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There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon		04 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
There'll Always Be an England ... in Brazil Vast new rainforest reserve unveiled in Brazilian Amazon The Brazilian Amazon will soon be home to the world's largest tropical-rainforest reserve, in news that's making conservationists beam -- and making us feel better about all those pints of Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch we ate to help the cause. The vast tract -- which, at 63,320 square miles, is larger than Eng ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, land stewardship, news (all these topics)

A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued		09 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued Ooh, we love reports. A new one from a team of European scientists says the Arctic and Antarctic are linked by powerful currents, creating a "climate seesaw" that connects the fates of the poles and could help scientists predict the effects of polar warming on climate. A second, U.N.-commissioned re ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Kenya, land stewardship, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Home Is Best A review of Wangari Maathai's autobiography Unbowed	Shalini Ramanathan	30 Oct 2006	Arts and Minds
October 2004 was an exciting time to be a tree-hugger in Wangari Maathai's home country of Kenya. When she was announced as winner of that year's Nobel Peace Prize, many of my environmentally inclined friends and colleagues were eager to help her figure out what to do with the giant megaphone she had just been handed. Earnest volunteers with ideas and expectations streamed in and out of the downt ...
Topics: Kenya, land stewardship (all these topics)

The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action		21 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action In a Three Stooges-esque poke to the eyes of the Bush administration (nyuk nyuk!), U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte yesterday reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road construction, logging, mining, and other development in roadless national forest areas. In May 2005, the Bushies replaced ...
Topics: land stewardship, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers Hoping to preserve both the prairie and the livelihoods of ranchers, green groups like The Nature Conservancy have created "grass banks" by buying up land and allowing ranchers to graze there for cheap. In exchange, ranchers agree to conserve habitat on their own land for ferrets, curlews, and other species. The New Mexico- ...
Topics: land stewardship, Nature Conservancy, news, ranching (all these topics)

Have You Hugged Your Tree Today? On Arbor Day, appreciate the trees		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Have You Hugged Your Tree Today? On Arbor Day, appreciate the trees Urban forest cover in many U.S. cities has declined about 30 percent over the past 10 to 15 years, according to the green group American Forests, and that's just not cool. Literally: loss of trees means loss of shade, more AC, and higher energy costs. On Arbor Day (you remember that today's Arbor Day, right?), it's worth remembering the many ...
Topics: land stewardship, news, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

When Nature Calls Two new books on nature reveal three writers' ways of seeing	Jane Roy Brown	08 Dec 2005	Arts and Minds
"It was on Cape Cod during fall a few years back, after the century fell but before the towers did, that I began paying a series of visits to the writer John Hay." With this opening line in The Prophet of Dry Hill, David Gessner sets the tone for a quest that is both personal and transcendent. Like "Call me Ishmael," this sentence also lets us know that we are in the h ...
Topics: land stewardship (all these topics)

Down to EarthCorps Su Thieda, EarthCorps program director, answers readers' questions		04 Nov 2005	InterActivist
Su Thieda, EarthCorps program director. Does EarthCorps come to other cities [besides Seattle], or do you know of similar programs in other cities? -- Victoria Michel, Los Angeles, Calif. EarthCorps is a locally based program. To my knowledge no other conservation service program is integrating U.S. and international participants. There are many other restoration/conservation programs, and I would ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics)

Journey to the Center of the EarthCorps Su Thieda, EarthCorps program director, answers Grist's questions		31 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Su Thieda. What work do you do? I am director of programs for EarthCorps. What does your organization do? EarthCorps' mission is to build global community through local environmental service. EarthCorps restores native habitat while training young leaders and engaging volunteers in hands-on environmental service. On a day-to-day basis, EarthCorps crews can be found in parks, gree ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics)

Built Trip Brian Hayes' Infrastructure offers a tour of the 'unnatural' side of America	Jim Rossi	25 Oct 2005	Arts and Minds
Brian Hayes' Infrastructure offers a tour of the "unnatural" side of America By Jim Rossi 25 Oct 2005 Transmission accomplished. The unprecedented hurricane season that flooded New Orleans and flattened much of the Gulf Coast this summer brought both catastrophe and an historic opportunity: building more-sustainable cities and infrastructure has suddenly become a hot topic. New Orleans doesn't need only restored wetlands and stronger levees to offer protection from future hu ...
Topics: land stewardship (all these topics)

Rake's Progress On autumn leaves	Umbra Fisk	21 Sep 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, With fall here, the leaves are changing and falling from the trees. What is the best way to handle them? Burning them makes so much smoke, but putting them in trash bags and sending them to the landfill doesn't seem like a good thing to do either. Please advise. Thanks! Molly Ratkay South Bend, Ind. Dearest Molly, Keep them. Partially decomposed deciduous leaves are an excellent source of micronutrients. In fact, they are ge ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, land stewardship (all these topics)

Peacock and Bull Walking It Off, Doug Peacock's memoir, separates the man from the myth	Tim Sprinkle	13 Sep 2005	Arts and Minds
Walking It Off by Doug Peacock, Ewu Press, 208 pgs., 2005. Think you know Doug Peacock? Think again. He was the inspiration for George Washington Hayduke, the hard-charging, Vietnam-scarred protagonist of Edward Abbey's classic environmental novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. But there's more to the Peacock story than just trashing bulldozers and causing trouble -- a truth his new me ...
Topics: land stewardship, religion and spirituality, wildlife (all these topics)

The Goldman Standard These six activists have won a top prize -- and countless battles	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2005	Main Dish
The winners: (clockwise from left) L�pez, Ewango, Roth, Tamayo, Goldman (cofounder of the prize), Atakhanova, Jean-Baptiste. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. You know it's been a tough year when you've spent half of it wondering if you're dead. Since the October debut of "The Death of Environmentalism," many environmentalists in the U.S. have indulged in spells of g ...
Topics: land stewardship (all these topics)

You Won't Find a Lower-Priced Greenwash -- We Guarantee! Wal-Mart pledges to buy and preserve land to compensate for footprint		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
You Won't Find a Lower-Priced Greenwash -- We Guarantee! Wal-Mart pledges to buy and preserve land to compensate for footprint Retail leviathan Wal-Mart, stung by a spate of bad press accusing it of sprawling consumption of open spaces, excessive storm-water runoff at construction sites, discrimination against women, employment of illegal immigrants, ruthless price-cutting strategies that drive jobs abroad, and ...
Topics: business, land stewardship, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

African-Do Congo Basin rainforest protected by treaty		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
African-Do Congo Basin rainforest protected by treaty The world's second-largest rainforest, spanning 10 countries in the Congo Basin of Africa and disappearing at a rate of some 3.7 million acres a year, is now a wee bit safer. This weekend, leaders of seven central African nations signed a treaty aimed at slowing the widespread illegal logging, poaching, ivory trafficking, and bushmeat trade that are rapidly destro ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, rainforests (all these topics)

The God of Small Savings Ex-millionaire surrounded by trees, little else		04 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The God of Small Savings Ex-millionaire surrounded by trees, little else Former real-estate mogul Xing Yiqian is well-known on the Chinese island of Hainan for his dedicated conservation of the area's dense rainforest. Called the "tree god" by locals, Xing spent his fortune -- once valued at $24 million -- paying individual landowners not to cut down their trees, financing expensive transplants for unwanted ...
Topics: China, land stewardship, rainforests (all these topics)

Baby Got Adirondack Pataki protects big swath of New York's Adirondack Mountains		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Baby Got Adirondack Pataki protects big swath of New York's Adirondack Mountains New York Gov. George Pataki (R) yesterday announced a deal whereby some 104,000 acres of land in the northeastern Adirondacks will be protected from development and opened up to public use -- the third-largest land conservation deal in state history. The parcels of land lie on a contiguous swath of forest, which makes it particularly significant for ...
Topics: land stewardship, New York (all these topics)

Compromise, Hell! Environmentalists have given up too much by not being radical enough	Wendell Berry	20 Oct 2004	Soapbox
Photo: � 2000 David-Lorne Photographic We are destroying our country -- I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that ...
Topics: land stewardship, politics, United States (all these topics)

Oh Brother, Where Art ... Oh, There You Are Jeb Bush borrows money to accelerate Everglades plan		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Oh Brother, Where Art ... Oh, There You Are Jeb Bush borrows money to accelerate Everglades plan President Bush has made much of his devotion to wetlands, even vowing during the second debate to "increase the wetlands by 3 million." Three whole million! But the nation's biggest environmental initiative -- signed into law in 2000 and aimed at restoring Florida's most beloved wetlands, the Everglades -- is mov ...
Topics: Florida, land stewardship, politics (all these topics)

Amazon Women on the Move Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers readers' questions		01 Oct 2004	InterActivist
Judy Logback, founder of the Kallari Association. What is the level of understanding of the native people that you work with about the crucial role of the Amazon rainforest in biodiversity and global warming? Has their perspective changed since you first arrived there?�� -- Sue Kaufman, Portland, Ore. I think that when I arrived many of the people had an excellent view of the importanc ...
Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics)

Livin' la Vida Pura Judy Logback, enterprising Amazonian activist, answers Grist's questions		27 Sep 2004	InterActivist
Judy Logback. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I arrived in Ecuador in 1997 and throughout the past seven years have visited and worked with more than 600 rural families to encourage them to establish the Kallari Association, a small farmers' and artisans' organization dedicated to sustainable organic production of a diverse array of products, made up of 24 Amazon indi ...
Topics: Amazon, green living, InterActivist, interview, land stewardship (all these topics)

Hugh and Cry Questions raised about influential conservation software		22 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Hugh and Cry Questions raised about influential conservation software In recent years, many large conservation plans -- including the biggie that led Australia to ban fishing on a third of the Great Barrier Reef -- were produced using a computer program called Marxan. Now, Australian professor Hugh P. Possingham, who helped develop the program in 1998, is raising questions about it. In a recent study, Possingham found that unl ...
Topics: Australia, land stewardship (all these topics)

The Joy of Sachs Exotic South American forest set aside as wilderness by ... bankers?		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Joy of Sachs Exotic South American forest set aside as wilderness by ... bankers? When New York investment banking and management firm Goldman Sachs acquired a logging operation in Tierra del Fuego, on an island off the southernmost tip of Chile, it did something unusual: Rather than "seek to maximize its economic value, which is what we would have done if this were a shopping mall or an apartment building," ...
Topics: business, Chile, land stewardship (all these topics)

Take a Walk on the Wild Side The Wilderness Act Turns 40		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Take a Walk on the Wild Side The Wilderness Act Turns 40 Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Some 9 million acres were designated wilderness upon passage; 106 million acres are protected under the act today. Jimmy Carter signed the most land into wilderness, with 66.3 million acres; Reagan accounted for 10.6 m ...
Topics: land stewardship, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Georgia on Her Mind Manana Kochladze strives to protect Georgia from a BP oil pipeline	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Apr 2004	Main Dish
The Republic of Georgia, which gained its independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union, may be best known to Westerners as the birthplace of Josef Stalin. But this new democracy, bordered by the formidable Caucasus mountains, is also known for its alpine forests, stunning mountain gorges, and clear-running mineral springs. Kochladze. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Man ...
Topics: energy, Georgia, interview, land stewardship, oil (all these topics)

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