Ideas for a Thinking Planet.

The following article does a good job of reminding people that everything happening in politics is a CHOICE.  Some person or people MADE that choice. If you dislike the choices being made, working on putting different people in charge.

The ocean water’s capacity to hold oxygen is dropping as global temperatures rise. The oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  These changes are killing aquatic life over large and expanding areas.   That’s a problem.

… in which America is trying to catch up to Bhutan.  Good luck with that.

The movie Avatar has been a huge hit.  It’s full of messages about beauty, belonging, and balance — which are in short supply on Earth.  People are enchanted.  There are a lot of underlying messages that are getting missed, however.  Let’s take a look…

Today is International Women’s Day.  If you are a human being, then you arrived on this Earth through a woman’s body.  Therefore, it is important to respect women and their roles in society, providing them with the full complement of human rights.  You can read more about this holiday on the Bloggers Unite event page.

International Women

Remember that the economy is a subset of the environment, because the environment contains all life on Earth.  Without a healthy environment, the economy cannot be healthy either.  Conversely, when people’s needs are met, they have more ability to protect the environment, whereas hungry people tend to ravage it.

Leatherback sea turtles are threatened by many dangers.  Please sign this petition to help protect them.

This article discusses some fascinating discoveries of new species in the world’s oceans.  And we’ve barely scratched under the surface!