THE GREEN MILLENNIAL

Pictures of the Day! My personal favorite- the hedgehog!  I know that I have never posted somethings like this, but I thought that you might like to just look at some pictures relevant to other posts and topics. Here are some endangered species that are endangered because of our careless actions. When we pollute, adorable endangered animals like these die. :( Some ways that you can protect these endangered animals are: 1. Use less energy which contributes to global warming 2. Drive Less to conserve our environment 3. Create a compost pile to reduce food waste 4. Recycle and Reuse- don't use landfills 5. Eat organic and don't spray herbicides and pesticides because of water pollution.

The Marine Mammal Center If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA. Workers   Volunteering http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/Get-Involved/volunteer/#.UTzKF9FDpAs The Marine Mammal Center offers many volunteer opportunities including a youth volunteer program for ages 15 to 17. Volunteers help rescue and rehabilitate sick and injured marine mammals, educate the public about the conservation of marine mammals and their environment, and more. You can visit the Marine Mammal Center Website for more information:                                                     http://www.marinemammalcenter.org Go save the planet!

Eco Hero: Jane Goodall Beginning in 1957, Jane Goodall started her work at Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Africa. Her mission was to better understand how chimpanzees live and to help build awareness about chimpanzees. Jane wanted people to help protect the chimpanzees and their environment. While there, Jane befriended and lived like chimpanzees and grew to love them. Realizing how important these animals were, she decided to start Roots and Shoots: the Jane Goodall Institute. "Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots provides young people with the knowledge, tools and hopeful inspiration to improve the environment and the quality of life for people and animals." You can go to the Roots & Shoots website for more information: http://rootsandshoots.org/ Go save the planet!

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The great pacific garbage patch is formed by us, humans.  When we produce and consume plastic or any other form of waste, we are contributing to the many deaths of marine wildlife every day.  Midway Atoll, or Midway Island, is located in the Pacific Ocean.  Of the 1.5 million Laysan Albatrosses  that inhabit Midway Atoll, nearly all are found to have plastic in their digestive system.   Approximately one-third of the chicks die mostly due to being fed plastic from their parents. If we reduce the amount of plastic that we produce and consume, millions of marine wildlife lives will be saved. Go save the planet!

Creating Extinction With our bad habits There are countless animals and other living things suffering from global warming.  Polar bears are highly threatened by melting ice due to our carelessness and unawareness.  With their homes melting away quickly, polar bears are being forced to move to warmer climate so that they are able to go to bed and wake up the next day on solid land.  If we keep being as careless as we are right now, Polar bears will become extinct very soon.  This is because polar bears cannot survive just any where, they can only live in very cold, icy climates.  When the ice runs out, polar bears and countless other amazing species of living things will become extinct in the wild. Put some posters around your neighborhood to raise awareness: http://assets.worldwildlife.org/publications/527/files/original/DareTheWorld_Vertical_19.6x26.6cm.pdf?1355438862 http://assets.worldwildlife.org/publications/528/files/original/WhatAreYou...

An Environmentalist's View on Cars Just about everyone drives almost everywhere in cars!  Considering that an average car emits about 6 tons of carbon dioxide every year.   Knowing that global warming is mainly caused by carbon dioxide, that can't be good!   This photograph shows a car emitting a large amount of smog, contributing largely to global warming, This chart shows how Americans commute to work: The amount of Americans that commute to work by driving alone is very believable, considering the large quantity of cars that are on roads and highways all of the time, but also thoroughly disgusting!  Cars contribute to a very high percentage  of global warming  by emitting carbon dioxide, smog, smoke, and other harmful gases into the air and are driven almost everywhere by most of the U.S. population. Cars produce a lot of smog, which hurts living conditions and creates numerous health problems, such as asthma and even l...

Environmental Affects of Eating Animals 7.3 million people, or 3.2 percent of U.S. adults, follow a vegetarian-based diet.  About 1 million people, or 0.5 percent, are vegans, who consume no animal products at all. Being a vegetarian myself, I know all about it.  My mom used to be vegan, so I know all about that, too.  Vegetarians do not eat any meat while vegans don't eat any animal products at all, including dairy and eggs.  One of the questions I get asked most often is "So, what  do  you eat?" The answer to that is basically everything that isn't an animal.  You can eat fruits, vegetables, grains, tofu, dairy, eggs, and everything that didn't have a face.  There is also processed soy products like vegetarian sausage, bacon, burgers, and chicken. Some people who eat animals probably don't even know exactly what they eat when they scarf down a hot dog.  Most likely they think "I'm just eating meat" or "I'm just eat...