Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Carol Ness A forest-to-be of redwood trees and red-berried toyon shrubs sprouted on a hillside near Lawrence Hall of Science over the weekend, thanks to the hard work of 100 volunteers from the UC Berkeley campus and community. The saplings are native species, and were planted to replace [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State Live According to Mike Henry, when visiting a developing country, the fastest way to cross cultural barriers and make friends is to wield a pickaxe. And that’s exactly what he plans to do later this month when he arrives in Ghana. That doesn’t sound like a very friendly gesture until you [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State Live When you’re closely involved with something, it’s easy to take for granted how good it is. But for junior Veronica Pasi, spending 10 weeks last summer managing invasive plant species as part of a hands-on internship in Illinois’s Glacial Park provided a new appreciation for her Penn State education. A [...]

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Courtesy of the National Science Foundation Students from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New York and Washington were in Greenland this summer as part of the Joint Science Education Program, a cultural and scientific exchange between Denmark, Greenland and the United States, under the guidance of teachers from all three nations.     Tweet

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My life is my message. – Mahatma Gandhi   In this inspiring TEDx Talk, solutionary, Zoe Weil reminds us that our lives are our message.     Zoe Weil is the co-founder and President of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). IHE works to create a humane, just, and sustainable world for people, animals, and [...]

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By Emily Cochrane for Florida International University News It’s 9 a.m. on a July morning. The temperature has already surpassed 85 degrees. Most people are huddling in their cool, air-conditioned havens, but not Ryan Vogel. The FIU student is already hard at work in FIU’s Nature Preserve, his shirt stained with perspiration and his black [...]

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The United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, in association with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and leading nature filmmakers worldwide, invites filmmakers world-wide to take part in a first-ever global multimedia initiative, to remind us all how vital forests are. Submissions are accepted until December 15th, 2012. For more information visit Forests for People: [...]

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Ocean advocates and surfers, Laird Hamilton and Kelly Meyer lead a call for action to protect our oceans. Tweet

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World Environment Day Links Find a World Environment Day Activity in your part of the world. History of World Environment Day Tweet

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By Tom Ventsias University of Maryland Campus News What’s driving environmentally friendly legislation and “green” activism in the United States? Nobel prizewinner Al Gore and senior members of Congress, or your neighbor digging dirt in a community garden? A University of Maryland sociologist is conducting research in the hallways of Congress, the offices of top [...]

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