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Say Something! Ocean Voices Project Collects Your Experiences, Impressions Of Our Seas

Photo via Ma.Ka. What would the world be like without oceans? What does it feel like to be in the ocean? How does the ocean affect your life on a daily basis? These are some of the prompts given to participants in an extraordinary new sound project called Ocean Voices. Last week, the California Academy of Sciences hosted the premiere of Ocean Voices , a project that collects people’s thoughts, experiences, impressions and musings on our oceans. It’s a powerful listening experience, with layers of sound creating an i… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Top 10 Tips for Creating School and Community Fundraisers That Don’t Suck!

Image credit: devinlynnx /Flickr Do you have the urge to run and hide when you see your child or co-worker approaching with that all too familiar order form? Does your mind automatically turn to visions of stale caramel corn moldering in the office kitchen? Or maybe you shudder at the thought of a giant footprint of the scented candles and wrapping paper sitting on your re-gifting shelf in the hall closet? As a father and the co-founder of school and community fundraising company, A Part of Something Big , I know how you feel. Cri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spill In ‘Gulf Of BP’ Affecting Virginia Gubernatorial Politics: Where Next?

Seascape from Virginia Beach VA. Image credit: Destination360.com It’s a third of a continent away but somehow the continuous gusher the Gulf of Mexico – rebranded lately as the ‘ Gulf of BP ‘ – has both Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia whistling lively new political tunes. According to the Baltimore Sun , Democratic Governor “…O’Malley has grown steadily … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Time to Stop Waiting For Others to Teach Our Kids Eco Literacy

It seems not a day goes by when you hear about school budgets being radically cut, or even closed, and as a result the educational future of our next generation in uncertainty, lacking in depth & breadth. Theater, music, even the always preserved sports are being left to the side, in favor of focusing on how to train good test takers, to better secure funding…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Plastiki’s Quest, and Questioning Plastic

Images via The Plastiki Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world. The formula appears to be simple: The more we package, mechanize, and force nature into the background, the more developed and evolved our society will become. What we produce and consume has become a representation of our values and identities. The almost automated desire to take nature and manipulate it to m… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stop West Virginia’s Spruce Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

Photo courtesy of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and SouthWings. While we watch the continuing BP oil disaster in the Gulf, there is another form of dirty, destructive, energy we need to break free from: Coal. A very important deadline is rapidly approaching —on June 1st the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will stop taking public comments on its proposed veto of the permit that would allow devastating mountaintop removal coal mining at the massive Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, West Virginia…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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