In celebration of Earth Day I thought it would be appropriate to spotlight a website for an organization that focuses it’s efforts on preserving our world and the nature around us. My family has had a new appreciation for the outdoors recently with our venturs into camping together as a family. I hope to instill in my kids an even greater appreciation and love for the outdoors, which includes taking care of what we’ve got.

The Nature Conservancy website homepage

Here’s a little bit from The Nature Conservancy website about their Earth Day efforts and general efforts of their organization.

Welcome to The Nature Conservancy — the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

It’s Earth Day — it’s time to Spring Outside with your friends and family. Look below — we’ve got a preserve map and tips to get you inspired! Then use Facebook to get your friends outside, too — and send us a photo of your adventure in nature!

So get on out there and enjoy the Earth that surrounds us and takes care of us. You may also find more information about Earth Day at the Earth Day Network website.

Image: Screen capture from World Clock

My preferred background and theme for iGoogle is the world sunlight clock. This World Clock gives the time and so much more information as well.

Time, Population, Death, Illnesses, Environmental information, energy consumption, crimes, food use and much, much more.

I’m an on-again-off-again fan of John C. Dvorak. I regularly listen to TWiT and CrankyGeeks and Tech5 podcasts that he’s on regularly. Sometimes he offends me, but every time he at least makes me think a little harder about a topic.

I came across this recent column, Turn Off the Lights! of his in PC Magazine where he shares his opinion on the “green” movement. I’m all for saving the environment as much as we can, but I’m also for intelligent understanding of what our real impact is, not just what the popular movement of the minute seems to be.

What bothers me most about the green movement is the arrogance—the greener-than-thou attitude—of many participants. Combine these people with the dummies who just go along with the flock regarding what is best for mankind—er, personkind—and you have a dunce brigade telling everyone what to do.

The question then comes to light, excuse the pun, what are you really doing to impact the environment?