Reforestation

Do You COTAP? Alternative Energy for MBAs in Dismal Times

Bryan Gobin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Poverty, Developing Countries, Carbon Offset Credits, Carbon Offsets, Economic Crisis, Poverty Alleviation, Global Warming, Reforestation, Green Nonprofit, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, Impact News
Bryan Gobin

COTAP connects projects to individuals who want to offset their carbon footprint, but have a strong preference that their donations support poor farming communities in developing countries that already experience the brunt of climate change.

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Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Remembered By Mentee

Turnstyle | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Nobel Prize, Impact News, Wangari Maathai, Environment, Green Belt Movement, Kenya, Reforestation, Trees, Impact, Green News
Turnstyle

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Resource Rights, Movement Building, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Local Food, World, Agriculture, Haiti, Peasant Movement of Papaye, Grassroots International, Haiti Aid, Reforestation, World News, Green News
Salena Tramel

Haiti is a prime example of how natural disasters are exacerbated by environmental degradation and centralized development.

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Sharing Strength and Sowing Seeds

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabriel London, Yele Haiti, Haiti Relief, Haiti Earthquake, Partners in Health, Bob Kerrey, Gonaives, Trees for the Future, Timberland, Cat Cora, Billy Shore, Haiti, Reforestation, Wyclef Jean, Haitiblog, World News
Jeffrey B. Swartz

I traveled to Haiti a few weeks ago for the second time since January's earthquake. I'm not so naive that I thought I'd find miraculous progress had ...

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Send a Valentine to Haiti

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Emergency, Microcredit, Micro Credit, Haitian National Coalition for the Environment, Self-Reliance, Self-Determination, Seeds, Haiti Relief Efforts, Goat, Donate to Haiti Earthquake, Help Haiti Earthquake, Organic Gardening, Haiti Earthquake, Self-Sufficiency, Cch, Cchaiti, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Donations, Creole Pig, Help Haiti, Animal Husbandry, Haiti Relief, Heirloom Seeds, Support Haiti, Irrigation, Haiti Volunteer, Haiti, Pig, Community Development, Valentine, Flight to Crisis, Disaster Relief, How to Help Haiti, Community Coalition for Haiti, Protein, Haiti Disaster Relief, Environment, Rabbit, Disaster in Haiti, Haiti Relief Organizations, Reforestation, Bahon, Impact News
Anne Dilenschneider

For over 20 years, CCH members have supported community development in Haiti. One of the ways they do this is by teaching organic gardening, reforestation, and animal husbandry.

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Reviving Rainforests: Your Help is Needed

S. Jacob Scherr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rainforest, Nrdc, Costa Rica, Save the Rainforest, Habitat, Endangered Species, Osa, Reforestation, Impact News
S. Jacob Scherr

Last year, NRDC launched its Revive a Rainforest campaign to restore forests in Costa Rica. With the help and generosity of our many online supporters, the first stage of our Revive a Rainforest campaign was a true success.

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COP15 -- What Really Happened

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Permaculture, Bill Liao, Sudan, cop15, Un, Weforestcom, Draft Copenhagen Accord, Reforestation, Green News
Ellen Snortland

Being an official Party in the COP15 meetings, I sat bewildered as all the agreements we were working on got sidelined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda.

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China's Reforestation Commitment: Imperfect, Important Progress

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Climate Change, Climate Change, Deforestation, Hu Jintao, China, Reforestation, Green News
Jeffrey B. Swartz

The leader of the largest polluting country in the world has now publicly declared accountability and committed to redemption. It deserves to be recognized as meaningful, if imperfect, progress.

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Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soil, Air Quality, River, Bicycling, Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Satoyama, Walking, National Security, Urban Forest, Falcon, Biodiversity, Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, Tokyo, Crime Reduction, Transit, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Elderly, Wall, Yamada Yoriyuki, Forest, Iimura Kazuki, Wilderness, Blur, Sustainable, Places, Plants, Rice, Kobayashi Kenji, Farmer, Energy Independence, Remake, Reforestation, Wildlife, Population, Ginza Bee Project, Street, Cultural, Food Safety, Passion, Pollution, Urban, Culture, Climate Change, Bee, Suzuki Makoto, Post-Industrial, Lot, Roof, Miniaturization, Public Health, City, Habitat, Growth, Public, Ginza Farm, Gardener, Nature, Paddy, Pet, Environment, Firefly, Ginza, Edo, Kajima, Green News
Jared Braiterman

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...

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Greening Hollywood: TreePeople's L.A. 2.0

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonas Brothers, Victoria Principal, Helping Hands, Andy Lipkis, Treepeople, Cisterns, Debby Ryan, Mayor Villaraigosa, Dorothy Green, Jeff Lake, Disney Environmentality, Platinum LEED Building, Robert Iger, Suite Life on Deck, Wildfires, Disney Kids, Disney, Los Angeles Green Schools, Reforestation, Heal the Bay, Greening Hollywood, Fema, California Wildlife Restoration, Red Cross, San Diego Foundation, Green News
Paige Donner

"We're doing a full retrofit of Los Angeles. L.A. 2.0. We're creating a sustainable prototype by retrofitting Los Angeles with a functioning forest."

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