When it comes to pandas, Jack Black doesn’t mess around.  He’s taken his role in Kung Fu Panda to a whole new level by joining Conservation International fight to protect pandas and their habitat. Allow Jack to explain:

Mr. Black and Conservation International have garnered some heavyweight support for the Panda Survival Plan, but they still need help.  So, as long as you’re not one of those people who says “Pandas…just don’t like ‘em”, then takepart by joining Team Earth and their efforts to protect these adorable bear-cats, I mean, pandas.

To save trees, reduce recycling hassles, and quit the clutter, a lone college student has launched Yellow Pages Goes Green, a campaign to eliminate the unsolicited delivery of phone books.

When you receive the yellow and white slabs on your front step, do you:

a)  Plop them in a corner for use as a door stop or high chair?

b)  Test your strength by attempting to tear one in half?

c)  Peruse the pages in search of new friends, baby names, or prank call victims?

d)  Continue construction of your phone directory fortress to keep out unsolicited mail?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, the time has come to remove yourself from the vicious phone book cycle.  And you should probably get out more.  While some people still use phone books for actually looking up numbers, most of us could probably live happily without the old clunkers.

takepart by opting out of receiving phone books and support the movement to eliminate waste and save paper.  It’s free, easy, and who knows what new hobbies you might take up!

Photographer Jack Gescheidt has taken his love for art and trees and turned it into the TreeSpirit Project, a spontaneous and unpredictable photo project that inspires the ancient and “reliable alchemy” we’ve experienced for thousands of years through our connection and interdependence with trees.

Gescheidt’s photographs depict the power and the vulnerable beauty of trees, helping to raise human consciousness and inspire others to help preserve our green spaces. The photographs give both participants and viewers the opportunity to share a relationship of play and adventure with nature. The experience of being photographed with trees, says Gescheidt, is just as important as the photographs themselves, and inspires people to express their own unique connection to the natural world around them.

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