· Cape Wind is going up in smoke. Actually, that’s a bad metaphor for a clean energy project. Going up in healthy, salty, sea breezy air. Greenpeace is urgently urging your support.
· Know that really fancy dark mahogany dining set your friends with money are so proud of? The one that makes your rickety plastic Ikea job shame the very Kraft macaroni noodles you eat from it? Well, 80% of the illegal market in Peruvian mahogany, a trade threatening the very survival of Peru’s indigenous people, ends up in American homes in dining sets exactly like your snobby friends’. You have my permission to kick them in the shins. NRDC would prefer you send a letter.
· Care2.org and Defenders of Wildlife have a virtual march on Washington dubbed “Leave No Species Behind,” in which they’ll urge Congress to use standardized testing to educate species on how not to become extinct. Actually, it’s a catch-all protest to pressure Congress to take environmental concerns more seriously, whether it be endangered species, toxic pollution or the great sell-out of our national parks. They’ve got a little map of the nation showing where its 97,000 (and counting) virtual marchers are hailing from, and the western half is looking pretty paltry. C’mon, I know I’ve got some readers in Utah and Texas – I’m looking at you!
· But now that the Ralph Macchio-signed Karate Kid panda bear auction is closed, what can you buy your loved one for Earth Day? Don’t forget – they’ll never forgive you. Not after you totally screwed them on World Water Day (March 22nd.) Try some free trade coffee and support NRDC. Or buy some bitchin’ mod furniture from Josh over at Lazy Environmentalist. And there’s a whole host of eco-friendly products featured on The Ideal Bite’s Marketplace page. I promise there will be some fine, high-quality, free-trade, handcrafted crap with the Sludgie logo for you to buy them next year.