Earth Island Institute

Vote for Ric Every Day!

EII’s Ric O’Barry and the Dolphin Project are in first place to win a hefty 25,000 Euro donation to help save whales and dolphins around the world, and you can help make sure he stays on top! Please vote for O’Barry here. You will need to register with the site to be able to vote, but the neat thing is you can vote every day until March 27.

Thursday March 21, 2013

Free Sustainability Series

EII’s Sustainable World Coalition is again co-producing the Spring of Sustainability, a high profile, free series of online events featuring interviews and panels with more than 50 global sustainability leaders, including Bill McKibben, Michael Brune, Hunter Lovins, Randy Hayes, Janine Benyus, and John Perkins. The presenters will share their wisdom, resources and solutions with the intent of informing and inspiring. The events run from April 1 through June 14. Everyone is welcome. Participants can connect in via phone or web. Registration is free.

Thursday March 21, 2013

Bring Back the Wetlands

Earth Island’s Restoration Initiatives and the Wetlands Recovery Project are soliciting proposals for community-based wetland and watershed restoration projects in Southern California. The proposed projects, to be funded by the Community Wetland Restoration Grant Program, should have clearly defined goals and results that can be achieved within a year. Nonprofits, schools, universities, homeowners associations, and local governments are welcome to apply. Grants are given in amounts up to $30,000. Applications are due March 26, 2013. Learn more about the grant program here.

Thursday March 21, 2013

The New Gold

Earth Island's New Leaders Initiative is hosting the next installment of its Rooted and Rising series, entitled “Water – the New Gold?” at the David Brower Center on Wednesday, April 3. The discussion about who lacks access to water and and what we are willing to do about it will include 2012 Brower Youth Award winner Martin Figueroa, student activist Angélica Salceda, Brent Bucknum of EII’s Urban Biofilter, and Colin Bailey of Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. Click here for more information and to RSVP.

Thursday March 21, 2013

The Best of Earth Island Journal

Get the latest environmental news from Earth Island Journal. Here are our favorites from the last few weeks:
Most Popular: Seven Amazing Women Who Are Working to Change Our Food System. In honor of International Women’s Day, Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of Food Tank, profiles seven women working to improve different aspects of our food system.


Editors’ Pick: Fight Against Fracking in California Gathers Steam. The Journal’s Maureen Nandini Mitra documents how environmentalists and lawmakers are mustering forces to resist an expected fracking boom in California.

Thursday March 21, 2013

Movie Night At the Brower Center

As part of its ongoing exhibit “Promise and Peril: A Study in Biodiversity,” the David Brower Center in partnership with the San Francisco Green Film Festival and Earth Island Institute will present a screening of “People of a Feather” – a film that explores the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay – at the Brower Center’s Goldman Theater on Thursday, April 4. The event includes a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Joel Heath and artist Jeffrey Long. Ticketing details here.

Thursday March 21, 2013

Free Sustainability Series

This spring, Sustainable World Coalition is again co-producing the Spring of Sustainability, a high profile, free series of events featuring interviews and panels with more than 50 global sustainability leaders, including Bill McKibben, Michael Brune, Hunter Lovins, Randy Hayes, Janine Benyus, and John Perkins. The presenters will share their wisdom, resources and solutions with the intent of informing and inspiring. The events run from April 1 through June 14. Everyone is welcome. Participants can connect in via phone or web. Register at no charge at springofsustainability.com.  Learn more about SWC at www.swcoalition.org.

Thursday February 7, 2013

Youth Environmental Forum

The Fifth Annual Youth Environmental Forum is almost here! Beginning on February 11 in San Rafael, this two day event for school groups grades 1-12 will incorporate film screening, panels discussions with filmmakers and more. Maya Salsedo, one of last year's Brower Youth Award winners, will be the keynote speaker. For more information and to register, click here.

Thursday February 7, 2013

Summer Camps for Youth

EII’s YEA Camp has announced dates for its 2013 youth camps. These residential summer camps are meant for youth ages 12 to 17 who want to make a difference in the world. Campers choose an issue that is important to them and build the knowledge, confidence, and skills to take action on that issue. Locations and dates for 2013 are: California, near Santa Cruz, July 14-21; Oregon, near Portland, July 27-Aug 3; and Massachusetts in Charlton, Aug 10-17. Registration is now open.

Thursday February 7, 2013

The New Gold

The New Leaders Initiative is hosting the next installment of its Rooted and Rising series, entitled "Water — the New Gold?" on Wednesday, April 3. The discussion will include Brower Youth Award winner Martin Figueroa, UC-Berkeley student activist Angélica Salceda, and Colin Bailey of Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. This event will explore contemporary water issues in our society and solutions for conserving this precious resource. For more information and to RSVP visit waternewgold.eventbrite.com.

Thursday February 7, 2013

The Best of Earth Island Journal

Get the latest environmental news from Earth Island Journal. Here are our favorites from the last few weeks:

Most Popular:
Solomon Islands’ Dolphin Kill Spurred by Corrupt Dolphin Traders, Says Animal Rights Group. Maureen Nandini Mitra reports on a dolphin slaughter of some 1,000 animals.

Editors’ Pick:
Wolf Slaughter Continues in the Rocky Mountains. James William Gibson uncovers the increasingly bizarre fantasies fueling the violence against the gray wolf.

Thursday February 7, 2013

Don’t let Alaska Revoke Ship Pollution Rules

Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters is challenging a proposed legislation in Alaska, sponsored by Governor Sean Parnell, that aims to throw overboard basic regulations aimed at reducing cruise ship pollution. In 2006, Alaska passed the best cruise ship pollution rules in the world, but Governor Parnell has been working with the industry ever since to undermine those rules. Bills to turn back the clock are being fast-tracked through the Alaska legislature. Please read CSAW’s press release on this issue and, if you live in Alaska, contact the Governor's office and your local legislators and tell them you don't want to see the Alaska’s pollution laws weakened.

Thursday January 24, 2013

Low-Carbon Farming

Last Saturday (January 19), 65 volunteers responded to President Obama's call for a “National Day of Service” and turned up at CoCo San Sustainable Farm in California’s Contra Costa County and helped dig out invasive weeds and remove trash and rocks. The farm project, which has recently joined the EII family, hopes to soon get approval for a 33-acre organic farm on unused Central Contra Costa Sanitary District land. The farm will use recycled, agricultural-grade water that and is otherwise discharged into Suisan Bay. It will be growing "salads for schools" and supplying fresh vegetables to food banks.

Thursday January 24, 2013

Borneo Film at NY Fest

EII’s Borneo Project board president, Joe Lamb, will be presenting Mapping Their Own Futures — a film exploring the remarkable collaboration between Indigenous peoples and a group of dedicated volunteers, both committed to keep Borneo’s forests standing and to protect their ancestral way of life — at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York City on February 1. Lamb will be speaking about the relationship between Indigenous rights and forest conservation in Borneo. Details here.

Thursday January 24, 2013

Diving for Dirt

Hallie Austen Iglehart, the founder of another new EII project, All One Ocean, was recently featured in West Hawaii Today for organizing an underwater clean-up of the March 2011 tsunami debris in Hawa’ii’s Kealakekua Bay. The clean up, that involved two-dozen volunteers, including scuba and free divers, was one of two trash-collecting events in the bay organized by Iglehart. All One Ocean works to put up beach cleanup stations along US shorelines to encourage and enable visitors to keep their favorite beaches clean. Stay tuned for more updates from this neat project.

Thursday January 24, 2013

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