He’s baaaaaaaaak….

Rodale Books, publisher of former Vice President Al Gore’s No. 1 New York Times bestseller about global warming entitled AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, will reissue his first bestselling book, EARTH IN THE BALANCE: Ecology and the Human Spirit in Fall 2006

I think more and more folks are seeing flaws in his less-than-green lifestyle. Perhaps it’s all the things he has in common with the petroleum industry.

Some of the original ecologists - Scouts!

Drudge reports on a couple of Scouts that saved a little girl over the weekend. Need more of these in the headlines, I think. BSA has been teaching green-ness for years.

The Christian Carnival is up over at Jeremy’s place. And check out this week’s Carnival of the Green at Frugal for Life.

Snail venom, psycho killer raccoons, kangaroo contraceptives, and a very lost manatee all in critter country today. And here’s one on animal orthpaedics for Dad.

Is tee-ing off at the International Space Station scientific? Physics is physics, after all.

Some interesting restoration ecology projects going on in New York City habitats.

“Central Park, for example, is completely man-made,” says Danoff-Burg. “Starting in the late 1800s, in just 5 to 10 years, the park was created, including all four of its bodies of water. Central Park is a classic representation of restoration ecology — a ‘natural’ environment created by humans.”

The folks at Dartmouth, Cornell and U of Wyoming are learning how the loss of one species can make a big difference in a freshwater ecosystem.

How do you get from Ireland to Australia in 10,000 eco-friendly miles?

When the invitation to be a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding arrived at her home in a Welsh woodland a year ago, Barbara Haddrill was both delighted and perturbed.

Far from being concerned about the shape, shade and size of her dress or choice of flowers, the overriding concern for the 28-year-old environmental worker was how to traverse the 10,374 miles from her caravan in a forest in Powys to the nuptials in Brisbane.

For Barbara is no ordinary bridesmaid.

She is the founding member of a new (and hitherto unknown) class of eco-friendly bridesmaids who shun the dubious pleasures of the economy class cabin of an aircraft and instead travel to the wedding by land and sea in the name of the environment.

Got to hand it to her for walking (or train/plane/boat/auto-ing) her talk. Hey, Hip and Zen Pen ladies - are you tracking this one?

Ed Brown over at Care of Creation Blog notes that some folks are making alternative energy the hard way. In this case, by turning pig pilings into crude oil.

Headline: Rice found to contain engineered protein. Must be how she keeps up with the President on their bike rides.

Loblolly pines love greenhouse gases. By the way, I thought all green plants took in CO2 and put out oxygen.

Finally, Christian blogger John Ray has a new blog on health and food issues that is worth your time (if you’re into such things). It’s called the Food and Health Skeptic. How does that link to ecology? Well, this site says the “environment dictates successful diet and weight loss.”

So will you lose weight walking in the woods and enjoying nature while munching Big Macs? I think we need some field experimentation on this!