• Care2 :: Annie’s Green Living Series :: Healthy Home :: 12/12/07
  Care2 Newsletters: Heart of the Holidays: Peace with Frankincense and Myrrh, Meaningful Green Decorating, and more
  (tags: newsletter care2 healthyhome greenliving green holidays xmas)
• Java Script - On reheating coffee | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 21 Nov 2007
  To reheat or brew anew?
  (tags: advice coffee food energy environment)
• Fry, Fry Again - On used cooking oil | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 26 Nov 2007
  What to do with used cooking oil?
  (tags: advice reuse food oil environment)

• UCS - Greentips - November 2007
  LED Lights Make Your Holiday Greener
  (tags: newsletter greentips ucs holidays xmas green)
• Buzz Kill - On Jell-O shots | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 05 Dec 2007
  Let’s talk about Jell-O shot cups: paper or plastic?
  (tags: advice green reuse paper plastic food)
• American Rivers :: The Current :: December 2007
  Progress on America’s Most Endangered Rivers™ of 2007 & more
  (tags: newsletter americanrivers thecurrent environment water)

• GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow
  ” GreenPrint software eliminates unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees”
  (tags: software reduce green paper trees)
• Flickr: Handmade
  Everything created by hand with your fantasy!
  (tags: flickr photos diy crafts)
• YouWild.org
  “Change yourself, change the world”
  (tags: photos animals wildlife theinternets defendersofwildlife)

• Green Mommies Carnival: A Green Holiday Season | The Green Mommy
  “Welcome to the first edition of the The Green Mommies Blog Carnival! This issue focuses on creating a Green Holiday Season.”
  (tags: green carnival holidays xmas)
• Ideal Bite - Bite-sized ideas for light green living
  “Green living tips made fun and easy, green consumer, organic food and clothing, eco-friendly, ecologically sustainable, recycling and more!”
  (tags: green blog)
• Save Rainforests by Pledging to Reduce Holiday Consumption Petition
  “This holiday season, pledge to give at least one gift that conserves, rather than consumes, rainforest habitat!”
  (tags: takeaction petition holidays xmas consumerism)

• Care2: Annie’s Green Living Series: 12/11/07
  Care2 Newsletters: Be a Green Wrap Star, Melt the Ice Safely, Green Packing and Shipping, The Winter Wreath
  (tags: newsletter care2 greenliving holidays xmas gifts green)
• The Sierra Club: Club Currents: Volume VI, #93: 12/11/07
  Sierra Club: Email - Sierra Club Currents — Vote for Clean Energy!
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubcurrents takeaction environment)
• The Sierra Club: Club Insider: 12/11/07
  Sierra Club: Email - Are Hummers Really Greener Than Hybrids?
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubinsider takeaction environment)

• New American Dream: Carbon Conscious Consumer
  “This Month: Bring Your Own Bag; Neither paper nor plastic when you take part in the new BYOB!” -> Take the pledge win a prize!
  (tags: takeaction newamericandream reuse reduce plastic contest)
• Defenders of Wildlife: eNews: December 2007
  Defenders of Wildlife: Email - Wildlife eNews: A Dramatic Tale
  (tags: defendersofwildlife takeaction animals wildlife conservation environment)
• RAN.org: Take Action: Write Your Own Green Holiday Song!
  “Send us a creative song this week, and we’ll compile all of them into a book of green carols for our entire network.”
  (tags: takeaction ran holidays xmas contest environment)

• NRDC: This Green Life: December 2007
  NRDC: Mindfulness over Matter
  (tags: nrdc newsletter thisgreenlife holidays xmas green)
• Celebrate good times, come on! No, seriously. | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  “Greens need to learn how to celebrate their friends and their movement”
  (tags: news politics energy environment)
• Flickr: Holiday Gift Ideas DIY
  “A group to share images and directions or tutorials for DIY gifts. This group is being started to help fuel DIYers for the upcoming holiday season but can be a beneficial any time of year.”
  (tags: reduce reuse recycle holidays gifts diy photos flickr)

SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.

I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.

Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention – dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.

Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken – if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.

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• Bitter fruit | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  “How corporate control of produce markets squeezes workers, farmers, and consumers”
  (tags: food capitalism)
• WiserEarth
  “WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the largest movement in the world.”
  (tags: green website)
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
  “The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.”
  (tags: capitalism stuff garbage movies)

• The Gingerbread Diaries: Building an eco-home from a favorite holiday sweet | By Roz Cummins | Grist | ‘Tis the Season | 29 Nov 2007
  “When my friend Deanna told me that she wanted to make a gingerbread house this year — and, in particular, to do so on Black Friday, aka Buy Nothing Day — I immediately asked if we could make an environmentally sound house.”
  (tags: holidays food diy xmas)
• NRDC’s Green Holiday Guide
  “As the year winds down, are you tensing up? If you’re worried about the busy holiday season, relax — NRDC is here to help. We’ve put together this special section to make the holidays easier for you and easier on the environment.”
  (tags: nrdc holidays xmas gifts green)
• NPCA: Park Lines, December 2007
  Everglades National Park turns 60 years old on December 6, 2007! & more
  (tags: newsletter npca parklines parks)