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Not every Seattlest is in the clubs all night. One of us, at least, stayed home to catch Wyatt Cenac's straight-faced field report from socialist Sweden; we were rewarded by watching him whip out a jar of Baconnaise and describe this Seattle-based concoction as the triumph of American capitalism. A fine end to Earth Day, wouldn't you say?

EARTH DAY: The UW's Green Coalition invites you out to the campus today for some live music, a gallery of environmental art, a zero-emissions electric car show, a social on the Lake Washington waterfront, and a presentation about sustainable business practices from Jerry Heinlen of Yakima Products to be followed by the movie The Eleventh Hour. Don't worry--there's more earthy doings on tap if you can't make that.

Well, fine Earth, be like that, don't celebrate your own day with weather like this. All around town, we are celebrating your day by bicycling, expo-ing and e-billing. At least there could have been some sun. Sheesh! If you have a case of Earth Day laziness, here are more green tips and tricks to reduce your carbon foot or "cookprint."

• While we were all basking in the sun, these local--crazy--folks were running amuck in Boston.
• We were good and didn't prompt any 4/20 talk, but that didn't stop former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper, who dives into the pot vs. alcohol argument on Huffington Post.
• You may recall the mysterious explosions on Alki earlier this year, which turned out to be a secretive Justin Timberlake production. Well, tonight the reality TV insanity continues as his new game show, The Phone premieres on MTV.

, after having questioned the wisdom of destroying so much parking down at Seattle Center, we've been more and more attuned to the environment and trying to figure out how to decrease our "carbon footprint," all the more apropos given that today's Earth Day. But this morning, we received the following email from a friend of Seattlest who works in the environmental policy field:

It's Earth Day. Down here in the Seattlest news room we thought that, along with giving up meat, disposable coffee cups and plastic bags, we'd offer some unsolicited advice about how you can help the planet the other 364 days of the year, too. But, when a friend who happens to be a real live Seattle native and an inveterate bike commuter approached us with a better idea abut spreading the gospel of bike commuting, we figured why not let Dayna do it for us?

TONIGHT at Meany Hall, it's "Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth," a two-hour multi-media presentation designed to freak your climatological shit out. It stars the world-famous paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and environmental activist: Dr. Richard Leakey. Shazam! (What? We never get to say "Shazam"!) Author of The Sixth Extinction, Dr. Leakey will talk "about our impact on the environment"...um, no, he's gonna open up a can of knowledgifying whup-ass is what.

The Tacoma News Tribune had their big Seattle cruise season preview a few weeks ago: 191 cruise ship calls, 3,000 busloads of passengers from the airport to the cruise terminals, 14,082 cruise industry jobs created in 2005, 1 article we couldn’t get completely through. Harpers index it ain’t. Unless this is it, we’re still waiting for the Seattle dailies to publish their yearly love poems to the cruise industry.

THAT STARBUCKS "I WAS A CHILD SOLDIER" GUY: At twelve, Ishmael Beah found himself fleeing rebels, wandering from village to village. At thirteen, he was a soldier in Sierra Leone, hooked on drugs and capable of things he would never have imagined. Now, rehabilitated and living in the U.S., he tells his story in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, in an attempt to raise awareness of the child soldier phenomenon.

Because we don't go out on school nights and we need to plan...

Earth Day may be bullshit, but Group Health's Bike Commute Challenge has got some brains behind it. They've realized that asking people to do something good for themselves and/or the environment for just one measly day doesn't do much for either party involved. Participants don't get a longer-term perspective on how their activity of choice might be enjoyable and make them feel better, and one day does not a better environment make, in truth.

They need to all be Earth Days.