Washington, D.C.-The number of "microborrowers" worldwide-people participating in the rapidly growing field of microfinance-increased by 17 percent in 2006, benefiting both communities and the environment, according to the latest Vital Signs Update released by the Worldwatch Institute.
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Carlin's line about “How we gonna save the planet when we haven’t learned how to care for each other yet” haunts this caring island as we mourn our Mayor, too. As Carlin says, "he was just here."
Orangutan Island premieres in the UK on 26th May on Animal Planet. Click on this link to help.www.savetheorangutan.co.uk
The Argentine Minister of the Environment (and activist) Romina Piccolotti talks about "environmental discrimination" -- the connections between global warming and social and economic justice.
From New York to Costa Rica, from the first national park in China to a marine protected area in the South Pacific, these are the best of the best, the conservation success stories with the most impact for nature and people in 2007.
The best of more than 11,000 images shot by leading photographers. From Tibet to Tanzania, from hissing alligators to quivering zebras, Natural Light opens a brilliant window into our planet and the astonishing animals and places that The Nature Conservancy works to save every day.
Gore's acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize and a recent press conference interview were both enlightening of his views: "We face a true planetary emergency.
Remember those old sci-fi movies in which future humans would “terraform†Mars (or some more distant planet) to make it more like the relative paradise of our blue-green Earth? Well, it turns out we’re already honing those terraforming skills, and they’re aimed at making our own planet more inhabitable.
I know there's a lot of talk on the internet about "how to produce the free energy", "how to capture it" or simply how to lower or eliminate your monthly bills (electricity, gas, heating). In fact, the energy harvested here, on this site, doesn't come for free. It simply exists in space and time and we just find ways of collecting it with some price. What could be such price? What could be the price of denying that we all have to pay something one day and our children will breath a cleaner air than we do? What could be the "reasonable" price?
EarthE money, EarthE kisses, EarthE discounts and EarthE handshakes: these are some of fun eco rewards that people and businesses are using to honor others for taking eco actions to protect our planet, according to EarthE.org . (EarthE is pronounced earthy.)
