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May Day Festivals of Flirtation, Fertility, and Sexual Frenzy

Donna Henes | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Marriage, May Day, Puberty, Fertility Goddesses, Adolescence, Ecstasy, Sex, Goddesses, Green, Flowers, Fertility, Sexuality, Trees, May Day 2012, May Pole, May Day Holiday, Mindfulness, May Day Traditions, May Day History, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

This May Day, let us pay tribute to the Earth Mother and Her daughter goddesses of green growth by planting May trees and flowers and then dancing around them to celebrate the lovely, lusty miracle of life.

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Reversing Deforestation Is Complicated; Planting a Tree Is Simple

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Environment, Arbor Day, Trees, Green, Conservation, Sustainability, Green Living, Green News

The vital connection between our forests and our children's future has never been more important, or more threatened, than it is right now.

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PHOTOS: California's Strangest Trees

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: California Trees, California's Strangest Trees, California's Coolest Trees, California Famous Trees, Arbor Day California 2012, Arbor Day, California Trees Photos, Arbor Day California, Slidepollajax, Most Magnificent Trees, Trees, Arbor Day 2012, Los Angeles News

Happy Arbor Day 2012! Plant a tree! Hug a tree! Love a tree! This eco-tastic holiday was founded in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton, an edit...

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Happy Arbor Day... Or Is It?

Huffington Post | Jessica Leader | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Arbor Day 2012 Deforestation, Arbor Day, History of Arbor Day, Arbor Day 2012, Arbor Day Forests, Trees, Video, Arbor Day Deforestation, Arbor Day Rainforests, Environment, Arbor Day History, When Is Arbor Day 2012, Arbor Day 2012 History, Green News

Friday, April 27th 2012 is Arbor Day in the U.S. The national and international celebration started many years ago. In fact, Arbor Day had already bee...

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Meet The Man Who Speaks For The Trees

Jim Robbins | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Environment, Save the Trees, Environment Protection, Protecting the Environment, Trees, Books News

The list of the services that trees offer is far longer than I can enumerate here, and far more than we know. They do all of these things and self-replicate; what more can you ask? And unless we take care of them we will miss them when they are gone.

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Make Every Day Earth Day

Natalie Pace | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Solar, Gulf of Mexico, Reduce, Trees, Brad Pitt, Recycle, Organic Food, Geothermal, Electric Cars, Reuse, Livinghomes, LED Lighting, Oil Spill, Makeitright, Wind Power, #EarthDay, #Green, #CleanEnergy, NataliePace.Com, #BikePower, #BP, Green News

Why Bike Power? There are huge physical and fiscal benefits to biking. With obesity on the rise in U.S. children and one out of every three American adults weighing in obese, biking is one way to get America moving again.

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The Importance of Trees

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya K. Van Rossum, Maria Rodale, Delaware River, Trees, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Green News

by guest blogger, Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper "Trees are dirty and they take my open space." Those were the complaints of a homeowne...

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Iconic American Tree Poised For Comeback, Gene Scientists Say

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Chestnut Tree Gene, William Powell, Science, Suny, Chestnut Tree Fungus, Trees, Video, Plants, Biotechnology, Chestnut Tree, Genes, Plant Biotechnology, Forestry, American Chestnut Tree, Chestnut Trees, Botany, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Science News

By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff Published: 04/16/2012 09:23 AM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet Once plentiful, the American chestnut tree has largely disappear...

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An Homage to Heroes

Anthony Strano | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Trees Oxygen, Gandhi Environment, Forests Trees, Environmental Protection, Trees, Green News

This is just to say a great thank you, to express gratefulness to the green heroes of our planet, the trees who silently and gallantly do their duty. The heroes who are the lungs of Humanity, whose existence facilitates our own. I bow to their sacrifice.

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'Green News Report' - April 12, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Energy, Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Carbon Dioxide, Regulation, Environmentalism, Green News Report, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Tipping Point, Climate Science, Green News, Sustainability, Gop, Natural Gas, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Overfishing, Global Warming, Republicans, Oysters, Offshore Drilling, Ocean Acidification, Beyond Coal Campaign, Coal, Trees, Creationism, Tennessee, Anti-Science, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 'Better l...

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I Talk to the Trees

Honey Seltzer | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Forest Hills-New York, My Ny, Trees, New York News

I love this time of year, and I'm sure most New Yorkers feel as I do. Suddenly the thought of snow is stored away for another year, the freezing wind...

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'Extinct' Tree Species Rediscovered In Africa

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Rare Trees, Video, Erythrina Schliebenii Tree, Coral Tree, Extinct Trees, Rare Coral Tree Species, Endangered Species, New-Research, Trees, Green News

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: Two tree species once feared extinct have been discovered in a threatened coastal forest in the African country of Tanza...

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Plaintiff Trees

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Cormac Cullinan, 13th Amendment, William O. Douglas, Peta, Trees, Green News

Think treating trees as entities with rights is farfetched? Is it more of a stretch than designating corporations and ships as persons for legal purposes? Scientific evidence indicates that trees can communicate with each other. No, they cannot argue about politics.

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Something's Fishy With Mitt Romney

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 03.12.2012

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Rain or shine, Mitt Romney has his way with words. The GOP frontrunner's Monday campaign event in Alabama was shrouded by stormy weather. To escap...

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Becoming the Lorax: Ten Ways to Speak for the Trees

Leda Huta | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Truffula Trees, Plants, Endangered Species, The Lorax, Endangered Species Day, Trees, Wildlife, Green News

The Lorax has a simple message. We must care for our planet. If we don't, we could drive wildlife and plants to extinction.

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Global Warming Gives Trees the Cold Shoulder -- And Frozen Roots

Neil Wagner | Posted 05.06.2012

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While the terms "climate change" and "global warming" are often used interchangeably, scrutiny of the two phrases reveals a cause-and-effect relationship between the two.

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Mitt Romney And Rick Santorum's Bizarre February Boxing Match

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Michigan Primary, Video, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, President Kennedy, Contraception, Separation of Church and State, Barack Obama, Trees, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It's a leap year, which means Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will have to live one more day in February 2012, a month they'd both like to...

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Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Mapping, Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, Maps, Forest, Science, Satellite, Trees, Boston University, Nasa, College, Space, Satellite Imaging, Environment, Lidar, Laser, Science News

Prof. Alan Strahler's current work involves a ground-based LiDAR instrument called ECHIDNA, after the spiky Australian egg-laying mammal.

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Say Goodbye To Frankincense, Study Says

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Video, Frankincense Trees, Christmas, Future of Frankincense, Bosewellia Trees, Frankincense, Trees, Frankincense Production, Green News

Bad news for the three wise men: The future of frankincense production doesn't look promising. A study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology ...

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Millions Of Trees Lost In Texas Drought

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Texas Forest Service, Cedars, Texas Drought 2011, Loblolly Pines, Texas Drought, Ashe Junipers, Post Oaks, Trees, Green News

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- A preliminary state estimate says as many as a half-billion trees died this year across Texas from the drought persisting ac...

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 2

James Elkins | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Religion, Glasgow, Watercolor, Trees, Fine Art, Manuscript, Art Criticism, Mysteries, Puzzle, Nature, Painting, Art History, Alchemy, Artists, Art, Philosophy, Hallucinations, Arts News, Mysticism, Arts News

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

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What Heaven Looks Like

James Elkins | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Glasgow, Philosophy, Alchemy, Manuscript, Artists, Watercolor, Painting, Hallucinations, Trees, Mysticism, Religion, Art, Art History, Art Criticism, Puzzle, Nature, Mysteries, Fine Art, Arts News

I discovered an amazing, mysterious manuscript in Scotland. It's a little book with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

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International Year of the Forests Photography Fellowship (PHOTOS)

Josh Birnbaum | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Photography, Wood, Photographers, International Year of Forests, Environment, International Year of the Forest, Landscapes, Forests, Trees, Slidefreestyle, Exposure, Nature Photography, Green News

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A Snow Man for Halloween?

Liz Neumark | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Central Park, Trees, Occupy Wall Street, Slidepollajax, New York Central Park, Central Park Trees, Central Park Trees Winter, Occupy Wall Street Halloween, New York News

There is a pair of nearly identical trees that stand on the east side of Central Park's Great Lawn; l named them the Sister Trees. I love these trees and to me, the notion that they are intertwined, like sisters, has endeared them to me.

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"Branching Out"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Skylight, Stamford Advocate, Handsaw, Insurance, Chainsaw, Humor, Lumberjack, Nature, Paul Bunyan, Fireplace, Fire, Oak, Stamford, Trees, Comedy News

For weeks, I had asked the perplexing and ridiculous question: if a tree falls in my backyard, and I am there to hear it, will it land on my head?

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