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The Federal Budget Cannot Be Balanced on the Back of America’s Lands and Waters

By Mark Tercek huffingtonpost.com 7/24/11 Recently I sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives opposing passage of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill for 2012 that will go to the House floor this coming week. As I said in that letter, The Nature Conservancy has long provided ideas and input

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Appleton, Russian students make difference in communities by volunteering

By Kara Patterson Appleton Post-Crescent Jul. 24, 2011 Eight teenagers who live a world apart have spent nearly four weeks together this summer making a difference in their respective communities. Students in the Fox Cities-Kurgan Sister Cities Program’s Global Institute worked together Friday to help prepare land for a new habitat at Gordon Bubolz Nature

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Students become botanists for a day at the local zoo

By Nikki Namdar centralfloridafuture.com July 24, 2011 The animal division of Volunteer UCF took their first trip to the zoo and became botanists for the day to help maintain the environment for the zoo’s wildlife. “We have a very diverse group of people,” Chelsea Balkam, director of the animal unit of VUCF, said. “Everyone is

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Rising sophomore defends environment through art

http://youtu.be/DZXdo5ocMsA Geneva Boyer’s work is winning attention from activists and politicians By Debra Filcman brandeis.edu July 6, 2011 Geneva Boyer is a Renaissance woman. But it’s the poetry Boyer writes and performs that has garnered the most attention lately, and has given her an audience with leaders from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), former presidential

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Santa Monica High School Students Inspire Thought About Environment

By Susan Cloke SANTA MONICA MIRROR JULY. 3, 2011 Charlotte Biren and Jenna Perelman have been thinking about the natural environment and preparing to be environmental stewards since their elementary school days. They shine with confidence in their understanding of what needs to be done to create environmental sustainability and their commitment to get the

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Lanier Middle School earns kudos for eco-friendly action

Fairfax Times by Holly Hobbs Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 Schoolwide efforts draw nod from National Wildlife Federation Lanier Middle School’s yearlong effort to be more eco-friendly recently gained the school notice from the National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA program.[snip] One such effort was the transformation of Lanier Middle’s courtyard from a nearly barren plot to

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Environmental activism needs its own revolution to regain its teeth

Charles Secrett guardian.co.uk 13 June 2011 Today’s protest tactics are not sufficient to alter the destructive path travelled by virtually all governments and most corporations Forty years ago, Friends of the Earth announced its arrival in the UK with a handful of placard-waving volunteers dumping 1,500 non-returnable Schweppes bottles on the front steps of the

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Top student passionate about environment

The Calgary Herald By Staff JUNE 11, 2011 Ashley Itzcovitch is a remarkable role model at STS. Not only is she a full International Baccalaureate diploma candidate with first-class honours, Ashley mentors elementary students on their primary years program exhibition projects and serves as a leader in many endeavours. As the Round Square Director of

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High schoolers educate public on energy — Earthkeepers work with city on promotion

By Jeanette Stewart The StarPhoenix June 10, 2011 The Aden Bowman Earthkeepers class is designing promotional materials for Saskatoon’s “green energy park,” a complex that will include a wind turbine, methane gas collection facility and a turbo-expander, which will collect energy from a SaskEnergy natural gas regulating station on the site. As part of the

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