Eco-Operate

A Lighter Footprint

Yahoo has a Carbon Footprint Calculator that you can use to see what impact you
and your friends/family are having on the planet. What's great about it is that one
can instantly make a plan and 'pledge' to offset their impact.
In measurable amounts of carbon you can decide to what degree you can
lessen your impact through simple and often easy choices.

Equally good, or maybe even better is that the site shows how many others are
making a 'pledge' and to what extent their positive accumulative effect will be.

Current count:
62,050 People are pledging to save 168,467 TONS of C02/yr
Which is equivalent to 125 not driving for about a year.

TED.com and The Sapling Foundation

I've been talking to people recently about ideas, where they originate
and then how they are 'seeded' and nurtured. More on that later...
because it must be conceded that while an idea may be the birth
of any movement(or at least in the ways that human beings
record the history of a movement)...

a need precedes it and a commitment follows it-
if it is to take roots, grow and spread.

Two truly inspirational organizations exist of which students
need to be aware: TED.com and The Sapling Foundation
Please visit them!!

General overview: TED.com and Sapling Foundation info, mission statement etc.

TED.com
TED speakers previously recorded at individual conferences then posted on the
website for viewing, embedding in your own site or blog, or for projecting for
community discussion.