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Videos
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Christmas Trees | Kyle Crawford | State Your Change
At the Eco Gift Festival in Santa Monica, CA, Causecast asks attendees for the changes they would like to see in the world. Kyle Crawford responds.
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How to grow sustainable communities.
Articles
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"Tree Hugger" Is Taken To New Extremes At UC Berkeley
When UC Berkeley tried to cut down a group of Redwood Trees they were met with protests - protests that lasted for over 21 months. When Berkeley tried to cut... -
Transpiration is the the process that trees use to pull water up from the soil, up to their highest branches. This process is known by scientists but not ent...
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Fight Global Warming By Planting Trees on Your iPhone
GoPlanit’s new iPhone application, Pet Earth, is a virtual pet game that will donate a portion of its proceeds to planting more trees worldwide.
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Koalas in danger of extinction as rising carbon levels poison eucalyptus trees
The koala is under threat from rising levels of carbon that are effectively poisoning their only food source, the eucalyptus tree.
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Peru Planting 512,820 Trees a Day to Fight Climate Change
Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has launched an ambitious project. The goal: plant 40 million trees in 3 months to help deter the effects of climate change.
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Biomass: Can Renewable Power Grow on Trees?
Biomass, which is essentially trees and grasses as well as forestry & agricultural waste, is burned as a source of both heat and electricity all over the world.
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Brazil's New Plan to Fight Climate Change: Coal and Oil Companies Must Plant Trees
In an unusual plan to combat climate change, the Brazilian government will require coal and oil companies to plant thousands of trees.
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DisneyNature Makes Good on Tree Planting Idea by Partnering With Nature Conservancy
DisneyNature had a plan to plant a tree for each person who bought a ticket to their Earth movie.
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In 1994, 800,000 were brutally murdered in the village of Tutsis in Rwanda. Years later Lily Yeh, an American artist came into the village and simply asked t...
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The Average Person Receives Around 560 Pieces Of Junk Mail A Year
GreenDimes has created a service where they help eliminate the amount of junk mail you receive. They released some frightening statistics: The average perso... -
Brazil Looks To Protect Itself From AIDS
Have you ever wondered where condoms come from? Well in Brazil they’ve started making them from rubber trees in the rainforest.
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Genetic Testing: Should You Be Tested?
The decision to be tested for the genetic mutations that dramatically raise a woman’s risk of the disease is a fraught one.
Events
- Community Tree Planting Event Location: Highland Park Recreation Center 6150 Piedmont Ave Los Angeles, CA
- Music for Relief and Tree People Tree Planting Location: Stetson Ranch Park in Sylmar, CA
- Music for Relief and Tree People Volunteer Opportunity Location: Stetson Ranch Park, Lake View Terraces, California 91342
- Tree Planting - Studio City Location: Studio City, CA 91604
- Sundance Film Festival and Abolish Slavery Location: Park City, Utah
- Sundance Film Festival and Abolish Slavery Location: Park City, Utah
- Help beautify the Wilshire Center and Koreatown Location: 3191 West 4th Street, Los Angeles CA, 90020
- UnWINEd with LA's BEST Location: Fairmont Miramar Hotel: 101 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401
- Food Forward on Veteran's Day Location: Atwater Village
People
- Harmonious Torrance, CA
- Jimmy.James Edmonton, ALBERTA
- Jack Healey
- ColinDC9 Los Angeles, CA
- Aliadawn Santa Monica, CA
- grosenthal Claremont, CA
- KarenMurphy
- Burning Tree Project Anaheim, CA
- sandy42 Richardson, TX
- Tree of Life
Blog posts
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Effects of global warming on trees
To read more on this eye opening topic and how it further effects us and the rest of the environment go here: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/global-warming-trees-4701220...
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I saw it will you? It's an easy way to plant a tree!
So I asked some friends to go attend opening of Disney's "Earth" movie last week in honor of Earth Day. It felt good know me and 7 others not only saw a great movie about our planet, but by just go...
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NEXTAID Youth With A Vision: Community Center And Children's Residential Village
THE VILLAGE Intended to showcase natural building design, the earth-friendly sustainable village in Dennilton, South Africa will serve as a beacon of hope in a community that has been devastated b...
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Honduras. July 28th, 2008 The following post was written Friday from Honduras where I was visiting 6 new wells funded through our partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue. $500,000 was raised through...
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Hi I’m Aaron Cohen, a human rights activist who works in the area of slave retrievals. That’s right! Slavery is NOT history. It’s the fastest growing illegal business in the world. I started my act...
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I just walked out of the Desolation Wilderness today. I went backpacking with two of my friends. For four days and three nights. I was reminded again of my love of the woods. Our first day we trekk...
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When my oldest son was in kindergarten we were behind schedule, he had one of those mornings where he didn’t want to go to school; he didn’t want to get out of bed: it that ended up in a huge b...
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Updates from NextAid's Africa Projects
Dear NextAid Supporter, I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and thank you for your ongoing support of NextAid. As a grassroots organization, we truly rely on the involvement an...
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God's Perfect timeline or No such thing as Genetic Epidemic
There are laws of earth and nature that are just basic to faith, science, and human existence... (In no particular order... OK I deliberately put the last one last) 1. In the beginning God Creat...
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Thousands join Hands On Manila Servathon 2008
More than 1000 volunteers from 30 organizations got their hands dirty in participation to Hands On Manila’s Servathon 2008. From public schools to indigent communities around the metro, the part...
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SILENT PAINTING PROTEST - SAN FRANCISCO OCT 25th
At 11 am on October 25th, 2008 Constructed Perfection is taking ART RESPONSE!® bicoastal and hosting its first West Coast event in San Francisco's Dolores Park. W...
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Stories from the Field: Long Beach State Students
The Nexus is proud to introduce a new monthly feature that will bring first-hand accounts from volunteers, staff or local community members who want to share experiences and insights from our Afric...
