• Green line in the sand | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  "50 green and civic groups roll out tough climate principles"
  (tags: news politics activism environment climatechange)
• Wing It Vegan
  Yummy vegan food that's almost too beautiful to eat!
  (tags: vegan food blog recipes)
• The heat is on Bill Gates | Salon
  "He now works to solve humanity's greatest problems with his foundation — yet has no program to curb global warming. That does not compute."
  (tags: news activism environment climatechange)
• Carnival of the Green # 170! @ The Natural Patriot
  "So the COTG turns 170 this week (in weeks, that is). Not sure how many dog years that is, but it’s pretty ripe vintage for a blog carnival."
  (tags: green carnival)

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• Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 | Mother Jones
  "Our industrial food system is rotten to the core. Heirloom arugula won't save us. Here's what will."
  (tags: news food farming organic)
• portland imc – 2009.02.27 – Activists Crash Sea Lion Press Conference At Bonneville Dam
  "Today, activists from the Sea Lion Defense Brigade and In Defense of Animals, along with several autonomous individuals, crashed a press conference held by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) at Bonneville Dam. The press conference was being held to pre-emptively curb public revulsion over the agencies' plans to kill sea lions on the river beginning next week."
  (tags: news environment animals wildlife conservation politics capitalism consumerism)
• Obama overrides Bush rule on Endangered Species Act – Los Angeles Times
  "Technically, federal agencies still have the option of consulting experts on construction projects' effect on threatened wildlife, but the president is requiring it to be exercised in every case."
  (tags: news politics barackobama environment animals wildlife conservation)
• A big green cheer for the stimulus bill | Salon
  "Billions to boost energy efficiency and clean up toxins? After eight dark years of Bush, environmentalists can hardly believe their eyes."
  (tags: news environment politics barackobama)
• On beer and wine | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 18 Feb 2009
  "Due to, among other things, (organic) beer, I ended up in a rather heated discussion on the environment the other day. I'm wondering if you could help clear up a couple of these more or less classic micro-level questions."
  (tags: advice environment)
• On the digital conversion | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 23 Feb 2009
  "What should people be doing with their old TVs if they decide to opt out of converter boxes and just buy a new one? Isn't this an ecological nightmare in the making?"
  (tags: advice tv technology recycle garbage environment)

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• Consumers Union: Don't take away Kansas' right to know
  "You helped beat back earlier efforts by big agribusiness that would have given you less information about what's in the milk you buy. But guess what? They're at it again in Kansas – Enough is enough!"
  (tags: consumersunion takeaction food kansas capitalism)
• Best Friends: Rescue Mission in MO
  "Best Friends has just returned from a special rescue mission at a burned-down puppy mill in Missouri."
  (tags: newsletter bestfriends animals companionanimals animalrescue animaladoption)
• Turning Transparent in a Green World: Carnival of the Green #169
  "For those of you who aren't familiar with these online events, carnivals are when one host blog lists many blog posts on a given subject (in this case, green), gives a brief description and then links the reader directly to the blog post."
  (tags: green carnival)
• The Sierra Club: Club Currents: Volume VII, #9, March 3, 2009
  "Sierra Club: Email – Unleash the Potential of Energy Efficiency"
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubcurrents environment takeaction)
• Baby's Favorite Food Photo Contest | WholeFoodsMarket.com
  "Upload a picture of your little one enjoying his or her favorite mealtime bite to your Flickr account and add it to the Whole Foods Market “Baby’s Favorite Foods” group for a chance to win a Whole Foods Market gift card, Whole Baby gift basket or a Canon Powershot digital ELPH camera. "
  (tags: contest wholefoods food)
• 'Your Wilderness' Newsletter, March 2009 | Campaign for America's Wilderness
  "Featured Wilderness – Chaco Canyon — Periscope to the Past"
  (tags: newsletter campaignforamericaswilderness yourwilderness environment)

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• Whalin' Palin | Salon
  "She may be off the national stage, but the Republican empress continues to ravage America's great wilderness state. Her latest target? Beluga whales."
  (tags: news politics environment animals wildlife conservation sarahpalin)
• Why we are going quietly nuts | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  "Lessons from cognitive dissonance theory for U.S. environmentalists"
  (tags: environment activism psychology science)
• On cleaning cars inside and out | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 02 Mar 2009
  "What are some environmentally friendly ways to keep my car clean, both inside and out?"
  (tags: advice cars diy cleaning)
• Eating less meat could cut climate costs – environment – 10 February 2009 – New Scientist
  "Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change. That's the dramatic conclusion of a study that totted up the economic costs of modern meat-heavy diets."
  (tags: news environment food climatechange)
• Change.org: Missouri, Puppy Mill Capital, Is Home to 3 Busts in 2 Weeks
  On three puppy mill rescues via HSMO and Best Friends.
  (tags: news animals companionanimals animalrescue animaladoption missouri)

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Update, 2/10/10: Wookie has been adopted (by Han, perhaps?).

It’s a dog! It’s a cat! It’s a…chinchilla? No, it’s Chewbacca!

I kid, I kid.

This lil’ Wookie is actually a senior Shih Tzu. He’s currently staying with the good folks at Foxwood Rescue, but he’d love to live out the rest of his days with a family of his very own!

Name: Wookie
DOB: 1998
Breed: Shih Tzu
Color: Black/White
Sex: Male/Neutered

Wookie is a sweet calm little lap dog. He is content to just lay around with you all day. He does ok with other calm small dogs and does fine with cats.

Wookie is totally housebroken and can be trusted to roam the house all day long. He is blind and does require eye drops 3 times a day due to having dry eye. Because of the fact that he is blind he would do best in a home without children.

Wookie is looking for a nice calm quite family to live the rest of his life with. He is in perfect health other then having to have the eye drops and is only 10 years old. Small dogs can live 15-20 years. He is a little guy and only weighs 14lbs.

Wookie is looking for a lap to call his own. Will that lap be yours?

Please say yes! Wookies need love too, you know.

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