If you don't think this is cute you are not human (consider that you may be an android).

Quoted: Polar bear cub Flocke gets her feet wet in her enclosure at Nuremberg zoo in Germany

Not that I consider myself any sort of expert in sustainability, but I do understand the magic of compounding interest. Applied to population growth, where we're going is horrendously frightening and I wish more people would talk about it.

Quoted: According to Andrew Chung of the Star, Alan Wiesman of The World without us says we have to "limit every human female on Earth capable of bearing children to one." "I'm not trying to be sensationalistic or controversial," he says in an interview. "I'm trying to get us to think very hard about what the whole situation is." If we don't control ourselves, nature will do it for us. Every species that eats itself out of house and home experiences a population crash."

Cool video showing eco-vigilante Paul Watson's tactics to address sea conservation by directly acting against those who neglect the law.

Quoted: Video of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Zero-cylinders of hydrogen powered machinery. I'd love to drive that thing to work. The only problem is that the current top speed is 50. Get that up to 70ish and I'll be good to go on the human transport...

My favorite quote from this article is the second one below. Why can't Bush and co. let government scientists speak for themselves? Why do they have to stay "on message"? Isn't it our money being sent to probe further into scientific truth?

Quoted: The administration claims it wasn't trying to tell government scientists what to say about climate change, but e-mails obtained by Salon prove otherwise.

Quoted: When NOAA press officer Laborde was contacted to discuss the e-mails, he denied that interviews were subject to approval from White House officials. Confronted with his own e-mails, however, he said, "If you already knew the answer, why did you ask the question?"

Go get 'em, Al! If there's one person that should see your new movie or slideshow, it's the president.

Quoted: "Why should we set aside the global scientific consensus," Gore said, his voice rising with emotion. "Is it because Exxon Mobil wants us to set it aside? Why should we set aside the conclusion of scientists in the United States, including the National Academy of Sciences, and around the world including the 11 most important national academies of science on the globe and substitute for their view the view of Exxon Mobil. Why?"

Salon is in a joint project called "Early Signs" with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and NPR's "Living on Earth."

Quoted: The fabled glaciers on Tanzania's majestic mountain will soon be gone. Its forests are disappearing, too. For local farmers, this could mean disaster. For the rest of us, it's another unbearable loss on an overheating planet.

I blogged a bit about Spimes today. Spimes is a proposal to track objects through space/time. Oddly compelling stuff.