Study: 90 Percent Of Endangered Species Recovering On Time

Common Dreams    Yobo Member
May 21st, 2012

Study: 90 Percent Of Endangered Species Recovering On Time

Wolves, Whooping Cranes, Panthers, Sea Lions Among Species in All 50 States Improving Because of Endangered Species Act

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Empire State Building Cuts Energy Use 20%

CNN Money   
May 9th, 2012

Empire State Building Cuts Energy Use 20%

The Empire State Building is on an energy diet. The hulking building, a symbol of American power and, to some, excess, has cut its energy use by 20%.

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Climate Leadership From American Colleges and Universities

Huffington Post   
April 30th, 2012

Climate Leadership From American Colleges and Universities

In 2007, a small group of visionary college and university presidents gathered to form the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Five years later they have achieved some remarkable results.

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Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

PJ Star   
April 27th, 2012

Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World

For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.

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New England’s Lack Of Violence Reaps Economic Benefits

Chicago Tribune   
April 25th, 2012

New England’s Lack Of Violence Reaps Economic Benefits

The rural New England states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire are the most peaceful U.S. states, a distinction that gives them an economic advantage over the most violent, including Louisiana, Tennessee and Nevada.

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Birthing Justice: Our Hope Is In Our Struggle – Reclaiming Life And Land In Honduras

Other Worlds    Yobo Member
May 10th, 2012

Birthing Justice: Our Hope Is In Our Struggle – Reclaiming Life And Land In Honduras

While the April 17 action in Honduras made international headlines, it was just a snapshot of a much larger national movement for land reform that is rarely reported. Documented or not, it’s making waves that can’t be ignored.

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May Is National Bike Month: PeopleForBikes.org Urges Americans to Get Out and Ride, Sign Pledge for Better Bicycling

Sacramento Bee   
May 8th, 2012

May Is National Bike Month: PeopleForBikes.org Urges Americans to Get Out and Ride, Sign Pledge for Better Bicycling

PeopleForBikes.org, the movement dedicated to improving the future of bicycling, is celebrating May as National Bike Month. With longer, milder days, May is a perfect time to recognize bicycling for the multitude of benefits it provides – improving America’s health, economy and environment.

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George Lakey: Nonviolent Warrior

Peace news   
April 30th, 2012

George Lakey: Nonviolent Warrior

Co-founder of the ground-breaking radical community, the Movement for a New Society, which laid the basis for many of the facilitation and decision-making systems in common activist use today, George Lakey has spent much of the last 40 years training people – 1,500 people on five continents.

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Mentoring Program Helps Placer’s At-Risk Youth

Roseville   
April 26th, 2012

Mentoring Program Helps Placer’s At-Risk Youth

Program aims to keep kids from entering the juvenile justice, child welfare systems

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The Bear Who Wouldn’t Budge

Earthfire Institute    Yobo Member
April 20th, 2012

The Bear Who Wouldn’t Budge

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.

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