE . Harvard's John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available. Vijay's next book, ZOOM: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, co-authored withEconomist colleague Iain Carson, will be published in autumn 2007. Vijay's book and magazine articles have received various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He now lives in New York.

Tezezemoc's Time Capsule

Message to 2100. These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Former elected representative of the South Central Farmers and spokesperson for the now destroyed South Central Farm. Formally located at 41st and Alameda in South Los Angeles, the South Central Farm was considered the largest urban community farm in the United States. Mayor Bradley originally mitigated the land to the community after the 1992 Rodney King riots. During a period of 14 years the surrounding communities benefited by having access to fresh and healthy produce not available in local or major produce markets. Additionally, the farm provided access to many Meso-American traditional plants that are used for medicinal purposes as well as safe space for children and community events. Some 350 families cultivated the land until Sheriff Deputies evicted the farmers and their supporters and a local developer leveled the land with bulldozers in the Fall of 2006.

Peter Warshall's Time Capsule

Message to 2100. These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Trained as both a biologist and anthropologist, Peter has taken a big-picture view of the complexity of societal/cultural change. While others may work as scientists or activists or artists, Peter has tried Territories Natural history, flora and fauna, watershed ecology. Balancing conservation of natural resources with economic development, especially for water, rangelands, forests, and wildlife. Harmonizing placed-based (local) governance with places-based and global governance and economic networks. Extensive work in environmental impact analysis, conflict resolution, and consensus building with native American, Third World, and corporate communities to bridge these realms as scientist/activist/essayist. He works on all socioeconomic levels and with highly diverse peoples and ecosystems, believing that important beneficial change can come from many unexpected and untapped human sources. He enjoys public service and served in elected office for eight years. Peter has consulted with corporations on improving their environmental practices and long-term visions of what kind of world they want to create. He has a special sympathy toward producers of commodities (loggers, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, miners) as they are the link between the materials flows of our economy and the natural world. His teachers have included endangered squirrels, oil-slicked cormorants, rhesus monkeys and gorillas. He believes music and poetics are central needs of human happiness.

Nancy Jack Todd's Time Capsule

Message to 2100. These videos are answers in response to a question about what you would like to say to people living 100 years from now. Nancy Jack Todd is Vice President of Ocean Arks International and editor of its journal Annals of Earth; co-founder with John Todd of the New Alchemy Institute, which has been at the forefront of work in appropriate-scaletechnology; author and co-author of many works, including Bio-shelters, Ocean Arks and City Farming. Not only is Nancy Todd well acquainted with the technologies that would lead to a sustainable society in the new millennium, but she is versed in the cultural thinking that underlies and encourages the change in lifestyle necessary to apply those technologies. Trained as a dancer, she is also a perceptive writer and editor. She contributed all the introductory essays to People, Land, and Community: Collected E. F. Schumacher Society Lectures (Yale University Press). She and John Todd have received the Bioneers Award, the Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh Award the Daimler/Chrysler award for design, the United Nations (FUNEP) Award, and the Swiss Threshold Award for contributions to human knowledge.

The Dangers of Pesticides

DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) is one pesticide that has been unquestionably labeled hazardous to our health. It has been linked to cancer and is actually banned from all use in America now.

Lemon and Lemon Peel as a Safe Alternative to Pesticides

Pests in the home can be incredible nuisances and difficult to get rid of when children, pets or sensitivities are involved. The best way to deal in such a case is to adopt herbal home pest control products and measures. Most of these when used according to directions and a bit of common sense, are designed and tested for use in homes and living spaces.

Organic Pesticides for Safer Living

Read about recipes for natural living by using organic pesticides.

ECO BIZ: Green MBA

Greening tomorrows CEO's. Dominican University of California's Green MBA program is an accredited, on site graduate program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Graduates receive a Masters of Business Administration in Sustainable Enterprise. This is a full-time, two-year, 4-semester program in which we seek solutions that promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice. We use a dynamic, project-oriented learning approach to integrate the development of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills with the building of critical thinking and leadership capacities. To encourage this transformation in our students' capabilities, we are building a close-knit community of teachers and learners woven into a supportive network of businesses, academic and activist leaders.

ECO BIZ: Green Laundry

Solar powered Laundromat.

ECO BIZ: Green Mountain Coffee

Making the #2 most traded commodity green, from soup to chock full of nuts. In the beautiful mountains of Vermont, where time is measured more by change of seasons than the tick of a clock, and where a faster way of doing things is not always a better way, you'll find the home of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. At Green Mountain Coffee, we are dedicated to providing the richest aroma and flavor, for the highest quality coffee experience. We travel the globe to purchase the finest coffees, batch roast them to peak flavor, and vacuum package them fresh for your enjoyment.

ECO BIZ: Ed Kerschner

Green investing with Ed Kerschner. Mr. Kerschner is the Chief Investment Officer for Citigroup/Smith Barney. Mr. Kerschner, 50, has more than 30 years of experience in the securities industry. Mr. Kerschner is the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee for Citigroup Smith Barney. He began his investment career in 1974 with Cowen & Co., and then joined PaineWebber in 1982 as Chief Investment Strategist and Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee. Upon the 2000 UBS AG acquisition of PaineWebber Incorporated through 2003, Mr. Kerschner was the Chief Global Strategist for UBS Investment Research. Since 2001, Mr. Kerschner has been Adjunct Professor of Finance at New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Live Earth: Lessons to be Learned

How can we make this world poverty-free and environment-friendly. Lessons have to be learned from Live8 and Live Earth.

Global Craziness

As usual, the best intentions of the global warming alarmists fly in the face of reality.

Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand at Live Earth

Sky's Derek Tedder caught up with the the two cheekiest chaps at Live Earth , Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand.

Ricky Gervais and Chris Rock at Live Earth

Ricky Gervais introduces Spinal Tap and an interview with Chris Rock.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant at Live Earth 2007

The video's audio does cut out a little bit in the first clip of Stephen Merchant, but the rest of the video works perfectly. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant Live Earth 2007.

Al Gore Reads the Live Earth Pledge

Sign the Live Earth Pledge at www.LiveEarth.org. Watch the Live Earth Concerts on July 7 at: www.LiveEarth.MSN.com Answer the Call!

Spinal Tap Reunites for Live Earth To Fight Global Warming

Marty DiBergi recruits Nigel, David and Derek to reunite to play Live Earth on July 7, 2007 at Wembley Stadium in London. This is a new film directed by Rob Reiner which premiered on April 25, 2007 at the Opening Night of the Tribeca Film Festival. This is a 4 minute clip of a 15 minute film that can be viewed in its entirety at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.

Madonna Hey You (Official Live Earth Video)

Take a look at the official video for Hey You, the song pop icon Madonna has created for Live Earth. Madonna does not show up on the video, instead images from around the globe show a variety of emotions and ideas, all related in one way or another, to the environment.

Live Earth Performer Chris Cornell Stressed About Green Issues

With Live Earth about to take place around the world on July 7th, Chris Cornell admits he's been stressed out on Green issues for a long time.

Live Earth: Red Hot Chili Peppers Perform 3 Shows In 24 Hours

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to play 3 shows in 24 hours in 3 countries, all in the name of bringing attention to our worsening Global Climate Crisis.

Live Earth: Fall Out Boy Ready or Not

Fall Out Boy are joining Taking Back Sunday, AFI, John Mayer, and KT Tunstall in trying to get their generation involved in Live Earth's Green Campaign.

Al Gore Talks Live Earth

Al Gore, the lightning rod behind Live Earth, talked about the need for a concert and says it's only the beginning.

Live Earth: Ex-Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Geldof Criticism

With several key contributors to Live 8 bashing Live Earth, including Live 8 founder Bob Geldof, Roger Waters gives his thoughts on the tiff.

Six Good Reasons for Going Organic

I will freely admit that I devour every article that I can lay my hands on which deals with anything related to gardening. Everyone has something, which they are passionate about in life, mine is my garden. My friends tell me that I am obsessed, and maybe I am. I think my partner is obsessed, in his case it's golf, but as yet I haven't heard any of his friends telling him that he is obsessed.

What are GE and GMO Crops?

Most have at least heard about GE and GMO crops. Ever wonder if they're going to be approved and planted?

What Does Organic Food Certification Really Mean?

The term organic is being tossed around quite a bit lately, and you'll soon be seeing a big jump in the number of organic choices when you visit your local Safeway or Wal-Mart store. That's because the demand for organic produce, milk, and meat has been steadily increasing, to the point where the giant retail chains have begun to take the trend seriously. In turn, there will be a growing concern over the certification process as factory-style farms begin to muscle their way into the organic food market as a result of increased demand.

ECO BIZ: Blue Spruce, Cow Power

Methane fuel created from cows' non-dairy output powers a farm and beyond. Eco Biz is presented by Citi Smith Barney.

ECO BIZ: Interface Carpet

One CEO changes the way he does business when he realizes the harm he's doing to the environment.

ECO BIZ: Great Eastern Ecology

See how a building consultant that helps restore the natural habitat of cities makes this venture profitable.

ECO BIZ: Timberland

The Timberland CEO talks about how his company pioneered profitable green business practices.

ECO BIZ: Ben and Jerry's

The Greenest Ice Cream around.

ECO BIZ: Cameron Cole

Environmental consultants help companies walk the green walk.

ECO BIZ: ABC Carpet and Home

Home decor can be beautiful and green.

ECO BIZ: E-Waste

What do you do with your old electronics?

Animal Rights and Welfare

Before you get involved in an animal organization, make sure you understand everything they believe in.

The History of Respect for Animals

Today we see animal rights activists everywhere. From Green Peace attempting to hunt down a Japanese Whaling Vessel to eco-terrorists letting all the animals escape from a Country Animal Shelter and Pound and then vandalizing it. These of course are extreme and yet humans have quite a lot of empathy for animals and nature as well.

No Primate Is Illegal

Did you know that non-humans are supposed to have human rights? Talk about losing the language, but that is exactly what some are trying to establish. The test subject for redefining human is a 26-year old chimpanzee named Hiasl which certain animal rights activists are trying to get legally declared a person.

Preventing Animal Abuse and Neglect-An Introduction

Learn about the difference between animal abuse, intentional neglect and unintentional neglect. Tips on how to identify animal abuse and neglect are included along with information about how to report abuse and neglect.

Stop Prairie Dog Poisoning!

The U.S. Forest Service today released its draft plan that may drastically increase the poisoning of prairie dog colonies this fall throughout the Buffalo Gap and Fort Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota and the Oglala National Grassland in Nebraska. Widespread poisoning could kill tens of thousands of prairie dogs, which would jeopardize the continued recovery of the critically imperiled black-footed ferret, the most endangered mammal in North America. The plan would also harm other wildlife that depend on prairie dogs for food or prairie dog burrows for shelter, including rare species such as swift foxes, burrowing owls and ferruginous hawks.

Sundance Channel presents THE GREEN

Hosts Majora Carter and Simran Sethi introduce Sundance Channel's THE GREEN.

Robert Redford presents The Green

Robert Redford and Sundance Channel present The Green.

Robert Redford on THE GREEN

Robert Redford discusses THE GREEN

The Green Online with Simran Sethi: Create

Simran talks forest and furniture.

Look at These Vegetarian Numbers, The Enormous Amount of Resources

Non-vegetarians and vegetarians are starting to ask the question of, -is it really doing any good being a vegetarian? If you are thinking about becoming a vegetarian for the ethical reasons, but you are having a hard time making up your mind, then here are some numbers for you to take in.

Importance of Being Vegetarian

Our earth is bursting with people and stress has been put on food resources. It is getting really difficult to maintain the quality of food in this fast changing world. Hence, more and more people are becoming vegetarians as a solution for their health problems.

Vegetarians at the BBQ

Once viewed as an eccentric oddity, vegetarians have moved from the fringe to the mainstream. However, the truth is, all too often the meatless menu option isn't vegetarian at all...it's just a menu item, minus the meat. Unfortunately, a white hoagie bun topped with iceberg lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, and mustard is about as unappealing to the vegetarian as it is to the carnivore counterpart.

Go Vegetarian

Some reasons on why vegetarianism is better.

30 Reasons to Go VEG

Every year, billions of animals (including fish) are killed for food in the United States alone. PETA's video Chew on This sheds light on animal suffering and highlights many of the other reasons to choose a compassionate, plant-based diet. Vegetarianism not only spares billions of animals from horrific suffering, it also spares your waistline.

THE GREEN Online with Simran Sethi: Fuel

Simran encapsulates the over consumption of oil with clips from the documentary A CRUDE AWAKENING - THE OIL CRASH.

THE GREEN Online with Simran Sethi: Build

Simran Sethi previews upcoming topics that will air on Sundance Channel's THE GREEN.

THE GREEN Online with Simran Sethi: Cities

Take a fresh look at your waste and how we can make better use of it.

The Green Online with Simran Sethi: Eat

Eating local, how many miles does your food travel from farm to fork?

THE GREEN Online with Simran Sethi: Wear

Eco wear is a beautiful kind of activism.

The Green Online with Simran Sethi: Eco-terrorism

Eco-terrorism? Real threat or red herring?

Green and Environmental Awareness Campaigns Online

Learn how to best leverage the power of the Internet of your environmental organization's cause. A website can not only get information out, but bring information in and help organize your efforts, all while letting like-minded people know about your cause.

Bring Out the Tree Hugger in You by Becoming Environmentally Responsible

If you've ever heard the phrase tree hugger used to describe someone, you may think it is a negative term. Used negatively, the term can be used to describe someone who seems to be too concerned with the environment. Hippies can also be called tree huggers and many people are not starting to associate tree huggers and tree hugging with negative meanings. The opposite is true; tree hugger is actually a positive term for someone who is interested in or participates in environmentalism and conservation. These people are known for doing all they can to protect the environment and encouraging people not to waste our natural resources. If you want to get in touch with your inner tree hugger, take the steps below to improve your own environment and get involved in your community.

Environmentalism

Many of you know that I think that whenever zealously is involved any argument or position is jeopardized, regardless of the kernels of truth on which the initial position was built. The Great Global Warming Scandal is a perfect example of the swing of the proverbial pendulum from the Earth-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket Environmentalist perspective to the more Bush-ian hey-how-could-humans-effect-anything-on-such-a-global-scale.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: Going Green, or Else

This short asks - do you really need to drive 20 blocks to get a pint of ice cream? Vanilla at that. Some people would say no...as well a few others...Going green maybe be not only smarter but forced upon you if you're not careful.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: How Much Can a Polar Bear?

In this short, due to global warming the polar icecaps are melting, placing pressure on polar bear families in the arctic circle. Here we see how their changing environment impacts directly in the home.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: Wasted

In this short, Milbert experiences a surplus environmental disasters resulting in a lesson that can only be learned cartoon characters.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: Breakfast

Meet Greg, Christian and their favorite crappy diner; then find out why it's not easy to convince your friends to go to environmental pep-rallies.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: Yung Yeti

In this short, Yung Yeti and his friend Mr. Buck, the raccoon live in the forest and go about their lives being conscious of their environment.

Sundance Channel GREENIMATION: Meet the Banes

In the not-so-distant past, a man named Sterling married a woman named Daphne and conceived an offspring named Carson. Together, they are the most repulsive, insufferable, downright detestable family on Earth. If they are not stopped soon, they will surely destroy our fragile planet. Meet the Banes.

From Finning to Shark Fin Soup

In Eastern Asia, there is a culinary delicacy that is known to be popular, especially at weddings and important business dinners; it is the shark fin soup. The problems related to sharks are related to a cruel fishing technique called finning. Is such a pricey soup worth the carnage?

Here are Some Types of Sharks that are Virtually Harmless to People

Thanks to the movie Jaws, sharks ended up with a bad reputation as man-eaters, which could not be further from the truth. Let's study some of these virtually harmless types of sharks.

Are Sharks Predators or Preys of Humans? Maybe It Has Something to Do With the Shark Anatomy!

According to Hollywood, humans are preys to sharks. Reality says that for each person victim of a shark attack, huge numbers of sharks die because of humans. Who is the real predator? Who is the prey?

Shame on You: Shark Finning

Video created by OceaNEnvironment about the senseless killing of sharks for their fins. Special message for Alibab.com - who serves as a e-commerce platform for the trade of shark fins.

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, examines escalating threats to shark population including habitat destruction of reef ecosystems and over fishing that are causing Pacific reef shark populations to plummet. This film examines the most brutal assault threatening shark abundance: that of finning sharks for shark fin soup. Compelling interviews with leading marine biologists and conservationists reveal these driving forces behind the drastic reduction of many shark populations.

Shark Finning on the Frontier

In late 2006, I was invited with photographer Justin Ebert to what may one of the last truly wild places on the planet: Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Located off off the western tip of Papua New Guinea, Raja Ampat covers an area of roughly 7,000 square kilometers and is loaded with forested limestone islands, mangrove ringed lagoons, bays and reefs. It is the reefs in particular that make this place so special. Raja Ampat is believed to have the richest marine biodiversity of any place on the planet.

You are Contributing to Global Warming and Miserable Doing It

Are you trudging along with the polluting mainstream? Seek a healthier and happier lifestyle instead and improve your environment as well. Do you want road rage or a new age?

There's No Doubt About It: Humans are the Cause of Global Warming

What do YOU think is the major cause of global warming? Or should I say - WHO? Global warming is affecting our world and the people and creatures who live on it in unimaginable ways. What should we, as humans who are able to think and reason, do in order to stop global warming from doing its worst?

Will Bushanol Help Global Warming?

Will Bush's emphasis on ethanol really help or is this just another way to help the oil companies?

Christian Right and Global Warming Debate

Many of the top Christian TV Evangelists has joined the Global Warming Fear Motif. Some have asked what do the Christian Right TV Evangelists have to gain by doing this? Well some say they will have more access to the major media news outlets. Previously they could only get on TV with pro-Conservative news shows. By joining the environmental, Al Gore Global Warming debate they can have it all.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

This short program, produced and shown in England, destroys the arguments put forward by Al Gore and the human caused Global Warming activists.

Global Warming: Point of No Return?

James Lovelock says Global Warming is now at point of no return. Other top climate scientists are more hopeful but say we only have less than 10 years before it's irreversible and time is running out. Bush Administrations been accused of asking top climate scientists at NASA to STOP speaking out about the climate crisis and of altering scientific journals reporting on the phenomenon. We all need to speak up NOW or the Human Race will join the MILLIONS of other Species that will be extinct by 2050 from Global Warming.

Lou Dobbs: Global Warming

Lou Dobbs discusses Global Warming with 3 guests. Lou wants to get going with solutions to fix this problem, and stop the false debate.