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Plant for the Planet
Environment  (tags: GoodNews, forests, trees )

Lee
- 314 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
The United Nations Environment Program has launched a major worldwide campaign to plant 7 billion trees by the end of 2009.
Special Forest Products: Commercial Harvest and Sale and Free Use.
Environment  (tags: Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, Culture, Society, environment, nature, humans, freedoms, ethics, humans, law, news, sadness, government, nature )

Kat
- 348 days ago - edocket.access.gpo.gov
SUMMARY: The Department is issuing this final rule to regulate the sustainable free use, commercial harvest, and sale of special forest products and forest botanical products from National Forest System lands.
TAKE ACTION; December 18, 2008 - Bolivia's Amazon Riches to Be Plundered for Oil
Environment  (tags: This is a protest, not a petition, sending emails to many real decision mak )

Marieemma
- 354 days ago - ecoearth.info
President Morales must be encouraged to live up to his grand rhetoric, and end his government's hurried measures to decimate massive indigenous rainforest protected areas and their biodiversity and climate values, in a manner eerily reminiscent ....
Plants 'More Important Than Ever' to Reduce Impact of Global Warming
Environment  (tags: culture, humans, society, climate, climate-change, endangered, conservation, protection, nature, habitat, globalwarming, energy, world, water, trees, science, research, pollution, destruction, wildlife, forests, environment, animals )

Kim
- 354 days ago - medindia.net
According to a report by BBC News, this fact has been stressed upon by Professor Stephen Hopper, the director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, England
Animal Rights - Sign Petition: Toxic Plastics Killing Marine Life
Environment  (tags: Sea turtles mistake clear plastic bags f )

Marieemma
- 356 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii. The patch has been growing, ......
Britain Pledges $149.3 Million for People in Developing Countries to Live Among Trees
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, trees, forests, ecosystems )

Yamu
- 375 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
The £100m drive to save the world's forests aims to pay people in developing countries to live among the trees rather than cut them down.
There Are Ways To Create More Water To Solve Water Crisis
Environment  (tags: water, environment, goodnews, Sustainabililty, suffering )

Chris
- 377 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
Of a population of roughly 6.1 billion, more than 1 billion lack access to potable water. About 5 million people die each year from poor drinking water, poor sanitation, or a dirty home environment -- often resulting from water shortage.
Rainbow Over Blue Ice [PIC]
Environment  (tags: nature, world, environment )

Ivica
- 380 days ago - nature-spot.com
Beautiful picture of rainbow over glacier in Alaska...
Beautiful Pictures From Hamersley Range, Australia
Environment  (tags: nature, wildlife )

Ivica
- 386 days ago - nature-spot.com
The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara, Western Australia. The range runs from the Fortescue River in the northeast, 460km south.
The Man Who Saved The Ongii River From Total Destruction
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, GoodNews, energy, protection, pollution, politics )

Bisane
- 384 days ago - yellowsandblues.com
When our beautiful rural lifestyle, the rivers, livestock was facing threat from the miners, it was a simple herdsman's initiative that compelled the government to introduce new legislation to stem destructive mining.
 
 
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