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Woody Harrelson To Receive Honorary Doctorate For Environmental Activism

This Saturday, Woody Harrelson will become Dr. Harrelson as York University in Toronto bestows an honorary Doctorate on the actor for his work with environmental issues. “Mr. Harrelson’s understanding of why we each need to reduce our ecological footprint is authentic, and his efforts to inspire others to grasp and act on this concept provide [...]

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Alixandra GouldNewsDozens of young people from across southern Ontario trudged through the early morning rain on Friday, Oct. 9, for a full day of environmental activism training at University College. As things gear up for the UN climate change conference in Denmark, the Countdown to Copenhagen Climate Action and Lobbying Training Day aims to teach university and high school students everything they need to know about how to make an impact...

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Mike Roselle Details Years of Environmental Activism in "Tree Spiker"

Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle with Josh Mahan St. Martin's Press 252 pages, $24.99 Mike Roselle is a co-founder of the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network, Earth First!, and the Ruckus Society. Tree Spiker details his life as an environmental activist and outsider agitator. In his acknowledgments, Roselle notes that this book doesn't completely cover...

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How Do You Get a One Arm Hippy Out of a Tree?

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From: cranialrectalresearch.wordpress.com

Throw them a peace sign of course. Many of us have taken notice of the recent rise of people searching for their roots. Berkley, Ca protesters have taken it a step further, and returned to the trees. Protesting the removal of over 40 trees to make way for Memorial Stadium, these throw back tree-huggers are on their way down. I personally like living in green spaces. Nashville doesn’t have enough trees. It lacked a good city planner like Frederic Law Olmtead , who built the park areas in Manhattan, Chicago, and my home town of Louisville. It just makes life more tolerable in the ... Read Full Story

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"Clean Up Your Wrappers"

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From: dailymitzvah.blogspot.com

Nah, it’s not me, I just like the photo! I click on a free “ save the rainforest ” link every day, but forests in the U.S. are being felled as well, and for an easily avoidable reason: packaging for the country’s insatiable appetite for fast food. The Petition Site is hosting “ Stop the 11 Fast Food Junkies ,” in conjunction with the Asheville, NC based Dogwood Alliance . According to the latter, in 2007: the average American ate fast food 150 times, and generated 300 pounds of packaging waste Americans used 15 billion disposable hot beverage cups 32 percent of the U.S. ... Read Full Story

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Change the Margins

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From: dailymitzvah.blogspot.com

This is about as simple as it gets. Would you like to conserve resources, help neutralize Co2 emissions, and cut back on the number of trees felled for throwaway consumer items? Reduce the margins on your printable documents. And urge Microsoft to change its current 1.25" default margin setting to .75". This half-inch difference, multiplied over millions of printed pages each year, can make a measurable difference, as Tamara Krinsky notes on her aptly-titled blog, Change the Margins . (A shout-out to Marty Finestone’s Activity Book for the link .) Today’s mitzvah: Reduce your word processing default margin from 1.25" to 1" or less. ... Read Full Story

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Ecoforestry

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Ecoforestry is the practice regulating the amount of commercial timber taken out of a forest without upsetting the forests ecosystem. A group dedicated to saving our forests through ecoforestry is Ecoforestry Institute. They are dedicated to teaching the public about ecoforestry, and finding new ways to extract resources from our forests while protecting their ecosystems. Click here to go to their official website to learn more about the organization. Also check out their book, Ecoforestry: The Art & Science of Sustainable Forest Use . Read Full Story

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Saturday Photo: Sun and Spring Trees

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The first week in May see an enormous change in the landscape here: the trees leaf out. The first tiny leaflets may appear earlier, and did this year when we had a few days of very warm weather. But as long as we've lived here, I've never seen full-blown leaves cover the trees before May 3. This morning is gorgeously clear and a little cool. A grand day for a Jane's Walk! And a good day to watch the leaves appear. As we used to sing at summer camp: To ope their trunks the trees are never seen. How then do they put on ... Read Full Story

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