Hello, my name is Evan Johnson and I am currently interning at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. Much of my work has been focused on helping assist research studies that OHSU doctors are…
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/16/illegal-wildlife-trader-arrested-selling-live-baby-orangutan-online?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-04-16 The poor little guy, at the bottom of a knapsack at an airport, man arrested.
This is something i read today, it's about not becoming too wrapped up in our devices, phones, computers, that we need to stay grounded and present, in the now, touch somone's hand, give someone a hug, be in the now and be…
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/21/who-is-buying-organic?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-04-22 Organics turn a corner and geographically sales are at all time highs. In the Pacific Northwest where i live it's 86 percent.…
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Larry-Kudlow-Kennedy-2016-Democrats/2015/04/22/id/640127/?ns_mail_uid=95761859&ns_mail_job=1617941_04232015&s=al&dkt_nbr=r2g73ig7 Hillary Clinton gets lots of talk about her run…
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-amazon-trees-that-do-the-most-to-slow-global-warming/ Amazon trees can show slowering global warming. From the article Within the botanical menagerie that makes up the Amazon…
I have an idea to make an online site/store to sell handmade things out of repurposed materials. My thought is that this can provide an income for the crafters, but also provide information about crafters / artists worldwide…
http://blog.nwf.org/2015/05/oil-pipeline-rupture-soaks-santa-barbara-beaches-coastal-habitats/?s_email_id=20150523_MEM_ENG_WLO_May_Edition|STAct Oregonians send their condolences for the oil spill that you are having to…
The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving and community education initiatives which seek to…
The Environmental Defense Fund located in the United States is looking for a college student or recent graduate to join its team as an Economic Policy Intern in either New York or Boston. This intern's key responsibilities…
Call For Applications: Rwanda/DRC And Uganda Trips The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is pleased to announce its first ever cross-border reporting trip to Rwanda/DRC and second reporting trip to Uganda. Ten…
"It is easy to ignore the magnitude of environmental impacts and climate change when people cannot see them on a daily basis." Source - click here Are you not able to visit the exhibition in NYC? But look, what a great…
A New American & A New America: Working for Earth The After Effects of The Great March for Climate Action[i] Here in the midst of America, as experienced in my Pacific Northwest, I’m deliberating Radical Conservationism[…
As I have been reading the submissions to the Climate Justice Initiative, I kept wondering if there was an issue that I needed to speak up for and I kept hearing a voice say “water”. When I thought about it some more, I…
By Stephen Bartlett, Agricultural Missions, and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds “Our liberation starts because we can plant what we eat. This is food sovereignty,” said Miriam Miranda, Coordinator of the Fraternal Black…
The 2015 USFood Sovereignty Prize will be awarded on October 14 in Des Moines, Iowa. This year, one of the two winners is the Federation of Southern Cooperatives , a network of cooperatives, almost all of them comprised of…
http://www.everydayhealth.com/solutions/stories/multiple-sclerosis-video... I knew this to be true, i started tripping a lot and was told i had sympathetic nerve distrophy in my foot, going years to Physical Therapy,…
http://www.mycounterpane.com/users/dide22?commentid=19836 Read my story about staying positive and active to keep a happy life. When i found out i had MS i was at first afraid but after i educated myself about the disease, i…
We are looking for individuals who have the potential to be catalysts for change and recognize the need to create a future that is notdriven by materialism and greed, but rooted in the spiritual values of interconnectedness…
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/climate-deal-obama-planet/2015/12/12/id/705549/?ns_mail_uid=95761859&ns_mail_job=1646366_12132015&s=al&dkt_nbr=phmf2veu Obama and hundred other countries sign agreement to reduce…
Carnegie Mellon Study Finds Eating Lettuce Is More Than Three Times Worse in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Than Eating Bacon By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / [email protected] Contrary to recent headlines — and a talk by actor Arnold…
