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Grant will help restore ‘legacy’ oak habitat in Southern Oregon and Northern California

Marko Bey, executive director of the Ashland-based Lomakatsi Restoration Project, checks out a large oak tree in the Colestin Valley. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch

January 16, 2015, www.mailtribune.com | “New grant will help Lomakatsi restore 3,000 acres of ‘legacy’ oak habitat.  For the vast majority of its 400-plus years, a mammoth black oak rising from a hill outside of the Colestin Valley has been a vibrant giver of life.  Oak titmice would nest in its cavities while everything from black-tailed deer, woodpeckers and even Native Americans feasted on its bountiful acorn crop, but 60 years of bad neighbors have inflicted a heavy price.”

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 GREEN JOBS
“We’re unearthing these treasures buried in here and bringing them back to life.” Read about how federal funding secured by Lomakatsi and our partners will support ongoing efforts to protect large, old oak trees and restore oak woodland habitat in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
— Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Restoring 3,000 acres of ‘Legacy’ Oak Habitat in OR & CA with a $3 million federal grant
For the vast majority of its 400-plus years, a mammoth black oak rising from a hill outside of the Colestin Valley has been a vibrant giver of life.
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Pledge To Plant – One Billion Seeds for Earth Day

January 13, 2015, www.facebook.com | “ Be a part of the biggest grass-root effort in history by planting a seed/tree as a “give back” to Earth. It’s an old Native American tradition that when you take something from the Earth, you must put something back. Earth Day 2015 will be a global “give back to Earth” event, as an “offering” for all the planet gives us. Our goal is to plant one billion seeds/trees.”

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Already .. 64,000 people are going … why? because every day is Earth Day

Thanks to Ysabel Vicente for letting me know
One Billion Trees/Seeds Planted – Earth Day, April 22, 2015All over the World 93,499 people are going
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Indiana Introduces GMO Labeling Bill

BREAKING: Indiana Senator Dennis Kruse has introduced SB-60, a bill to require companies to label foods produced by genetic engineering. Under the bill, a company also couldn't use "natural" on its label if the product contained genetically modified organisms, known as "GMOs." Violators could face infractions. Kruse acknowledged that the bill will certainly face "vigorous lobbying against it by big companies." Hoosiers, get your game on! WE NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S GMO! READ: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/01/07/gmos-food-indiana-lawmaker-pushes-labeling/21354711/ #Indiana #labelgmos #SB60 #DennisKruse #NeedtoKnowGMO #GMO #freedom2chooz #gmofreeindiana #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa

January 8, 2015, www.facebook.com | “Indiana Senator Dennis Kruse has introduced SB-60, a bill to require companies to label foods produced by genetic engineering. Under the bill, a company also couldn’t use “natural” on its label if the product contained genetically modified organisms, known as “GMOs.” Violators could face infractions. Kruse acknowledged that the bill will certainly face “vigorous lobbying against it by big companies.” Hoosiers, get your game on! WE NEED TO KNOW IF IT’S GMO!”

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Monsanto earnings tumble in first quarter as South American farmers cut back on corn planting

January 7, 2015, www.chicagotribune.com | “Monsanto said Wednesday that its earnings fell 34 percent in the first fiscal quarter as South American farmers cut back on planting corn, reducing demand for the company’s biotech-enhanced seeds.”

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 Monsanto Total Earnings down 34%, Roundup Herbicide Sales down 8%
Monsanto said Wednesday that its earnings fell 34 percent in the first fiscal quarter as South American farmers cut back on planting corn, reducing demand for the…
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The Amish Farmers Reinventing Organic Agriculture

October 6, 2014, www.theatlantic.com | “‘In the Second World War,’ Samuel Zook began, ‘my ancestors were conscientious objectors because we don’t believe in combat.’ The Amish farmer paused a moment to inspect a mottled leaf on one of his tomato plants before continuing. ‘If you really stop and think about it, though, when we go out spraying our crops with pesticides, that’s really what we’re doing. It’s chemical warfare, bottom line.'”

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“A group of Amish farmers is re-inventing organic agriculture. By studying the immune system of plants, they have developed a technique that restores natural bal…”
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My edible classroom gives deprived New York kids a reason to attend school

Stephen Ritz working on vertical planters with studentsAugust 20, 2014, www.theguardian.com | “Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York’s deprived South Bronx district where he began a pioneering project to farm plants and vegetables indoors at Discovery High School. The school’s so-called “edible walls” gave birth to the Green Bronx Machine, a project that helps other schools in the US start their own agricultural programmes to teach children healthy eating, environmental awareness and life skills. As well as continuing his educational work in New York, Stephen travels the world promoting the value of growing fresh produce, both in schools and the wider community.”

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My edible classroom gives deprived New York kids a reason to attend school
Teacher Stephen Ritz explains how a project to grow fresh food in his school turned into a wider movement encouraging healthy eating among US students
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Indigenous Seed Savers Gather in the Andes, Agree to Fight Climate Change with Biodiversity

July 30, 2014, www.organicconsumers.org | “On top of a rugged Andean mountain situated high in Peru’s Cusco region, on 30,000 acres of conserved land known as Parque de la Papa (Spanish for “Potato Park”), indigenous farmers met in late April to discuss conditions they feared were threatening their ancestral lands.”

 

Did you know that in the last 100 years the world has lost 75% of its plant varieties? Indigenous populations across the world are coming together to protect what is left. Learn more: http://orgcns.org/1uswkMG
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Healing Power from Nature

July 13, 2014, www.pinterest.com | “Healing power from nature – a short video about the importance of medicinal plants and the FairWild Standard”

 

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“PROFILE: HELPING PEOPLE AND PLANET
‘Sustainable use of medicinal plants to protect biodiversity, maintain human health, ensure social justice’
Botanical Industry – Medicinal Plants Worldwide
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Protection Sought for Rare Colorado, Utah Wildflowers Threatened by Oil Shale Development

White River BeardtongueJuly 9, 2014, earthjustice.org | “A broad coalition of conservation groups today sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service urging the agency to grant Endangered Species Act protection to two imperiled wildflowers in Utah and Colorado. The Service proposed to protect the flowers and some of their most important habitat last August. Unfortunately, in May, bowing to pressure from industrial energy interests, the agency announced it was considering substituting protection under the Act with a completely voluntary ‘conservation agreement’ to be executed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as well as state and county agencies—the same parties that for many years have worked to block federal protection of the Graham’s and White River beardtongues.”

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Protecting the Amazon for Life

http://www.animalnational.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Amazon-Rainforest-Animals.jpgMay 21, 2014, www.worldwildlife.org | “It has taken millions of years for the Amazon to evolve into the most biologically diverse place on Earth. In just a tiny fraction of that amount of time humans have radically changed our natural world, and not for the better. The government of Brazil, working in partnership with WWF and others, envisioned a better way forward, a bold and aggressive move in how large-scale conservation is achieved.”

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Protecting the Amazon for Life | Stories | WWF
A model for conservation, the Amazon Region Protected Areas ensures 150 acres—three times the size of all US parks combined—of the Amazon are protected for life”
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