It has been over 135 years since J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day. His simple idea of setting aside a special day for tree planting is now more important than ever. Discover ideas on how to celebrate Arbor Day in your community. Group celebrations. Classroom celebrations. Individual celebrations. Arbor Day Proclamation Group Celebrations Raise the [...]

Going Green Expo, Melbourne, Australia “Going Green’ has become a mainstream journey for all of us and on the path easy steps can be taken to lighten our footprint and shape the sustainable future. With consumer demands for more and more of the latest solutions it’s getting easier and easier to realistically achieve. And you [...]

Article posted on the Australian Museum website: The breakdown of the world’s water content Why is water so precious? Because only a small percentage, 0.08% of the world’s water can be used for domestic use. I found these statistics on the UN water website. 75% of planet earth is covered in water. 97.5% of this [...]

Australian scientists have discovered that whale poo is not only helping ocean plant life to flourish, but also increasing the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2.

The Daily Green, Jeff Yeager will show you easy ways to save money — and the Earth’s resources — by cutting back on things you use every day Don’t use so much! – Use the bathroom the cheapskate way.

The issue of oceanic plastic pollution has become so mainstream that Captain Charles Moore, Pacific Garbage Patch discoverer, has been on Good Morning America, David Letterman (Part 1,Part 2), The Colbert Report and even on Fox Conservative Mike Huckabee’s Show since the beginning of 2010. I can’t find video of the Huckabee interview, BUT it’s on [...]

Earth is often seen as synonymous with land, but our planet is overwhelming dominated by water. Which is why this Earth Day, we’re going blue. Taking care of our oceans and other sources of water is critical to sustaining our planet, but the attention they get often doesn’t reflect that. While 71 percent of the [...]

Tuesday’s “catastrophic” explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, off the coast of Louisiana, has left 11 workers missing and a 5-square-mile slick of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. When the explosion hit, there were 126 people aboard — 115 have been accounted for. The Coast Guard is continuing a search of the surrounding waters. The [...]

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity and an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future. Earth Day 2010 can be a turning [...]