National Grandparents Day is a United States secular holiday celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day. For 2008, Grandparents Day falls on September 7th.

Even though it is a national day of observance, Grandparents Day is not very well known or celebrated here in the U.S. If any of your families are like my family, we honored our grandparents along with our parents on Mother and Father’s Day. So most grandparents are not usually expecting anything, nor do they usually want something on this day either. This makes it the perfect day to think outside the box…the gift box that is, by planting and dedicating a tree for them.

Making a tree dedication to celebrate your grandparents or to honor their memory is a great gift for those of you that care for the environment and want to celebrate your grandparents and Mother Earth together.

The gift of a tree represents a lasting tribute as it grows and flourishes through the years to come. The donation of a tree is a valuable contribution to any community. Trees produce oxygen, reduce carbon monoxide, add beauty, shade, and provide wildlife habitation.

The grandparent who was in my life the longest was my husband’s grandmother. She never wanted us to buy her gifts, sweets or flowers. Whatever the occasion, she always loved getting just two things from us, 1) Cash, and 2) a Ride to the Casino.

She wasn’t so much a tree hugging granny,    as she was a gambling granny. 

We are dedicating a tree in memory of our gambling granny. She would be happy with our choice of gift, because I’m sure wherever she is there is a casino, and she is having a great time playing the slot machines.

Here are a few organizations where you can purchase a tree.

TreePeople
Arbor Day Foundation

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The first Flash Search Engine is an Environmental Search Engine!! http://www.greenplanetsearch.com is now live!

 When Mike Haney first presented the idea behind the technology behind

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The upshot from this collaboration, apart from the stunningly beautiful homepage, is the

only people involved in the creation of the search engine, is that the only people involved

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Later, through a similar serendipity, Mr. Haney teamed up with a veteran journalist who

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Advertisers will be strictly vetted by the companies shareholders, limited to companies

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The final result, which was launched this week, is the culminating of thousands of

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It boasts easily navigable information, experiments, lesson plans, presented in an interactive and graphically enhanced format,

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“Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.  Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every foot of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man’s use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or tree could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of agriculture.

Calling All Environmentalists!!!

We must take action now to cease the destruction of OUR planet!

The government and big business are only concerned with their bottomline and not the

welfare of the peple, Yet "We the People" are the  power and the sole reason that they

exist at all!  With the government doing only what big business wants them to, we will

never have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". We must act now to change

the status quo. We will now take matters into our own hands and create the world

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political means!

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Hi everyone!

I'd like to present you a French website that deals with four major issues that are:

energy savings, domestic rubbish management, domestic air quality management and sustainable use of water.

Those issues are treated deeply, dedicated to the general public.

For the moment, the website is written in French but in a few weeks, this website will concern all european countries: all major themes will be treated in a local aspect (national market, local regulation...).

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I really hope you'll enjoy it!

See you on http://www.economiedenergie.fr

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One of the hottest new trends in ecotourism in observing sea turtles in their natural habitat.  To ensure that this travel encourages protection of endangered sea turtles, Ocean Conservancy has launched the SEE Turtles project.  By connecting travelers to sites where poaching and fishing threaten turtles, we will help to create alternatives for local residents and help to convince turtles are more valuable alive. 

 Through our site, www.seeturtles.org, you can find opportunities to take part in research and conservation efforts in Costa Rica, Baja California, and Trindad.  We are working with tour operators in each site who actively support conservation efforts, provide high quality service, and follow our best practice guidelines for turtle watching.

Sea turtles are among the most charismatic and endangered creatures on the ocean.  SEE Turtles is harnessing the power of tourism to ensure they are around for another 100 million years.

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Our creativity is an important part of our everyday lives and yet is neglected, demeaned and for many of us something we are made to feel is a luxury.

We're exploring how we can return creativity it to its rightful place in an informal way, and we'e developing a more structured training model for the future.

Live to create - creative ecology 

6th February 2008 

Though the smallest gathering so far, this may well have been the one that raised the most passionate responses in all those taking part.

in the first half of the evening we split into two groups to explore the pros and cons of all working by yourself and working in a team respectively. What was interesting was that one group really closely followed the facilitators suggestion, and looked for the negative and positive sides of certain aspects, whereas the other went for a much more organic approach and explored possibilities of working together in a very imaginative and light-hearted way.

Each aspect was written as a key word on a post it note and placed on the whiteboard for all to see.

Between the two groups, we soon had a really comprehensive picture of how working together is not only in most cases preferable, but also highly practical - enabling you to share skills and ideas, and most importantly tea and biscuits.

After a break for warm banana bread and crudites, we dived straight into the core of the evening - creative ecology. Using the image of a tree, we explored everything that the tree might need to grow and bear fruit, from pollinating insects and wind, to water and mulch and soil.

With this image in mind we looked at the process of bringing a creative project to its successful completion, and the parallels were easy to see. Not only do most creative projects involve more people and resources than many of us would think, but also the climate and timing
are vital too.

To close the evening we carried out an exercise in abundance, with each member asking the group for a specific resource or information - this quick exercise had inspiring and immediate results as we found that many of the answers already lay in the group.

We are already planning our next session - creative tools, and would love you to join us...