A twitter friend, baratunde just sent this to me. If you care about saving the planet from irreversible damage, make yourself heard TODAY. Al Gore is testifying to Congress on global warming tomorrow, Wednesday, March 21st. He will hand deliver your message of support for immediate legislation. Click on Hurricane Katrina now and take 2 minutes to fill out the card. Here is my personal message:

The best solutions to reversing global warming are also the simplest: 1) Increase the federal gasoline tax 10 cents per year incrementally over the next 10 years as Dr. N. Gregory Mankiw suggests. You can keep your tax revenue even if you reduce paryoll taxes by the same amount 2) Ban incandescent light bulbs. 3) Invest in public transportation instead of building new roads.

You have to do it today since Mr Gore is testifying to Congress tomorrow.

NASA photo of Hurricane Katrina sea surface temperatures

Why are you still reading? Fill out the card now!

My family lives in Slidell, LA. Fortunately they are safe now. Here are some videos shot by a film crew from Baton Rouge, LA.

August 29 Slidell report:
http://media.swagit.com/s/wbrz/The_Advocate/08292005-39.html
(you can probably stop when they return to the studio after the
interview with the couple, it’s pretty long…)

08/29 I-10 bridge toward Slidell:
http://media.swagit.com/s/wbrz/The_Advocate/08302005-6.html

08/29 Slidell: http://media.swagit.com/s/wbrz/The_Advocate/08302005-5.html

here are the rest if you want to browse more:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/wbrz/video_index.shtml

someone put the Google Map API to good use which allows users to flag locations and post information about neighborhood conditions

read more | digg story

Look at these photos and consider donating some spare change:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/katrina/show/

Click here to support the American Red Cross disaster relief fund for Hurricane Katrina victims