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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
 Elephants are majestic creatures who are highly intelligent, complex, social, sensitive and even humorous. They form intricate family structures and grieve for their dead. In the wild, elephants are migratory, walking 30 to 50 miles each day — a disturbing fact for elephants faced with life in a zoo.
Carol Buckley worked in tandem with elephants for twenty years in television, motion pictures and circus shows until, in 1995, she began to fulfill the migratory dream for elephants restrained by captivity. She founded the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, a 2700-acre reserve that is now home to more than 20 Asian and African elephants rescued or retired from zoos and circuses.
Good News Network member Janet Locke suggested we needed to write about this organization and its residents, who are not paraded before the public — even in a humane way; instead, "they are encouraged to live like elephants":
The founders, Carol and her partner Scott Blais, recently agreed to rescue eight circus elephants that had been chained by two feet of length in an Illinois barn for two solid years. |
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Read more... [Room to Move, a Sanctuary for Retired, Rescued Zoo Elephants]
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Saturday, 22 April 2006 |
 Earth Day Special — The 21st annual Great American Cleanup is in full swing, mobilizing millions of volunteers to clean, beautify and improve their communities each spring. Last year 2.4 million volunteers collected a record breaking 208 million pounds of litter and debris; recycled hundreds of tons of material; planted 4.2 million flowers; cleaned 176 miles of roads; and cleaned 10,250 miles of waterways and shorelines.
On March 2, more than 750 volunteers from all over the country descended on Biloxi, Miss., for the official kickoff to the 2006 national campaign, launching a full day of Hurricane Katrina Restoration activites. Volunteers removed mounds of storm debris and also planted grass, flowers and oak trees to aid in coastal restoration. From the Biloxi Town Green to the Purple Heart Memorial and Edgewater Mall beach, one main objective was achieved; to make a visible difference in this community in one day.
It's not too late to volunteer for the Great America Cleanup! It runs until May 31. Consult this page for a list of U.S. states and territories, and even other countries (Canada and South Africa) that are participating. |
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Thursday, 20 April 2006 |
 EARTH DAY SPECIAL — Imagine miles and miles of desolate savannah in South America, without a tree or bird or child in sight, a veritable no-man's land. For Paolo Lugari, this was the perfect place to implement a vision — and prove a point: if a sustainable community could be created in such adverse environmental, social and political conditions as Eastern Colombia, it could be done anywhere on the planet.
"Paolo, a young man who was home schooled by his father, imagined that this desolate region where he spotted a seagull far from any coast, could one day become an inspiration for sustainable development."
By 1992, Paulo's environmental research center, Las Gaviotas, had finished planting 8,000 Hectares (30 square miles) of Caribbean pine trees in a savannah that had been unproductive for centuries. The rebirth of a rainforest in soil so acidic and inhospitable as to measure a pH of 4, was considered impossible by experts in academia, but thanks to the innovative use of mycorrhizal fungi, which acts as the saliva for the tree, the forestation was successful. More than just successful, it initiated economic opportunities and unleashed a chain reaction of positive effects that surprised even the initiators of the program... New tropical plants emerged, water was now abundant and products from the forest sustained the employment of many workers.
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Read more... [Transforming a Barren Savannah to a Tropical Rainforest: The Remarkable story of Las Graviotas]
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
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In California, where one-eighth of Americans reside, we have a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature moving in the same direction — and with broad public support — on the issue of Global Warming.
Last week top environmental, political, and business leaders held a "Climate Action Summit" that galvanized support for limits on ozone-depleting chemical emissions. A law may be in place as early as September that caps not utilities, like caps announced in eight northeastern states in January, but to landfills, and oil refineries, as well. The Christian Science Monitor has more.
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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
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At least 1,000 homes will be open for residents maybe as soon as 2010, all powered entirely by renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic panels, wind turbines and the burning of waste. The mayor of London made the announcement today and GreenPeace will play a role. |
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