How can Google Earth and Facebook be good tools toward achieving sustainability?

		Finding love on Facebook can lead to sustainable projects-True Story. Silvia and Vicenzo, as many young couples these days, met on the social networks MySpace and Facebook. But their story is slightly different, or should I say more inspiring, than any other I’ve heard before. After two months of virtual communication, they decided to leave everything behind and... Read this true story!

It’s time to take a deep look at the world’s oceans
We humans are air-breathing landlubbers, and that shapes the way we see and treat the world. We don’t think much about what’s underwater or underground. So we’ve been dumping garbage into the oceans and taking what we want from them for years without considering the consequences. We’ve never had to look at any of it – until now, said David Suzuki. Discover why.

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Videos of the week

	EcoStiletto Go Green Water Challenge EcoStiletto's Rachel Sarnoff took the Go Green Water Challenge of Green Hollywood.The results will finally put an end to the bath vs. shower debate once and for all.

	IFAW Emergency Relief Video - Narrated by Pierce Brosnan In this video produced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and narrated by Pierce Brosnan, viewers get an overview of the emergency relief work achieved by the organization to save animals.

	The state of the planet 1 Twenty years after the Brundtland report coined the term 'sustainable development', The State Of The Planet scours the world for the exceptions where it is the rule, and asks presidents, ministers, scientists, business people and activists, why making economies 'sustainable' remains so elusive.

	The state of the planet 2 This is the second part of The State Of The Planet video, featuring interviews with international leaders such as Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate about why making economies 'sustainable' remains so elusive.

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Sierra Club Canada
Presents
Tar Sands Film Festival

Join us on February 19, during President Obama’s visit to Ottawa, Sierra Club Canada is presenting the Tar Sands Film Festival with films about the tar sands and the Mackenzie Gas Project. Canada is trying to sell dirty tar sands oil as a solution to U.S. energy needs -- our message is "Don't Buy It!"

Featuring the Ottawa premiere of “One River, Two Shores: Reflections on the Mackenzie Gas Project,” with film producer France Benoit from Yellowknife. There will be two screenings of this film, in English and French.
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