Have you ever wanted to leave a comment about a specific sentence on a web page but had not platform to do it on? Have you ever come across a picture or a graph that was missing the bigger picture and had no way to communicate that information to a wider audience? Fret no more, your solution may be here (along with $1,000).

Reframe It was designed to become a natural extension of the web by creating a space for you to engage the material and share your thoughts with a small community, or a large one. What the folks at Reframe It are trying to do is transform the public web by creating a virtual margin alongside any web page on which users can post comments to be shared with other users and read what others have written. By creating this space on the web, newspapers, bloggers, companies, governments, non-profits and individuals are able to hold one another accountable for the information they convey and withhold from the public.

Got it so far? Now here’s the good part. [Read more]

The fourth installment of Stephen Colbert’s 35,000 part series: “Better Know a Lobby.”  In this installment, Stephen talks to Carl Pope of the Sierra Club - “The fightin’ Treehuggers!”

The four-day ROTHBURY music and camping festival this weekend at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Michigan is being promoted as a “cultural assembly; one where music fans, artists and progressive thinkers gather to celebrate much more than music.” Not only is the event featuring some of the biggest names in music, but it is also featuring some of the sharpest thinkers in the environmental movement.

And because I’ll be covering the event for the Green Options Media Network, and reporting back all week, I was able to score a few extra tickets that I’d like to share with someone. But I can’t just give them away, so go to Planetsave and in 100 words or less answer the following question:

What is right, and what is wrong, with the environmental movement today?

Yes. Yes it does…. Earth Day has the potential to be a powerful tool for education, discussion, & the mobilization of concerted political action on behalf of the environment. Earth Day could even be a national holiday, recognized with all of the rights & privileges associated with the title.

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Photo: Birmingham 1972 (National Archives)