Offshore drilling would not significantly lower gas prices or solve the energy crisis. Instead of more drilling, we need real, long-term solutions that will end our dependence on oil once and for all.

Offshore drilling would not significantly lower gas prices or solve the energy crisis. Instead of more drilling, we need real, long-term solutions that will end our dependence on oil once and for all.

Offshore drilling would not significantly lower gas prices or solve the energy crisis. Instead of more drilling, we need real, long-term solutions that will end our dependence on oil once and for all.

Margo Pellegrino paddled 500 miles to save our seas in July, and you can join the effort by letting Congress know that healthy oceans matter to you.

Pollution, overexploitation and habitat degradation are pushing the world's oceans into a state of silent collapse. The longer we wait to fix these problems, the harder and more expensive it will be to turn them around.

To keep our oceans clean and healthy, we need a Healthy Oceans Act like Oceans 21. This national law would coordinate federal efforts to reduce pollution and protect ocean habitats so that beaches stay clean and fish and other ocean animals thrive.

Urge your representative to support Oceans 21 today.

Margo Pellegrino is paddling 500 miles to save our seas, and you can join the effort by letting Congress know that healthy oceans matter to you.

Pollution, overexploitation and habitat degradation are pushing the world's oceans into a state of silent collapse. The longer we wait to fix these problems, the harder and more expensive it will be to turn them around.

To keep our oceans clean and healthy, we need a Healthy Oceans Act like Oceans 21. This national law would coordinate federal efforts to reduce pollution and protect ocean habitats so that beaches stay clean and fish and other ocean animals thrive.

Urge your representative to support Oceans 21 today.

If you can believe it, there was a time when colleges and universities didn’t have people looking after eco issues. Energy and water meters went unwatched, pesticides floated freely across quads, organics were laughed out of the cafeteria, and recycle bins were used strictly as gravity bongs. But no more, my mortarboarded friends. Today, schools are grade grubbing on green report cards and The Princeton Review is rating colleges on their green stats. Here is a roundup of the sustainability spearheads from five major universities (Stanford, University of Maryland, Arizona State, Sacramento State, and Ohio State) each giving their elevator speech in what has become a very competitive race.

Also check out How to Go Green: Back to School

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