Micro-Loft

How Small Homes Can Protect Animals

You may ask yourself how home size relates to animal and environmental protection. It's a fair question. The connection to animals is more subtle than the obvious green link to sustainability issues like water use, energy efficiency, etc. North American homes ...
Playing With Pigs

Playing With Pigs

Pigs are pretty awesome. And as poignantly pointed out by the Oatmeal, pigs are probably more awesome than you. Studies have illustrated pig's formidable intelligence in the animal kingdom - ranked behind chimps, dolphins, and elephants - so why do we still to...
The Walking Dead

The Modern Zombie Apocalypse

The Modern Zombie Apocalypse: An Exploration of Our Collective Descent into Mindless Consumerism and Environmental Devastation In the waning days of humanity's self-declared dominion over Earth, an insidious p...

The Interspecies Internet

What do dolphin researcher Diana Reiss, musician Peter Gabriel, MIT Internet visionary Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet have in common? Give up? They're all interested in interspecies communication. The power quartet got together in...

Sam Harris on Progress

"We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is hard work to climb down out of the trees, walk upright, and build a viable global...
Sloth Bear

How We Rescued the Dancing Bears

In this video, Kartick Satyanarayan from Wildlife SOS spoke at TEDIndia 2009 in Mysore about their work rescuing Sloth Bears from a long-standing cultural tradition of abuse. The nomadic Qalandar people in India go back to around the thirteenth century when...

Kierkegaard on Unhappiness

The unhappy person is one who has his ideal, the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness, the essence of his being, in some manner outside of himself. The unhappy man is always absent from himsel...
Make the Connection

Make the Connection

Make the connection. If you haven't yet removed animal products from your life you are causing suffering in the world for the sake of your status and personal gratification. Many still live with and love animal...