Best of our wild blogs: 5 Jan 08

Can we sell our land?
Powerful response of Chief Seattle to the offer to buy traditional land, full text on the nature scouter blog. Here's an extract of the poignant prose..

So we will consider your offer to buy our land.
If we decide to accept, I will make one condition:
The white man must treat the beasts of this earth as his brothers.
I am a savage and do not understand any other way.
I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie,
left by the white man who shot them from a passing train.
I am a savage and I do not understand
how the smoking iron horse can be more important
than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.

Open up your eyes to the beach
and see the living shores! on the justin dive blog

Blackle: a new green?
a black screen to save energy, on the reuters environment blog

Save your trash: because there is no such thing as away
just started by the man who saved his trash for a year

Powering the Planet with Garbage
bacteria power on the daily galaxy blog

Do birds only have a water bath when its hot?
find out on the bird ecology blog