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TheTreeGeek.com to Celebrate Online Grand Opening from Earth Day through Arbor Day
Virtual Strategy
April 23rd, 2012
In the hope it will lead to healthier trees and a better planet, the certified arborists and certifiable “tree geeks” who are the producers of a new tree care site, TheTreeGeek.com, have announced they are celebrating their new site’s official launch with a week-long grand opening event from Earth Day, Sunday April 22nd, to Saturday, April 28th – the day after Arbor Day.
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Loading ...Activist Beat on the Goldman Environmental Prize
Uprising Radio
April 19th, 2012
On Monday night, six grassroots environmental activists received the Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony in San Francisco. In addition to the international recognition these activists deserve, they also got $150,000 each to continue their important work.
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...The Healing Touch Of The Wild
Positive News
April 12th, 2012
There is something therapeutic about spending time outdoors and practitioners of wilderness therapy place this at the very heart of their work.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...A Remarkable Grassroots Revitalization Matures and Thrives in Boston
Switchboard NDRC
April 2nd, 2012
If I had to pick a single story from the 35 that we profiled in depth as the most compelling of them all, it would be that of the Dudley Street neighborhood, about two miles south of Boston’s downtown and one of the city’s poorest. While our book celebrated a number of newer and more upscale neighborhoods with smart, green features, we thought Dudley Street was a great model precisely because it was not new or affluent
Read More (+12 rating) Loading ...A City That Runs On Itself
Our World 2.0
March 29th, 2012
What happens when you ask 14 landscape architecture and three planning students to cut the energy use and consequent greenhouse gas (GHG) production in the city by at least 80 percent — by 2050? How is this to be done?
Read More (+8 rating) Loading ...The Bear Who Wouldn’t Budge
Earthfire Institute 
April 20th, 2012
We took Huckleberry Bear Bear for a walk.
He sniffed, explored, rustled in the grass. He had a glorious time. Then it happened . . .
Huckleberry Bear Bear wanted a nap.
(+3 rating) Loading ...How Biking Benefits Everyone
Yes! Magazine
April 12th, 2012
Just because someone doesn’t bike, doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from cities and towns making biking a priority.
Read More (+5 rating) Loading ...Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability
Science Daily
April 10th, 2012
In the search for sustainability of the ocean’s fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past.
Read More (+4 rating) Loading ...Hope for Oceans: New Global Partnership Brings Powerful Forces Together
Rare Conservation
April 2nd, 2012
Rare is proud to announce its participation in a powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests that are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation and habitat loss.
Read More (+9 rating) Loading ...Welsh citizens to protect rainforest the size of Wales
Positive News
March 28th, 2012
A new Welsh charity is bringing the nation together to help conserve an area of rainforest the size of Wales – two million hectares or 7,722 sq. miles
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