I hope you haven’t missed our environment forum where you can interact with other like-minded people and discuss everything imaginable. We also plant trees for every hundred members that sign up for a free forum account. So really, there is no reason not to join!

Here are some interesting topics from the forum worth highlighting this week:

Buying Local in a Recession, How will increasing prices affect our consumption patterns?

10 signs you have gone way to green. “Eco snobbery happens. Don’t let it happen to you!”

And here is one of our most active forum topics (it has received over 15000 views): Why is climate change not in the USA primaries?

As you read this the Olympics in Beijing are in full action, as well as in our forum. The latest Olympic related forum topic created talks about NBC Beijing Olympic set being air conditioned – outdoors.

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As a person and consumer you have the power to do something about climate change. Never forget or think otherwise. Sure you may wonder how much you’ll actually help by replacing your CFLs, recycling etc but in the end all small things path up to something bigger and more meaningful, especially when many join in.

This is part one of a series of posts explaining and giving advice on what you can do to combat climate change from your home, in the store, when you travel and on your spare time. All the things listed are easy to do, some things will take a little longer, but most of them will help save you money (besides all the positive effects on our earth).

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