Clean-Water Activist Swims Gowanus Canal in Protective Suit for Earth Day

The day just finished, April 22nd, is a globally-recognised day of awareness for recycling and hybrids and all the good stuff. To celebrate, the European Space Agency released this rather wonderful image of our special planet 

Happy Earth Day! Today is a day we can all band together and share our love for this beautiful planet—or at least drown our sorrows about climate change with nerdy themed cocktails. Later today, President Barack Obama 

Via iHateTheMedia, here are a few of the predictions made on the first Earth Day. Don't these sound like the predictions today that fail, like the 50 million climate refugees by 2010 followed by the moving of the goalposts to 

The day just finished, April 22nd, is a globally-recognised day of awareness for recycling and hybrids and all the good stuff. To celebrate, the European Space Agency released this rather wonderful image of our special planet 

Via the Twitter feed of Pradheep Shanker, who blogs here. Related: "It's 'Buy Nothing Day' in North Korea Every Day of the Year"