Or should that be "against climate change?"

Take action at the Blog Action Day site.

Did you know that recycling one beer or soda can saves enough energy to power a lightbulb for several hours or more? The EPA provides a spreadsheet template called iWARM for calculating how much energy you save by recycling household trash such as wire hangers and cereal boxes.

Somebody tweeted this CBS News story about the best places to live to raise children with a love of the outdoors.

I've just added a bunch of new links to sites about getting kids outdoors, and wouldn't you know it, that's the topic for today's post in the Sierra Club's Green Life blog.

The annual Great American Backyard Campout happens June 27th. Have fun!

Mark your calendar and plan to do something for a trail near you. National Trails Day is a day of volunteering to maintain and improve trails – it's outdoor fun, community-spirited, and great exercise! Check the American Hiking Society site to find an event near you.

Today's NY Times Well column reports that "The best way to improve children’s performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.... "The researchers found that a dose of nature worked as well as a dose of medication to improve concentration, or even better."

But we knew that already :-)

Here's something fun and non-traditional (or start a new tradition!) to do for the Christmas holiday - get involved in the annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count. Go to the Audubon site for details.

I really need to get this site upgraded to Drupal 5 or 6, fix the image issues, and start posting more often!

America Recycles Day is a project of the National recycling Coalition. I love their slogan, "It all comes back to you." More info at www.nrc-recycle.org.

The National Parks Conservation Association is lobbying to stop a bill that would permit visitors to national parks to carry firearms even when not hunting in a designated area. This is such a bad idea I don't even know where to begin! The parks staff can barely handle the problems they've already got, thanks to underfunding.

You can find out more and send an email to your representatives here:
NPCA Action Center.