Green: In honor of Earth Day, today’s post will be regarding the environment. Time released its collection of the “greenest” websites online. The results? Well there were many site I had never heard of, but some may be familiar to you.

• Grist – the funny environmental site
• TreeHugger – a guide to sustainable green living
• New York Times Dot Earth – Andrew Revkin’s blog on the Earth
• Guardian Climate Change – the Brit paper’s window into what nations need to do to go green
• RealClimate – a blog on climate for and by scientists
• The Wall Street Journal Environmental Capital – how the environment effects the economy
• No Impact Man – the personal blog of a “guilty liberal” who went green
• EcoGeek – Time says it best: “porn for hardcore science, tech and enviro freaks” (it’s not really porn by the way)
• Ecorazzi – the paparazzi for the eco-concious
• Switchboard – a group blog about anything green
• Mongabay – news, commentary and educational material from a converted economist
• Climate Ethics – straight commentary on how global warming effects our vision of right and wrong
• Climate Progress – insightful observations from the author of Hell and High Water
• World Changing – place for planet crusaders to unite and start projects
• Planet Ark – website devoted to reduce our carbon footprint

Not so green: Florida has three major species of turtles that inhabit our beaches. As a Florida kid, I was taught to lower lights near the beach at night, and never touch turtle nests, to try and keep our turtle population up. Well this year, the Florida Loggerhead turtle population was at its lowest count in 17 years. Loggerheads are the only Florida turtles that regularly eat shrimp; a habit that many believe has led to a decrease in the turtle population. Loggerheads are a fickle turtle species though, because it can take up to thirty years for them to reproduce. This means that this year’s shortage could very well be because of environmental issues a decade or more ago. What does this show us? We need to constantly be aware of our impact. Something minor that doesn’t seem to have any effect on our present could affect our future in a major way. To support turtle rehabilitation visit your local turtle rehabilitation center.