Last night at the SF Net Tuesday, Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons, gave a short presentation on Cultural Environmentalsm and the role Creative Commons plays as a cultural environmentalist organization.  I've always thought Creative Commons was cool, but never really go the big vision until last night.The way Mike described it, a movement to preserve Culture is the human equivalent of a movement to preserve the  Environment.  Creative Commons provides licenses to lower the legal barriers to effectively preserving our Cultural Environment.

You can see slides from his presentation at http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/netsquared

He also pointed to some resources for people to get involved in Cultural Environmentalism:

• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
• Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
• http://creativecommons.org
• http://creativecommons.org/worldwide
• http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative
• Local events -- http://creativecommons.org/salon