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In 2009, Earth Island continued as an expanding global hub for effective environmental problem solving.
- The Altai Project brought several Altai architects to Northern California to conduct advanced study of straw bale and other green building technologies.
- Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) celebrated 10 years of providing educators with the training and equipment needed to take urban youth on safe, life-changing wilderness trips. Since their founding BAWT has taken over 11,000 urban youth into nature.
- Bay Localize published a Community Resilience Toolkit to guide groups to think holistically about how to build ecological, economic, and social resilience in their communities while decreasing reliance on fossil fuels.
- California Student Sustainability Coalition convened college campus activists to educate, train, and network the next generation of leaders in California at its Spring and Fall Convergences at CalPoly and UC Santa Cruz.
- Energy Action Coalition brought together 13,000 youth activists for its PowerShift conference in February in Washington, DC, and this fall coordinated a series of regional PowerShift conferences, spreading the message in local communities around the country.
- International Marine Mammal Project is the lead organization of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition. The work of the Coalition has been bolstered by the international media attention and worldwide outrage generated by the award-winning documentary The Cove.
- Kids for the Bay received California’s highest and most prestigious environmental honor: the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in the Children’s Environmental Education category.
- Project Coyote presented at “The International Symposium on Urban Wildlife Ecology and Management” and the “Carnivores Conference” and released the documentary, American Coyote — Still Wild at Heart.
- Red Panda Network’s Nepal affiliate was awarded a consultation with WWF-Nepal to conduct the largest survey ever of the red panda in Nepal.
- Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) hosted its Weaving the Worlds Fall 2009 Event Series at Brower Center highlighting its work in Africa and North America’s Native communities, as well as its exploratory November trip to the fields of India to meet with women working in agriculture there.
For more information on these and other projects of Earth Island, please visit www.earthisland.org. Join Earth Island, Subscribe to our Earth Island Journal and/or make a special 2009 year-end gift or discover other ways to give.