It’s always been maybe a bit too easy to appeal to people emotionally when arguing to save endangered species, or protect diverse ecosystems. Tug on some heartstrings by showing footage of polar bear cubs at play, or a desert sunrise, and you’ve got people hooked. For a moment…

This short film doesn’t provide groundbreaking information, but it does something many others have failed to do: Offers a succinct, simplified explanation of our consumer-driven economy, the interconnectedness of the entire process, and our place in it.

We all find it easy to call for cuts to various programs, as long as they’re not OUR programs. This is how we’re still stuck with subsidies for gas and oil companies, ethanol subsidies and grants to makers of worsted wool products. It’s either less spending, or more taxes, people. We can’t have it both ways, at least not for long.

Consumers, being informed and discerning as we are, can quickly tell true green credibility from a field of green posers, right? Maybe not. According to a recent study of Green Perception vs Reality at the New Scientist, we’re actually hopelessly shallow and easily swayed.

Doesn’t an expansion of nuclear power facilities, without a concrete plan for waste handling, seem like putting the cart before the horse? Again? Maybe not.

Got a nice little mention in a blog post over at the Going Green section of What They Think, congratulating L+L printers and iluvtrees.org for providing a quality service to clients, by helping them to develop their own sustainability initiatives.

We in the western developed world maintain a grand delusion when it comes to our water supply. But it’s becoming increasingly clear, especially in the Southwestern US, that all is not well on the water front.

So, now it’s 2010 and business leaders around the world are wondering what their corporate new year’s resolution should look like. With Copenhagen kind of a non-event, and still a fair amount of uncertainty in the air, what are they to do?

The folks at Phillips have developed a website widget that allows you, as a business or facility owner/manager, to input your energy profile, and it spits out a grade, allowing you to better understand your impact and what you can do.

The motion picture sensation Avatar is causing some disturbing after-effects for some viewers: feelings of despair and even suicidal tendencies, spurred by a realization of man’s impact on the earth. I gotta see this…