From the site: More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March 30. Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic—and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds [...]

Environmentalist and political activist Wangari Maathi passed away on 25th September, 2011, at the Nairobi Hospital, after a prolonged struggle with cancer. She was the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to win the Nobel Peace prize. http://greenbeltmovement.org/index.php Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, an environmentalist, a civil society and [...]

I just joined My Green Face, an online environmental community “where socializing leads to action.”  Together we can truly make a difference! MyGreenFace.com My Page

From the site: In honor of Earth Day, we’ll plant a tree for every new person who “Likes” CREDO on Facebook between Earth Day (April 22, 2011) and the end of the month. Help our movement grow. The more friends you get to join us, the more trees we’ll plant.

Be a part of Earth Hour by turning off your lights tonight at 8:30 pm your time. From the site: YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, [...]

This is the cutest green site I have seen in a long time. On LayZ Green People you can register and make a pledge to do one small thing to help the environment. March’s goal is to take a pledge to save paper! http://www.layzgreenpeople.com

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I’m up in the middle of the night doing a bit of laundry, got behind on my housework. I know there is a better way for me to manage my household, time-tested ways women have used for generations. Let me find out. This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

This is pretty awesome, this guy has built an island from recycled plastic bottles. From the site: What is Spiral Island II? It is a tropical island paradise floating on over 70,000 recycled plastic bottles. It is about 20 meters (60 feet) in diameter, and growing, soon to contain over 100,000 bottles! From 1998 to [...]

Interview with Dave Rietz, webmaster and co-developer of Notmilk.com, a website devoted to exposing the harmful effects of dairy consumption. NotMilk is owned by Mr. Robert Cohen, the author of “MILK, the Deadly Poison” and “MIlk a-z”. This interview was first published on a prior site I had for Veggie Mama in 2003. Trula: Why [...]

Question: Trula, what if you want to live green but aren’t able to do all the hard work involved? Or what if you just don’t want to? I lived on a farm growing up and much of what you describe makes me think of the barrenness of my childhood. We didn’t have solar panels and [...]

I am so impressed that you use cloth diapers, that was one thing I flat-out refused to do with my kids with any serious effort. With my youngest, now 10, I did use cloth diapers some of the time but not very often. I wish I had not used disposables and I thank you for [...]

I’m the type people sneer at and say, What next, are you gonna go beat your clothes on the rocks rather than have a washing machine? I used to get offended by that and say of course not, but now I could actually see myself doing this. We’ve been without a working washing machine for [...]

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This looks pretty cool: Handmade Nation is a documentary about the rise of DIY craft, art and design.http://indiecraftdocumentary.blogspot.com/ This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

This looks interesting: From a life of anger, violence, despair and resentment to one of commitment and renewal, Ghetto Plainsman is a searing journey of one of the Green Movement’s most original voices at a time when the world is in crisis and heading into ecological collapse.Ghetto Plainsman by Jared Manos Subscribe to Family Footprint [...]

The National Geographic channel will have a show tonight called The Human Footprint that details your entire life’s consumption; what you drink, eat, wear, etc. I’m so curious about it, I wonder ‘whose’ average life they are compiling the consumption on. I think the average North American consumes way more than the average South African, [...]

From the Earth Hour site: On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in [...]

I rarely buy paper towels and when I do, it cracks me up how quickly we go through them. When I use cloth it’s like I don’t notice how much I am wiping up spills and stuff. Reducing your use of paper towels is as easy as putting a cloth towel in your kitchen. Buy [...]

I certainly don’t pretend to no longer have any complicity in ‘the environmental problem’ because of the choices I have made to actively reduce my impact on the environment. No one I know who lives the way I do or even more extreme pretends to no longer have any complicity in the environmental problem. We [...]