North Americans consume as if we had 5 planets. Watch this video and follow the link to the pledge that thousands of people have already signed encouraging low-impact living. The pledge is here: www.care2.com/oneplanet

Long-term insurance companies like Conseco treating their clients like dirt. A must read if you have aging parents, or plan to grow old some day!

Thankfully, the lucky duck's prognosis is a 75% chance of survival. Apparently its slow metabolism saved it.

Net Neutrality, an issue that has been debated widely in the States this year, has migrated north like a bad disease. At issue here, as in the US, is whether telecom companies should be allowed to control access to the internet.

Looks like the government in Colorado is pushing for 20% of all energy (except jet fuel) to be from renewable sources by 2015.

Boy pets deer and deer chases boy to give him unsolicited him more love than expected.

text message or be called by Video the Vote, or one of our partner organizations on election day to help an all volunteer citizen team monitor the elections and post the video results on You Tube--this will be an historic opportunity

"The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else."

A powerful video commentary on US war policy. Original video source: http://www.wewillnotbesilenced.com .

Care2 will now be hosting a site called movingideas.org that was developed by the American Prospect. The Moving Ideas Network connects nonprofits with a progressive audience interested in policy issues and advocacy.