On a completely un-warming topic, happy mother's day EMs!

My sister's bloke was out for the count with man-flu over Mum's day. For those uninitiated, man-flu is the type of flu only a man gets - puts you in a deep slumber, oblivious to the cries of children, unable to get yourself even a glass of water.

We'll be sending the Happier Meals Campaign off to Ronald in the next week or so, so if you haven't signed it - go to it now!

Sign here

I just attended a rally against warming of nearly 800,000 people. Leonardo Di Caprio was there.

AND I didn't have to drag the kids into the city on the train.

Stop Global Warming is a global rally on the net. Ok, so it's a petition like the ones we have here, but it's a goody - especially when nearly a million people have joined.

Waste not want not, I used to hear that so often from my grandies when I was little. I was just considering what to do with the (had it) pyjamas my son has grown out of, and it popped into my head.

The Oz treasurer Peter Costello announced in the Budget today an $8,000 rebate for homes to put in solar panels.

And you always thought beer just dimmed the ole lightbulb...

In an exciting innovation, Foster's will be creating electricity from its brewing.

Avaaz is an effective world-wide lobby site that run email campaigns like ours. They have a good one going for climate changers like us - Avaaz.

When Cyclone Larry ripped through Innisfail, FNQ last year, it left behind a legacy that had less to do with bananas and global warming than it had to do with the human spirit.

Peace Mitchell, an active EarthMum and teacher, lost her pawpaw farm in the devastation. “That first month following Larry is a blur – no phones, no electricity – I think we were barely holding things together.”

Poor little pets. Kids are the ones who stand to lose the most out of our mismanagement of the planet, but they are also the ones who feel like they can do the least to save it!

It's important to be reassuring as Fiona the Knife points out, but it also helps to do something about it. Action is a less scary state than inaction.

We had some cracking entries in the EarthMums colouring competition. Such beautiful lines, gorgeous colours and some surprising use of glitter!

Alas, there can only be ten winners... well, make that 15! The onerous task of judging was left to the original and glamourous Miss Lou Lou who supplied the prize of ten try-out lessons of any style at her Glittery Tapping Wonderland studios in Mordialloc. She was so overwhelmed by the strength of the field, she surprised us all by announcing she would be giving 15 lessons away - thank you, Miss Lou Lou!