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Location: Ashland, Oregon
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Latest Activity: Apr 20

About Environment & Earth

Environment

Environment is the sum of the total of the elements, factors and conditions in the surroundings which may have an impact on the development, action or survival of an organism or group of organisms.
Source: Medicine.net
Slideshow: Beautiful, Beloved Earth

Environment Resources:
11th Hour (Film) with Leonardo DiCaprio
Amory Lovins & Rocky Mountain Institute
An Inconvenient Truth (Film) with Al Gore and Downloads
Aprovecho Institute
Ashland School of Environmental Education
Bioneers Conference (Annual) and Bioneers Film Series
Bring Recyclng
Budget for Restoring the Earth
Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
Carbon Farmer's of America and How Carbon Trading Works | MSNBC
Charlotte's Healthy Planet
Chemtrails Research & Video
Climate Group & Live Earth Concerts
Do Lab Event Creations (leave no trace)
Earth Gatherings
ECO '92 with David Suzuki's Daughter (Video)
Ecological Restoration and Ecological Restoration Institute
EcoTrust and Annual Report (2007)
Environmental Amnesia by Sandra Steingraber
EQ Connect: The Green Social Network
GeoFusion
GeoInsight
Global Green
Greenhouse Effect & Engineering a Cooler Planet | MSNBC
Green Maven - Green Search Engine
Hanne Strong & Earth Restoration Corps
Ecology Center of the Siskyous
Erin Brockovich (Film)
Green Pages Oregon
Headwaters News
KS Wild
Legacy of Luna (Book) by Julia Butterfly
Lomokatsi Forest Restoration
National Geographic
National Resource Center for Conservation Science & Policy
Principles of a Conservation Economy
Scorecard - Pollution Report for Your County
State of the World Report (2008) & Worldwatch Institute
The Pelican Brief (Film)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Video) and Community Solutions
Transition Towns USA and Handbook
What's Your Tree by Julia Butterfly
Wildlife Images
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Earth from Apollo 17

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the Earth, Planet Earth, the World, and Terra.

Home to millions of species, including humans, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land.
Photo: Earth from Apollo 17

Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt-water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands; liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface. Earth's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.

Purple Romance

Earth interacts with other objects in outer space, including the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This length of time is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days. The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. A cometary bombardment during the early history of the planet played a role in the formation of the oceans. Later, asteroid impacts caused significant changes to the surface environment.
Source: Wikipedia/Earth
Photo: Purple Romance

Earth Resources:
5th International Symposium on Digital Earth
Ashes & Snow (Film)
Brave New Earth
Earthball
Earth Hour (YouTube Channel)
Earth Science World Image Bank
Empower Geographics
Google Earth and Google Sky
Great Warming (film)
Living Earth
NASA Sun Earth Media Viewer
NSSDC Earth Photo Gallery
Winged Migration (Film)

Mission Statement:

The air, water, food and natural environment supports all life on earth. True environmentalism teaches us to co-exist on the physical plane along with other living creatures, plant and animals. Apply the golden rule to nature and all our relations.

Redesign our consumption patterns to live simply that others may simply live. Consume less than you produce. Learn from natural law.

Our forests, our rivers, our oceans are part of us. Love yourself and the planet for the sake of all future generations.

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RSS Environment & Earth

greenLIFE | KVTL Channel 10

Local television station covering green and sustainability issues. Sponsor of the Oregon Green Expo.

Oregon's plate is full of sustainable food | EcoTrust

Leaders say it's one bright spot in an otherwise dim economic forecast. Demand for sustainable food is strong, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.

Slow Money: Investment Strategies Appropriate to the Realities of the 21st Century

Think about it: a hundred thousand Americans providing millions of dollars a year for investment in local food systems. Is it typical philanthropy? No. Is it investing as we've come to know it? No. Is it achievable? Yes.

Shell on Trial: Landmark Trial Set to Begin Over Shell's Role in 1995 Execution of Nigerian Human Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa

A landmark trial against oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta begins this Wednesday in a federal court in New York. Fourteen years after the widely condemned execution of the acclaimed Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the court will hear allegations that Shell was complicit in his torture and execution.

Antonia Juhasz on "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report"

Now Chevron’s annual report reports that 2008 was the company’s most profitable year in history. Just ahead of Chevron’s shareholder meeting, a new report released today tells shareholders more about the hidden and underreported costs of these profits. The alternative annual report is called “The True Cost of Chevron.” It brings together stories from communities across the world—Angola, Burma, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, Ecuador, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States—all directly affected by and in struggle against Chevron’s operations. We speak to the report’s author and James Craig, media adviser for Latin America for Chevron.

Amy Goodman's New Column: "Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil"

The economy is a shambles, unemployment is soaring," the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell. Yet across the globe, from the Ecuadorian jungle, to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, to the courtrooms and streets of New York and San Ramon, Calif., people are fighting back against the world’s oil giants. Shell and Chevron are in the spotlight this week, with shareholder meetings and a historic trial being held. On May 13, the Nigerian military launched an assault on villages in that nation’s oil-rich Niger Delta. Hundreds of civilians are feared killed in the attack.

"We All Live in the Coal Fields": West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal

At least thirty people were arrested in West Virginia Saturday as protesters marked a new phase of Operation Appalachian Spring, a campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. The protests came just a week after the Obama administration gave the green light for forty-two more mountaintop removal permits in a major victory for the coal industry. We speak to journalist Jeff Biggers, author of the book United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture and Enlightenment to America. Biggers says mountaintop removal is a national issue, not a local one, as many perceive.

Native American Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth: Climate Change Bill Fails to Address Indigenous Rights

Tom Goldtooth is executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. For over thirty years, he has been an environmental and economic justice leader in the Native American community. He joins us to talk about the congressional climate change bill and Native American efforts to address the resource extractions causing environmental degradation in their communities.

inERGYhomes.com

Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes - inERGYhomes.com - Eco-Friendly, High Efficiency, High Performance Homes. Building Science Technologies and Green Building are improving the way we’re building homes. inERGY Homes is at the forefront of viewing the whole house as a system in building techniques for High Performance Homes.

National Sustainable Building Advisor Program

The National Sustainable Building Advisor Program (NaSBAP) offers a 9-month certificate training course and exam specifically designed for working professionals eager to apply sustainable concepts to the buildings they design, develop, and construct.

Keeping the stimulus clean and green | Oregon Wild

When most Americans heard the US Senate would be debating stimulus legislation last week, they most likely expected to hear about plans for green jobs and getting the US economy back on track.

Green job opportunities appear to be growing | DailyTidings.com

Sporting locally made t-shirts with their personal carbon footprint number on the back, students in Steve Schein's Sustainability Leadership class presented the results of their search for green jobs across the Pacific Northwest.

Causes on Facebook | Stop Global Warming

Global Footprint Network - Ecological Footprint - Ecological Sustainability

Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what. By making ecological limits central to decision-making, we are working to end Overshoot and create a society where all people can live well, within the means of one planet.

Lexus Hybrid Living | Toyota

EcoDesign Fair Shanghai - a movement in creation | bambu

IMO Index

The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is your specialist in quality assurance of eco-friendly products, organic agriculture and management systems.

Bambu

A distinctive range of contemporary products for the kitchen and home made from renewable materials including replacements for disposable paper products. Bambu products are created with imagination and integrity and are intended to be used and enjoyed everyday. Our designs celebrate form, color and texture using low impact materials and processes. It’s design with the planet in mind.

Human Footprint | SnagFilms

In a playful, surprising and thought-provoking portrait of our time on earth, National Geographic demonstrates, in a series of remarkable visuals, what makes up an average human life today and how everything we do has impact on the world around us. In this unique journey through life, it shows all the people you will ever know, how much waste you will produce, the amount of fuel you’ll consume and how much you’ve got to pack in during your 2,475,526,000 seconds on earth. Watch the Documentary Film for Free.

Blind Spot | SnagFilms

A documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse. Watch this documentary for free.

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Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd | Plume Paperback

What follows is the new preface...

As we observe the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, evolution has become firmly established as the central organizing principle of the biological sciences. Natural explanations for the growth of complexity through time ground all the other sciences, as well, from cosmology and chemistry to neuroscience and psychology. That everything within this universe has emerged through natural processes operating over vast spans of time is now well beyond dispute among scientists and the educated public. Yet even today, families and public school systems remain divided and the evolutionary worldview is still shunned by millions, perhaps billions, of religious believers around the world. Why?

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Videos

ConsciousWine on DenizenTV

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Marc Strauch on the Oregon Green Expo

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The Oregon Green Expo

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Jack Canfield on the Today Show

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Architects of a New Dawn

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RSS Sustainability

greenLIFE | KVTL Channel 10

Local television station covering green and sustainability issues. Sponsor of the Oregon Green Expo.

Oregon's plate is full of sustainable food | EcoTrust

Leaders say it's one bright spot in an otherwise dim economic forecast. Demand for sustainable food is strong, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.

Slow Money: Investment Strategies Appropriate to the Realities of the 21st Century

inERGYhomes.com

National Sustainable Building Advisor Program

Green job opportunities appear to be growing | DailyTidings.com

Global Footprint Network - Ecological Footprint - Ecological Sustainability

Lexus Hybrid Living | Toyota

EcoDesign Fair Shanghai - a movement in creation | bambu

IMO Index

The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is your specialist in quality assurance of eco-friendly products, organic agriculture and management systems.

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RESOURCES - Food, Air & Water

Dave's Dragon Dust - Habanero Pepper Blend with Bhut Jolokia (Naga Jolokia)

Habanero Pepper Blend with Bhut Jolokia (Naga Jolokia).

RETURN TO TRADITION

A closer look at the exceptional growers, producers and artisans who safeguard our food traditions.

Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food

"Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks."[1] They called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling.

Raw Spirit Festival

Festivals 2009, World's Leading Healthy-Living Raw Vegan-Eco-Peace Celebrations! Please come join us at one, two or all THREE festivals. All feature onsite camping and parking at beautiful locations which delight and inspire!

Alive Raw

Living foods, alternative health

Trillium Natural Foods

Lincoln City's main source for organically grown whole foods.

LifeSource Natural Foods

Our retail grocery store provides an abundant selection of high quality organic and natural food items and nutritional supplements.

Why Buy Local? - Rogue Flavor

Locally grown fruits and vegetables are usually sold within 24 hours of being harvested. Produce picked and eaten at the height of ripeness has exceptional flavor and, when handled properly, is packed with nutrients. Also, local farm products are chosen for the best flavor, not for their ability to withstand industrial harvesting equipment and extended travel.

Rogue Flavor

The Rogue River Valley is home to some of the best agricultural and artisan foods in the world. The Rogue Flavor campaign makes it easy for you to find the unique businesses that create the local flavor of our community. Savor Rogue Flavor!