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Ride against removal - Johnson City Press


Sam Evans and Missy Petty rolled into Jonesborough’s Visitor’s Center late Friday afternoon following a six-hour bicycle ride down U.S. Highway 11E from Knoxville. They were welcomed by a group gathered by the League of Women Voters, who share ...


9 Jan 2009

Splashes of beauty - Guardian Unlimited


The parts the houseboats don’t reach ... kayaking gives you access to narrower waterways and more remote villages. Photograph: Poorna Shetty The river holds a mirror image of the sky so accurately in its glassy surface that, save for the occasional ...


9 Jan 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil Has No National Policy - Inter Press Service


RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 13 (IPS) - Brazil has no national strategy to fight pollution that contributes to global climate change, in spite of being part of the trio of developing countries, with China and India, that emit most greenhouse gases, experts ...


9 Jan 2009

Send To: - Inter Press Service


CLIMATE CHANGE-LATIN AMERICA: Frightening Numbers Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 22 (IPS) - The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean need billions of dollars to deal with the economic impact of climate change -- funding that is not easily ...


9 Jan 2009

World perspective offered through Girl Scouts - Chippewa Herald


Teen Girl Scouts 11-17 have the amazing opportunity to travel across the state, the country, or the globe each year. These extraordinary experiences, called Destinations, give girls an unparalleled opportunity to discover themselves and connect with ...


9 Jan 2009

Credit crunch may lead to another rice crisis - Columbia Missourian


A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice _ a staple for almost 700 million of Asia's poorest _ but it could jump again this year as farmers struggle to secure loans amid the credit crunch, experts said Friday. The price of the ...


9 Jan 2009

Real Estate Live (Washington Post)


YAHOO - Real Estate Live (Washington Post)Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty and author Elizabeth Razzi.


9 Jan 2009

Consumer: Exotic Fruit - Superfood Or Super Fad? (WCBS-TV New York)


YAHOO - Consumer: Exotic Fruit - Superfood Or Super Fad? (WCBS-TV New York)Move over soy and pomegranate. Food manufacturers are infusing more exotic fruit into their products and calling them the latest "superfoods." But are they really just another super fad? CBS 2's Kirstin Cole investigates.


9 Jan 2009

La Canada's 2008 Year in Review (La Cañada Valley Sun)


YAHOO - La Canada• “Rainforest Fiesta,” La Cañada Flintridge’s entry in the 2008 Rose Parade, garnered the Animation Trophy. It was this city’s 30th year of participation in the world-renowned parade. That afternoon, USC beat Illinois in the Rose Bowl.


8 Jan 2009

Regrowing Borneo's Rainforest--Tree by Tree (Scientific American)


YAHOO - Regrowing BorneoJust below the equator, on the island of Borneo, a tropical rain forest is rising out of a logged, charred wasteland. Dawn mists cling to the leaves of ginger and mango trees erupting out of a tangle of ferns, rattan and yam vines. A sparse canopy of white-barked acacias shelters them in filtered shade as the sun burns through the haze. From deep in the distance a tuneless chorus of gibbons ...


7 Jan 2009

Save the Cocoa Tree! Buy Sustainable Chocolate (TheStreet.com)


YAHOO - Save the Cocoa Tree! Buy Sustainable Chocolate (TheStreet.com)Look for products that are stamped with the USDA Organic, Fair Trade Certified or Rainforest Alliance labels. And check out these brands.


7 Jan 2009

Andy Staples: Mother's cancer turned everything around for Gators receiver Murphy (Sports Illustrated)


YAHOO - Andy Staples: MotherSome days, when the elementary school tour groups had wound their way through, when the budget meetings had wrapped, Louis Murphy would stand in the man-made rainforest on the southwest corner of the University of Florida campus and watch the butterflies. Others favored the Blue Morphos, but Murphy preferred the Emerald Swallowtails, the peacocks of the insect world.


7 Jan 2009

FP rainforest jumperoo?


I found it at WalMart for 70 instead of the 90 at BRU... I think we'll head over there tonight. :) Somehow we have accumulated nearly every rainforest item FP sells... the car mirror, bouncer, crib machine... she loves the monkey, ...


9 Jan 2009

rainforest Nepean, Ottawa


rainforest. Price, $35. Description, hi i have the rainforet tummy time met from wal-mart it sells fro 45 plus tax.... i am selling for 35 it is in brnd new condition. Nepean (Where is this?) Ad Id: 7957237 ...


9 Jan 2009

Growing Louisville Green: Amazon Rainforest, a bright looking ...


I wrote you earlier this month with urgent news that both the Bering Sea and Amazon rainforest ecosystems are in serious danger. Already, the situation in the Amazon has gone from bad to worse, and I'm outraged by what's happening now. ...


9 Jan 2009

Fickle Drumbeats, Oranges Running: The Beautiful, Wild Rainforest ...


The Beautiful, Wild Rainforest & You;;; Random words from a truly random soul. The library. Smells like the ape house. At the zoo. You smell like. That commercial. The commercial. In the rainforest— In the beautiful, wild rainforest. ...


9 Jan 2009

Regrowing Borneo’s Rainforest– Tree by Tree | Orangutan Outreach


Orangutan Outreach - committed to the conservation and rehabilitation of critically endangered orangutans. Reach out and save the orangutans. Help support Lone Droscher Nielsen and the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rehabilitation Center.


9 Jan 2009

Paintings of the Rainforest | Forest Policy Research


To imagine the rainforest of days gone by, that's how paintings and photos of ancient forest stir me. Imagine how the city you live in was once a wild place.


8 Jan 2009