TOOLS Water Smarts You know your carbon footprint, but how about your water footprint? Find out how much water you use just to eat a roast beef sandwich every day for lunch. www.waterfootprint.org
Offset the Dog Discover ways to green your pets: how to keep ticks off naturally, where to find eco-friendly pet products and how to offset Fido’s carbon emissions. http://planetgreen.discovery.com/go-green/green-pets
ONLINE GAMES Green Your Brain See how much eco-trivia you know—and add some of your own for other players. www.greenmybrain.com
Cool Pursuit Race to turn off all the appliances left on by E. Mission, the arch nemesis of Snowy the snowman, as you try to keep mountain slopes covered with the white stuff. www.keepwintercool.com.au
Transition to Sustainability Consider some big ideas for how the world can build a sustainable future, presented in this free downloadable book from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. www.iucn.org/resources/publications/index.cfm
INSPIRE KIDS Three children’s books have won the 2008 Green Earth Book Awards—the nation’s first prize for environmental stewardship in children’s literature. Winners are:
Winners of the fifth annual awards will be announced in January 2009. www.newtonmarascofoundation.org/index.cfm
ACTIVITIES Biking Around A helpful list of links provides bike maps and other cycling resources throughout the U.S. and Canada. www.transalt.org/files/resources/mapsother.html
Exhibit Earth Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City through August 16, 2009, before traveling to Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. www.amnh.org/exhibitions/climatechange
Citizen Science Amateur scientists can help researchers generate data across the country and can even start their own projects. Check out the list of nearly 100 activities, including the Fish Survey Project and Visibility Volunteers, who measure air quality. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides all you need to know at www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit. For budding botanists, beginning in early spring help scientists track when plants bud and flower to record the effects of climate change in the BudBurst program. www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst
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