TAKE ACTION! The Bush Administration is rushing out long-term plans that would convert over 2 million acres of Oregon's national forests, with their towering trees, rushing rivers, and superb wildlife habitat, to empty clearcuts. Much of the forests under siege are in the
Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion [search] nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Crest, which contains some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the continent. There are some 20,000 miles...
The No Ecology, No Economic Recovery Ever -- $75K or Bust – Keeping Green Hope Alive, Funding Appeal. Dear Fellow Earth-Lovers, It is time for Ecological Internet's (EI) annual
end-of-year fund-raiser, which provides well over half of our modest yearly budget. We absolutely must raise $75,000 before the end of the year, or our 15 year effort on behalf of the Earth using the Internet comes to an end. With the...
(Seattle, WA) --
Ecological Internet, the world's leading provider of on-line environmental portals and
action opportunities, is pleased to announce
New Earth Rising, a new fiercely biocentric online magazine (e-zine), committed to thought and action to achieve global ecological sustainability. The green publication launches today at
http://www.newearthrising.org/ and free subscriptions can be made at
http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ . The inaugural issue, entitled
Ecological Truth and Transformative Action, features original and diverse green essays...
New research in Royal Society journal
Philosophical Transactions A "suggests that
chopping down forests could accelerate global warming [
ark] more than was thought, and that protecting existing trees could be one of the best ways to tackle the problem." The report quantifies how the release of the chemical
terpene from forest canopies [search] leads to cloud formation that cools the climate. Given ancient forests' massive canopies, the findings further clarify intact forest wildernesses'...