Add to the list: Hold politicians accountable, even those who promise hope,perpetuate war, use partisan division to cloak a corporatist agenda in health care, encourage offshore drilling, and spout hollow rhetoric.

Probably more useful than thinking about trees.

I think the Tea Party activists have already gotten this message. Gotta love it!

With statistics like these, birth control should be free around the world. Thanks for the article Mickey Z.

Make sure to do something, anything, at least EVERY day to make the world a better, healthier, happier, fairer, more sustainable place!

Make saving the world your business, your mission, your hobby, your sport, your calling, your addiction, your therapy, your reason, your legacy, your love.

Polarize the exploitative violence of Wall Street.. Anyone think that the US violence in Iraq and Afghanistan are unrelated to the Housing Bubble?

Don't sleep at the wheel kids, it's going to get nasty unless we prevent the bastards from going the jack boot/rubber truncheon route.

Instead of walking down a street carrying a protest sign, why not engage yourself in some guerrilla gardening and overgrow the government? Protesting accomplishes nothing, the millions that demanded Bush be impeached didn't make it happen.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." JFK

The time for words is passed. This is why we were guaranteed the 2nd amendment (or what's left of it).

Thank you, Mickey.

"Perhaps, you have a responsibility to be informed, to know for yourself. To know the truth. And then, perhaps you must decide with your own conscience and your personal energy and your resources what you should do."
(Isabel Allende)

A good place to start is in our corporate dominated schools. Get rid of the poison that call;s Coca-Cola. Then get all your colleagues on side and say We strike until our schools are de-politicized with this useless and brainles and unremitting testing that everybody is suffering from. We have to give our young people a chance to learn something useful about the world they live. It is dying, it needs our help.We have to refuse to teach in the present circumstances when feeble-brained and morally bankrupt people like Dubbya can design our educational goals. If we all stand together and say NO, this is enough. We are not your slaves any more. We will design the curriculum. Not the corporate sharks, not the Murdoch's, not the Trumps. etc.etc. We want a better world than this one for our kids. Mass strike needed. Very peaceful. All of us shoud buy out and say: You have a problem: we will help you fix it. But right now you have to stop testing and LISTEN.

i agree with you, but i have a problem with your facts. you should provide references in order to back up your numbers. a cursory examination on the web indicates that most of the information you've provided is grossly overestimated. where are you obtaining your numbers from?

as someone who is concerned about the state of our fragile world, i think it's essential that 'we' provide accurate information that's properly referenced in order to build our case. we must be our own harshest skeptics.

What you say all sounds good and to a degree is correct . There is no time like now to be an activist.
10,00 gallons of gas are burned every second. Yes , there is a tremendous amount of waste such as Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi flying on private jets to reach their destinations instead of flying ["1 st" class ] on commercial airlines . After all they are SUPERIOR to the rest of us . You then say that 81TONS OF mercury is emitted into the atmosphere as a result of electric generation , I agree we should go back to candles or kerosene lamps.
Every 2 seconds a human being starves to death , could it be that people in the 3 rd world are totally irresponsible and are not concerned about birth control and responsible behavior ?
Every 46 seconds a woman is raped in America
The facts are that 90 % of these women are WHITE , raped by BLACKS but it would be "politically incorrect" for you to report this. This is F.B.I. statistics .
You say that every day 29,158 children under the age of 5 die from preventable diseases BUT what you do not mention is that the majority of these children are 3 rd world whose parents are TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE . Is this my responsibly ? I work very hard , long hours to try to live a comfortable life style .
You say 200,000 acres of rain forests are destroyed every day . A good example of destruction of forests is in Haiti . They have totally cut down forests so that now the top soil is being washed away .
Will you print my response ? I doubt it , it is of course NOT politically correct . Therefore how can you expect my financial support.