Considering the energy many of us are feeling this week, some sort of shift is certainly in motion. What we do with that momentum is now up to us.

Let’s face it, $700 billion is too large a number and too widespread an issue for any single mind to wrap its thoughts around. I'm curious about the karmic effects of this crisis, looking for guidance not on how to budget my bank account but on dealing with the people around me on a daily basis.

The U.S. division of Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher, has vowed that, by 2010, a third of the paper it uses to print books will be recycled stock. The company now uses just three percent recycled paper, but plans to spend millions of dollars to increase that number to 30 percent over the next four years. According to Random House, that will save 550,000 trees each year.