As a mother of two young children, I believe in exposing them to a variety of outdoor experiences to help them learn about the world.

The BlogHer contributing editors have been blogging Earth Day all month and doing a really good job of it - and so have the members of our community. If you haven't checked out any of their green friendly, environment friendly posts - you should click into the Green & Eco-Conscious topic area and start reading (comments are cool, too!)

When I was asked to write a post about environmentalists on YouTube and other online video sites, as part of Blogher's continuing "Every Day Is Earth Day" campaign, suddenly I had to think about the whole green movement.

Is global warming a political issue? Yes. Should it be? That's a subject of debate. First, the term "global warming" is itself a matter of debate. Some argue the term "climate change" is more appropriate because global cooling could also be a cause of climate change and because global warming is a politically loaded term. Scientists on both sides of the debate are opposed to the use of global warming and of it becoming the subject of political debate.

The phrase Mitakuye Oyasin translates generally as "All are my relations". It is a declaration that we are not only all connected, but related. We are all family. And all means all, -- people, animals and all of nature. The earth is starting to make this brutally obvious to us. We have managed to do enough damage to create a new consciousness.