In need of salvation? A whale spotted off the coast of Canada. Photograph: Claude Bouchard/AP
Sometimes environmentalism just creeps up on you. This morning I realised the Guardian Unlimited office was well - perhaps over - stocked with recycling bins when a colleague was forced to remove one of the two by her desk before she could sit down. I also have two within an arm span.
Likewise there is a lot of it on the blogosphere at the moment. Chris Abraham's taunting posts on saving the whale (he thinks the people who do it should save themselves) came as Andrew Sullivan wrote on the US's emerging green-conservative alliance.
From there it was a short step to Gristmill, blog of the irreverent environmental magazine Grist, and the delightful news three new species of slime-mold beetle are to be named Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. Some would even argue environmentalism is sexy, for which read the San Francisco Chronicle's investigation of eco-porn.
"Along with raw, explicit images and videos," it writes of one Norwegian-run website,"[are] facts about the world's forests … naked sylphs share space with graphs of forest loss." It did it for the VHS video recorder and internet, we now wait to see if pornography can propel environmentalism to the big time.
