Stuff to do

Tell India to stop blocking a global endosulfan (pesticide) ban here.

Petition the Ohio State School board to dump abstinence-only sex ed here.

Send your Governor a letter demanding safer schools here.

Before you vote, go here for the latest list of the Women's Campaign Forum's 2009 endorsed candidates.

Are you clicking each day?

Visit Change.org to take action on a host of progressive issues.

It's not too late: October is Adopt-a-Shelter pet month.

Save the whales here.

Donate TODAY to help save the wolves of Yellowstone (over 60 have been killed so far...)

Raising a Low Carbon Child

Interested in raising a green child but too lazy to figure out how to do it? This article, written by Elisa Batista for Terrain Magazine, is for you: organic food, the diaper debate, lead in toys, and educating children to "be stewards of the environment."

For a short article, she covers a lot of ground and highlights some of the debates within the green movement. She also gives tips on ways for a parent to put their money where their mouth is. She writes in the introduction,

If you worry that you're a big consumer of resources, consider your kid. For parents committed to reducing their child's carbon footprint—without breaking a sweat or the bank—more help is available than ever before to minimize waste and raise conscientious, ecologically-aware children.

Yeah, I worry. This article helped assuage some of that worry and pointed me in some new directions. You should check it out.

h/t Elisa at MotherTalkers

Save the Whales

Today let's talk about Whales. My neighbor's daughter was just in Japan and went to a commercial fish market. She saw whale meat there along with big signs forbidding photographs. Very interesting. If Japan is indeed only conducting "scientific whale hunts" and then selling the surplus meat, why no photographs?

Below is a link to Greenpeace where you can sign a petition to urge the use of cameras, not harpoons, in conducting research. If the Japanese are serious about whaling research, there are many non-lethal ways they can go about it. However, b.s. statements like this confirm my long-standing belief that they are using "research" as a shield to kill whales:

" Whales eat more fish than humans do and full-scale hunting should resume to protect stocks."

Right.

Click here to send a message that research need not equal death.