If you’re like me, you receive a white pages and yellow pages at least once a year and never use them. I think the last time I used the yellow pages, I was 6 years old and I tried to steal my mom’s car by sitting on a stack of them. These days, I’m too internet-connected to be bothered to flip through these huge books. For better or for worse, I’m much more likely to use Yelp or Google when trying to find a business or service in my community. Now there is an organization that gives you the option to discontinue your Yellow Page delivery. Yellow Pages Goes Green has a sign-up section that allows you to stop getting these deliveries. I haven’t heard any feedback on how well this works, but it’s definitely a good idea.

These days, knee-jerk emotional responses often trump evidence when it comes to debating environmental issues. Fortunately for the rational among us, Lester R. Brown’s Plan B 3.0 (Free PDF Download) is chock full of hard data. The book summarizes the critical environmental challenges facing humankind, and gives plans on how to address them. If you don’t like FREE downloads, or reading on your computer you can also buy it on amazon.

Also, I went to the San Francisco Zoo a few weeks back. Since there were no longer any tigers around to taunt, I capped on the Capybara for a while. As a gesture of good will to Capybara everywhere, we added this Plant a Tree Widget from the Nature Conservancy. Donate and help plant a billion trees in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.