published April 3, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Brian via flickr In the winding path of my commitment to environmentalism there are a group of people who I always return to for inspiration. Each occupying a slightly different part of the green sphere, their dedication, longevity and commitment (we're talking 25+ years for everyone in the slideshow you're about to view) reminds me that though we ...
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published April 3, 2009 and has No Comments
Image by David Hockney David Hockney, the famous British artist, has been painting landscapes of a small forest over the past year. Located near his home in Yorkshire, he found the two hundred year old copse at a crossing of two roads and set out to paint it in each of the four seasons. He depicted it in its ...
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published March 31, 2009 and has No Comments
This beautiful video requires us to take just a moment to appreciate some fantastic animation, and the lifecycle of a seed. ...
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A Lifecycle Reminder: The Seed (Video)
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published March 27, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via VirtualErn The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona has sent out a warning about the unsustainable harvesting of American turtles to feed Asian diners. They're urging several mid-western and southern states to implement a ban on turtle hunting to help give the numbers time to bounce back....
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US Turtles Being Unsustainably ...
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published March 26, 2009 and has No Comments
Image from bestpriceart.com Natural Collection , the award-winning on-line website for ecological and fair trade products, started a community-based blog called " Ooffoo" . It is a place to exchange ideas, sell things and " to network, communicate, help, advise and share." Oofoo held a first, and soon to be annual, Ooffoo Laureate . They asked readers to submit ...
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Wikipedia Researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia have determined that the Internet can be used for a whole lot of untapped information mining - including detecting possible environmental disasters....
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Internet Can Be Used to Detect Early Warnings of Eco Changes
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