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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

A Guide to Greening Cafes

EII’s Green Cafe Network (GCN) is proud to announce that Module 1 of the Green Guide for Café Operators is now available online. The Green Guide is a series of digital booklets, published in modules, that cover key strategies that cafe operators can adopt for energy conservation, waste reduction, water conservation, and toxics reduction. The guide — available as a PDF, and on Kindle and iPad/iPhone — was developed in partnership with GCN, the Food Service Technology Center and the SCAA Sustainability Council. Subsequent modules will be published later this year. Click here for preview of Module 1 and to buy a copy. And please spread the word to your favorite coffeehouse operators!

Thursday January 24, 2013

Best of the Journal

Get the latest environmental news from Earth Island Journal. Here are our favorites from the last few weeks.
Most Popular: A Rebuttal to Mark Lynas’ GMO Reversal

Editors’ Pick: The True Story Behind the Set of "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Thursday January 24, 2013

Dreaming in Green

EII's Armenian Environmental Network is pleased to announce the creation of its San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter. The inaugural event at the University of San Francisco this Sunday, January 27, boasts an expert speaker panel that will discuss the goals of the new chapter as well as the importance of Armenia's environment to its long-term development. The event is open to the public. For details, click here.

Thursday January 24, 2013

Changing Landscapes

Join Ryan Phelan of the Long Now Foundation and artist-scientist Laura Cunningham at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA on Wednesday, January 30, as they explore the theme of changing landscapes and time's effect on them. This event is FREE, but RSVP is required.

Thursday January 24, 2013

A Work-Party!

EII’s Bay Localize invites you to join them, Oakland’s Chestnut Street neighbors, and People's Grocery’s Urban Ag crew on Saturday, February 2, to work on sidewalk planter boxes, create community art, and fix sidewalk benches on a strip of Chestnut Street behind the historic California Hotel. Bay Localize has partnered with People's Grocery to host monthly garden party workdays in the area on the first Saturday of every month. Next month’s work-party will have a black history theme. Details here.

Thursday January 24, 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 10th-17th. Registration is now open

Thursday January 24, 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 10th-17th. Registration is now open.

Thursday January 10, 2013

Oil Chemicals Workshops

Many of the dangerous chemicals used in fracking, drilling, and dispersing oil pose significant risk to public health and the environment. Riki Ott, director of EII’s Ultimate Civics, will be touring Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana in February to conduct community-organizing workshops that help residents initiate bans on chemical dispersants at a local level. This is part of a national action. In April, Ott will conduct similar workshops in Austin, Dallas, and Houston communities impacted by oil industry activities. Check Ott’s schedule here.

Thursday January 10, 2013

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