Betty White Issues Challenge for her 90th Birthday – 9,000 New Members This Week
During this year’s Be Kind To Animals Week, the Humane Society is putting out an urgent plea to protect more of the nation’s 10 billion+ farm animals, 3-4 million shelter animals who are euthanized yearly,...
May
06
These flashback videos of the first Earth Day, back in 1970 with Walter Cronkite on CBS News, give us context for what is happening in the world today. In this broadcast 42 years ago, Cronkite admonished, “Act now or die,” a refrain that continues to this day.
For the whole 13 part...
Apr
17
Leopards are elusive but seen in the Lower Mpushini Valley Conservancy. Photo wikipedia commons
South African Conservancies
Around the world, people are mobilizing to celebrate Earth Day, April 22. But for many, Earth Day is every day. These are the people who make things happen, the movers and...
Apr
17
A Billion Acts of Green®
Earth Day Network’s goal of A Billion Acts of Green® pledged before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the so called Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this June is closing in on the finish line with more than 890,000,000 environmental actions...
Apr
10
For the fourth year in a row, the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn is commemorating the event by packaging the official White House 2012 Easter Eggs in gift boxes made from paperboard certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). The eggs come in four colors, stamped with the...
Apr
06
New Data Shows What Trash is in Your Ocean and Waterways
New data released by the Ocean Conservancy highlights the need for humans to clean up their acts.
The numbers, generated during the 2011 International Coastal Cleanup last September, are staggering.
With 598,076 volunteers around the world...
Mar
28
From a small beginning of just one city, the Earth Hour movement has grown to include more than 135 countries and territories, 5251 cities and towns and billions of people around the world.
In Sydney, Australia that March 31st in 2007, 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned...
Mar
26
Humans to the Rescue
Was it the strong tide or something more sinister that brought on the beaching of 30 dolphins on the beach of Arraial do Cabo in Rio de Janeiro? Dolphins, like whales have beached throughout human history; consequently many strandings can be attributed to natural and...
Mar
20
