Watch Leonardo DiCaprio's "Before the Flood" in Full, For Free, Right Now

Hope Lady Liberty Can Swim

Just got the latest National Geographic. Makes climate change-fueled sea level rise a lot easier to understand than the IPCC's percentages & certainties, don't you think?

A Friday Afternoon Distraction

For those of you struggling to make it through the final hours of the work day, here's something to keep you from doing that pesky work: National Geographic's Recycle Roundup game.

Planet in Peril & Heroes of Our Planet

A quick heads up on two upcoming events:

From the Bottom Up
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Society
1600 M Street, NW
Member: $15/Non-Member: $18

In the summer of 1997, a college student from East Moline, Illinois, CHAD PREGRACKE, set himself a quixotic goal: to clean up the garbage-infested banks of the Mississippi near his hometown. He started simply, by pushing a wheelbarrow along the riverbank and picking up garbage as he went. Before the summer was over, Chad's quest had caught the attention first of
local media, and later the Associated Press and CNN, and the self-described "river rat" became an unlikely hero, leveraging his newfound celebrity into corporate support for his cause and branching out across America. Now the author of a new National Geographic book, From the Bottom Up: One Man's Crusade to Clean America's Rivers, Pregracke will share his inspiring mission to clean up our waterways.

For more details on this and future events, check out National Geographic's Heroes of Our Planet page!

Also, CNN's Planet in Peril special debuts tonight (Tuesday October 23rd) at 9pm eastern. If you can't catch it tonight, it will rerun tomorrow night at the same time.

Let me know if you catch either of these events! I'm always happy to post your reviews here.

This Weekend: Rock Creek Park BioBlitz

Here's another event worth checking out ... yes, I've been lame-o this week in just posting events without really adding much of anything, but I promise more insightful posts to come this week, including, "Ask The Green Miles: Can You Recycle a Microwave?" Stay tuned.

ROCK CREEK PARK BIOBLITZ
May 18 & 19, 2007, noon to noon

WHAT: Part scientific endeavor, part festival and part outdoor classroom, the Rock Creek Park BioBlitz will officially begin at noon on Friday, May 18, with teams dispersing throughout the 1,783-acre park to begin a nature inventory, observing and recording as many plant and animal species as possible in 24 hours.

Tasks will include wading in the creek to find fish, sweeping nets through fields to catch butterflies, searching the forest floor for hidden wildflowers and catching bats with nets at night.

Meanwhile, activities will continue at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center, base camp for the BioBlitz, where talks by experts, displays, entertainment and children's activities will take place throughout the day and night. The BioBlitz is the latest venture in a long history of partnerships between National Geographic and the National Park Service.

WHEN: Opening ceremony: Friday, May 18, at 11:30 a.m.
BioBlitz: May 18-19 from noon-noon,
Closing ceremony: Saturday, May 19, at noon

WHERE: Rock Creek Park Nature Center
5200 Glover Road, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: bioblitz@ngs.org