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reuters Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat — foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country. Despite a complete hunting ban across Afghanistan since 2002, snow leopard furs regularly end up for sale on international military bases and at [...]

emagazine.com Jennifer Phillips always felt guilty that her large Nashville law firm didn’t recycle. So after big client meetings, she collected all the empty plastic water bottles, took them home and added them to her own curbside recycling bin. Now, she is proud to report that her firm, Bass, Berry & Sims, serves an icy [...]

www.greenpeace.org Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence. : We requested an investigation into the scandal, and the [...]

Time: 11 am-8 pm Venue: Toa Payoh Amphitheatre (in front of Toa Payoh Community Library) Website: http://www.kolamayeryouths.sg/envirofest2008/ Contact: boonwah_chan@KolamAyerYouths.sg Envirofest is a platform for local environmental groups to showcase their conservation efforts and publicize their activities so as to raise awareness among the general public of Singapore. It also hopes to build a network that [...]

oneearth.org “Neighbors” Through the extraordinary cinematography of Bob Talbot, this message explores the connection between the health of our oceans & our own health. Narration is by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIjbQ_3nEU Visit their website for more videos.

emagazine Berkeley has long been an environmental innovator, and the city is again taking the lead with a plan to loan residents the money they need to go solar. Homeowners will be able to tack the annual loan payments onto their property tax bill. The proposal eliminates the two major financial hurdles to installing solar [...]

reefrelief.org The Florida Legislature passed a bill yesterday to end a decade’s old practice of dumping poorly treated sewage off Florida’s southeast coast. The House of Representatives passed the Wastewater Disposal Bill (HB 7139), created earlier by the Senate (SB 1302), with just two days left in the session. : The bill requires all facilities [...]

http://plantabillion.org/ The Plant a Billion Trees campaign launched by The Nature Conservancy is working in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil to restore 2.5 million acres of land by planting 1 billion trees over the next seven years. The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the world’s most endangered tropical forests — only 7 percent of [...]

bizjournals.com A recent study shows consumers are ready to go green but aren’t finding what they want in the market. The 2007 National Technology Readiness Survey sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and technology research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc. found that there [...]

www.earthhour.org earthhoursingapore.blogspot.com Date: 29th March 2008 Time: 2000H – 2100H Action: Turn off the Lights It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 [...]