A.M. Greenlist: Earth Day edition

>> Happy Earth Day! Send your friends Grist's Earth Day ecard -- that encourages them to push their cars off a cliff :P

>> Author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Michael Pollan on why you should bother making green changes, when the problem seems so vast and one person's actions so small:

For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious about changing — something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on specialists — that helped get us into this mess in the first place. It’s hard to believe that the same sort of thinking could now get us out of it.

Then Pollan goes into why you should garden. It could end up saving you a lot of money. After all:

>> The NY Times covers the rising cost of organic food -- that doesn't quite address the fact that the cost of "conventional" food has been rising for consumers too. I'd like to see a more comparative analysis: Is the price of organic food rising faster than the price of conventional food at the consumer level?

>> We can do it! says the Sierra Club, and features a bunch of Earth Day-related DIY info on its front page for those interested in making some green changes in their lives.

>> Take a work break and read Grist's hilar list of "the year's goodies, oddities, and inanities": " Best use of flotation device to protect baby seals: Pamela Anderson.

>> Strange eco-ish item that didn't make the Grist list: PETA will award a $1-million prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”