Goldman Foundation’s Six Newest Environmental Heroes

San Francisco-based Goldman Environmental Foundation has singled out six new environmental activists from around the world, awarding them the famous Goldman Prize, which is to environmentalism what the Nobel Peace Prize is to peace activists.

This year’s honorees include an anti-coal campaigner from the Chicago area who organized neighbors and succeed in shutting down two very old, very polluting coal-fired power plants.

To watch videos of each of this year’s winners, go to Goldman winners.

Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer???

What do you get when you take a story everybody knows and change it ever so slightly? In the case of Rudolph, the “Green-Nosed” Reindeer, you get a memorable way to remind people about the importance of saving energy -- in this case, by using compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Watch this short video from Greenpeace and you’ll see what we mean.

2 Million Have Watched ‘Plastic Bag Mockumentary’

There are documentaries and then there are “mockumentaries.” A mockumentary is like a documentary, except that it’s a send-up --  a cynical, sarcastic take on an issue.

The “Plastic Bag Mockumentary” uses form of a documentary about endangered species to mock how plastic bags are endangered, too.

The very clever point the filmmakers are trying to make is that plastic bags need to be banned precisely because of the damage they cause the environment. Watch and laugh.

The ‘Life’ of Water

Just like people have lives, water does too. Well, sort of. You’ll find out when you watch “The Life of Water,” a short film made by a branch of the United Nations.

Ready to lol?

Who hasn’t forgotten something while rushing to get out of the house in the morning? Well, this guy has forgotten two things. Which do you think is the more important?