I'm very inspired by the movement to stop tar sands oil drilling, and the 2,000 people currently in or traveling to DC to risk arrest trying to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. I am so grateful for these activists, we need them (and you)!

Find out more about the campaign against the tar sands here.

It's enough to make me hope we can turn this thing around. Great job GetUp! and the whole Australian climate movement.

As I've been saying ever since I got here: your gas is cheap! Too cheap (because it's heavily subsidized by the government, natch). And now I have inforgraphical evidence, thanks FlowingData:

Despite not eating it (or beef) myself I'm shocked at how low the consumption of lamb is in the US. I'm sure this would look different in Australia. Chicken's inexorable rise has been recently halted, I wonder why?

H/t Chartporn.

An illuminating graph from Treehugger:

In his State of the Union Obama mentioned ending subsidies to carbon-intensive energy and shifting it to more sustainable production. Here is how the money is currently distributed:

From SolveClimateNews.com.

From TheBigWild.org.

eARTh, a project by 350.org, inspired artists around the world to express their hopes for a clean energy future in art works big enough to be photographed from space. You can see more of these incredible images here.