A couple of third-tier items, the greenness of which may be only in the eye of the beholder:

In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, about the bird-lover in Galveston, TX, who shot a feral cat that was stalking some very rare piping plovers on the beach, and more generally about feral cats and their supporters, we learned that the (not exactly illustrious) actress Tippi Hedren is one of those cat-friends:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02cats-v--bird ...

The not unamusing irony in the context of cats vs. birds, one which did not escape the article's author, is that Hedren's most famous role, no doubt, was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, in which her character is first attacked by a seagull, and later is almost drowned (or something like that) in a mob of sparrows.

(To create the effect of an onslaught of birds, Hitchcock is said to have had his crew pour boxes of birds out directly in front of the cameras.  Presumably that sort of thing could not be done nowadays; movie-viewers rightly demand to be assured that "no animals were harmed in the making of this picture.")

Also, one of my very favorite singers and musicians, Emmylou Harris, received some acclaim in the latest issue of the Humane Society of the US's magazine, for becoming seriously involved in sheltering homeless dogs (mostly) and cats (a few).  She has been working with the Nashville Humane Society, apparently, and with the local PETA people.  But more important, she has started her own shelter, called Bonaparte's Retreat: still smallish, but a lovely commitment nonetheless.

http://www.emmylou.net

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

I mean what an inconvenient way of making a man feel like his work didn't appease the Grist's gang...Golly gee whiz guys.

You know, he W A S our President for like 2 hours....wait, this is an American column right?

Marines say OORAH Soldiers say HOAHH Airmen say HORAHH Sailors don't have a saying. We have big freakin' guns that can blow $hit up 20 miles away.