Carbon offsets offer a chance to feel better about ourselves, but how much to they help the environment? In practice, there are significant problems in which projects they support, and how they affect our long-term environmental policies.

A new study linking decreasing lead blood levels to increasing SAT scores isn’t particularly news, but it can certainly make for some interesting questions pertaining to education.

Artifex Open Your Eyes Shirt, $ 17 
I came across Artifex Shirts via the Fantastic Bonanza blog. Artifex Shirts is anti-sweatshop, prints on organic cotton and donates portions of their sales to help out good ole Mother Earth. Specifically, $3 from every shirt sold is donated to Native Energy to offset 500 pounds of CO2 emissions. An additional $6 from the sale of the Windmill shirts is given to the Owl Feather War Bonnet Wind Farm to offset 1,000 pounds of CO2 emissions.

Artifex Windmill Shirt, $17