| With the increase in population, more motor | | | | educating people about the effects of green |
| vehicles on the road and all of the | | | | house gases. What is great about NWF is the |
| greenhouse gasses floating up into the ozone, | | | | wealth of information they provide at their |
| there must be an impact of some kind on the | | | | website, and they are non-political. They |
| environment. Even if you do not believe | | | | have a whole section for kids and you can |
| global warming is real, the pollution, not to | | | | order magazines such as "Ranger Rick" which |
| mention the chemicals we eat daily ( that's a | | | | includes ice experiments, how to attract |
| topic I will discuss in another article) is a | | | | backyard wildlife and more. NWF also has many |
| health hazard, but cleaning up the | | | | photos of nature and wildlife to view and if |
| environment is not an impossible mission. It | | | | you have kid artists in your house, they can |
| simply starts with a local goal, a little | | | | enter their artwork and have it posted on the |
| education and motivation to spread that goal. | | | | NWF web site. It's way cool! Anyway, check it |
| | | | out and read a little about nature and global |
| One of the organizations I really admire is | | | | warming and check out some of the pictures. |
| the National Wildlife Federation because NWF | | | | You can also read Larry's blog at |
| President Larry Schweiger goes above and | | | | |
| beyond his call of duty to educate the public | | | | The reason I am posting this is because |
| about global warming, energy conservation and | | | | global warming has now entered the political |
| protecting wildlife and our future on this | | | | arena and somehow I believe the majority of |
| planet. I have to admit that I once was | | | | the U.S. population will not take it serious |
| skeptical about global warming, but after | | | | if it becomes nothing more than a debate |
| much research and especially after seeing | | | | between politicians trying to win a vote. On |
| "Inconvenient Truth" I believe it is | | | | a positive note more people are aware of it |
| necessary to reduce if not eliminate | | | | thanks to politics and the media. Perhaps I |
| greenhouse gas and convert to other more | | | | and hundreds of thousands of others around |
| natural energy sources. No I do not believe | | | | the world are wrong, but I would rather take |
| Al Gore made that documentary for self | | | | the necessary precautions and find out I was |
| interest. | | | | wrong in 20 years than do nothing and suffer |
| | | | the consequences. |
| I believe he sincerely has a passion for | | | | |