Save the Honey Bee
Around 25 percent of our honey bees died in the Colony Collapse Disorder of recent years. Loss of these valuable insects can have a profound ecological implication to our planet and drastically affect pollination-dependent crops. According to the North America Pollinator Protection program, nearly 80 percent of the world's crops require pollination.
San Fransisco State University is promoting the Great Sunflower Project, and needs your help. They want you to plant sunflowers, observe and document the behavior of the bees that visit the blooms, and report back to them your findings. They'll even send you a free packet of sunflower seeds for your efforts!
Although Great Sunflower Project participants don't have to know anything about bees or sunflowers, it's still a good idea to read a bit about them, and you can find lots of helpful resources at GRPL.
Haagen Daz, makers of extraordinary ice cream, also has a green project to help the honey bees. They've designed an awesome interactive honey bee display with a feature that lets you "Create and Send a Bee," in which you design a digital honey bee and send it to family and friends. Find out about it here.