IslandWire: News From Earth Island http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWire/ en matthew@earthisland.org Copyright 2010 2010-08-20T00:05:47+00:00 Youth Be Told http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/youth-be-told/ If you are reading this before 6:30 p.m. Pacific and are in Berkeley, stop!!! head on over to our Earth Island Presents . . . event ‘Celebrating Young Activists: Building a Green Movement & Changing the World’.

However, if you cannot be with us tonight to celebrate the achievements of young environmentalists, join us two months from today for our 11th annual Brower Youth Awards on October 19, 2010.

BYA—the premiere awards honoring bold young environmental leaders —will honor six young activist heroes at our lively and inspiring awards at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Support our New Leaders Initiative by buying a ticket for the BYA Opening Reception or just come on out for the BYA Ceremony and applaud these young green achievers for free, but be sure to reserve your spot today!

]]> If you are reading this before 6:30 p.m. Pacific and are in Berkeley, stop!!! head on over to our Earth Island Presents . . . event ‘Celebrating Young Activists: Building a Green Movement & Changing the World’.

However, if you cannot be with us tonight to celebrate the achievements of young environmentalists, join us two months from today for our 11th annual Brower Youth Awards on October 19, 2010.

BYA—the premiere awards honoring bold young environmental leaders —will honor six young activist heroes at our lively and inspiring awards at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Support our New Leaders Initiative by buying a ticket for the BYA Opening Reception or just come on out for the BYA Ceremony and applaud these young green achievers for free, but be sure to reserve your spot today!

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Story Honor http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/story-honor/ Speaking of excellent Journal features, Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark was honored by the Society for Environmental Journalists in their 9th annual journalism contest for “Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print.” The SEJ contest judges cited Jason’s Autumn 2009 Journal cover story “Hacking the Sky” “Mark’s explanation of the emerging and controversial notion of geo-engineering was authoritative without being wonkish, and brought an important piece of environmental science vividly to life.”

]]> Speaking of excellent Journal features, Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark was honored by the Society for Environmental Journalists in their 9th annual journalism contest for “Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print.” The SEJ contest judges cited Jason’s Autumn 2009 Journal cover story “Hacking the Sky” “Mark’s explanation of the emerging and controversial notion of geo-engineering was authoritative without being wonkish, and brought an important piece of environmental science vividly to life.”

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Engulfed http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/engulfed/ The Autumn 2010 Earth Island Journal is in the mail to our members and subscribers and it will be on newsstands soon, but why wait?  You can read the excellent investigative features on the catastrophic BP Gulf oil spill on our website.

]]> The Autumn 2010 Earth Island Journal is in the mail to our members and subscribers and it will be on newsstands soon, but why wait?  You can read the excellent investigative features on the catastrophic BP Gulf oil spill on our website.

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Bag it! http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/bag-it/ Join Earth Island project, the Plastic Pollution Coalition for the Film Festival to Support California Single-Use Bag Reduction Act, AB 1998. The festival will screen important and entertaining films on the world’s most common consumer product and plague to the environment: the single-use plastic bag. Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. @ UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. For more information please contact Lisa Boyle, Esq. at lisa at plasticpollutioncoalition.org.

]]> Join Earth Island project, the Plastic Pollution Coalition for the Film Festival to Support California Single-Use Bag Reduction Act, AB 1998. The festival will screen important and entertaining films on the world’s most common consumer product and plague to the environment: the single-use plastic bag. Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:00 p.m. @ UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. For more information please contact Lisa Boyle, Esq. at lisa at plasticpollutioncoalition.org.

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Content Partners http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/content-partners/ If a hard-hitting new issue and honors from fellow journalists weren’t enough, we are also thrilled to announce that Earth Island Journal is now a part of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets, including The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Grist.org, and many others. The Journal was also recently made a content partner on the Guardian (UK) Environment Network, a web portal for “news and comment from the world’s best environment sites.”

]]> If a hard-hitting new issue and honors from fellow journalists weren’t enough, we are also thrilled to announce that Earth Island Journal is now a part of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets, including The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Grist.org, and many others. The Journal was also recently made a content partner on the Guardian (UK) Environment Network, a web portal for “news and comment from the world’s best environment sites.”

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Blog it! http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/blog-it/ Travel through Central Asia from your desktop by reading the lively blogs of three of our Earth Island projects:

Follow Earth Island’s Jennifer Castner, project director of The Altai Project on her travels through the Altai, a uniquely diverse, mountainous region of southern Siberia.

And join Earth Island’s Ono Ganzorig, project director of Mongol Environmental Conservation on a 4,000 km journey across the Mongolian steppes, desert, and the capital city of Ulaanbataar.

This summer, Melissa Prager, Program Manager of the Center for Safe Energy journeyed from Odessa’s Black Sea to Siberia’s Lake Baikal meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Read her EcoTravel Blog.

]]> Travel through Central Asia from your desktop by reading the lively blogs of three of our Earth Island projects:

Follow Earth Island’s Jennifer Castner, project director of The Altai Project on her travels through the Altai, a uniquely diverse, mountainous region of southern Siberia.

And join Earth Island’s Ono Ganzorig, project director of Mongol Environmental Conservation on a 4,000 km journey across the Mongolian steppes, desert, and the capital city of Ulaanbataar.

This summer, Melissa Prager, Program Manager of the Center for Safe Energy journeyed from Odessa’s Black Sea to Siberia’s Lake Baikal meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Read her EcoTravel Blog.

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Dolphin Planet http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/dolphin-planet/ Tune in to Discovery’s Animal Planet on Friday August 27th at 11p.m. E/P just after the season finale of Whale Wars for the first episode of the new mini-series Blood Dolphin$. Picking up where the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove left off, this new series features the tireless efforts of Earth Island’s Ric O’Barry, director of our Save Japan Dolphins campaign and our International Marine Mammal Project team’s dolphin protection work around the world, including our efforts to save Solomon Islands’ dolphins.  Watch the Animal Planet promo trailer for Blood Dolphin$ and visit the series’ website: animal.discovery.com/tv/blood-dolphins.

]]> Tune in to Discovery’s Animal Planet on Friday August 27th at 11p.m. E/P just after the season finale of Whale Wars for the first episode of the new mini-series Blood Dolphin$. Picking up where the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove left off, this new series features the tireless efforts of Earth Island’s Ric O’Barry, director of our Save Japan Dolphins campaign and our International Marine Mammal Project team’s dolphin protection work around the world, including our efforts to save Solomon Islands’ dolphins.  Watch the Animal Planet promo trailer for Blood Dolphin$ and visit the series’ website: animal.discovery.com/tv/blood-dolphins.

]]> Thursday August 19, 2010 Inspirational Youth Share Their Passion http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/inspirational-youth-share-their-passion/ Join Earth Island’s New Leaders Initiative and Earth Island Presents… at the David Brower Center on Thursday, August 19th for ‘Celebrating Young Activists: Building a Green Movement & Changing the World’ (eii.org/events/youth).

Hear from today’s young environmental leaders, featuring Julia Butterfly Hill, the inspirational activist & co-founder of the Engage Network and the inspiration behind What’s Your Tree? Julia will moderate a conversation with recent Brower Youth Award (BYA) honorees; Alec Loorz  (BYA09), Hai Vo (BYA09), Rachel Barge (BYA07), & Shadia Fayne Wood (BYA04).

Representatives from local Bay Area environmental youth groups – such as 350.org, Action for Nature, Bay Area Wilderness Training, Communities for a Better Environment, Green Café Network, Just Food, Living Laboratories, Movement Generation, Project Jatropha Earth Team, Rooted in Community – will be on hand to share information about their work in the local community as well. Tickets are available at eii.org/events/celebrate. Sliding scale $10 – $20 / $5 – $10 if 21 years of age or younger.

]]> Join Earth Island’s New Leaders Initiative and Earth Island Presents… at the David Brower Center on Thursday, August 19th for ‘Celebrating Young Activists: Building a Green Movement & Changing the World’ (eii.org/events/youth).

Hear from today’s young environmental leaders, featuring Julia Butterfly Hill, the inspirational activist & co-founder of the Engage Network and the inspiration behind What’s Your Tree? Julia will moderate a conversation with recent Brower Youth Award (BYA) honorees; Alec Loorz  (BYA09), Hai Vo (BYA09), Rachel Barge (BYA07), & Shadia Fayne Wood (BYA04).

Representatives from local Bay Area environmental youth groups – such as 350.org, Action for Nature, Bay Area Wilderness Training, Communities for a Better Environment, Green Café Network, Just Food, Living Laboratories, Movement Generation, Project Jatropha Earth Team, Rooted in Community – will be on hand to share information about their work in the local community as well. Tickets are available at eii.org/events/celebrate. Sliding scale $10 – $20 / $5 – $10 if 21 years of age or younger.

]]> Thursday August 5, 2010 Utility Boxes: A Blank Canvas http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/utility-boxes-a-blank-canvas/ Please check out, and follow, EII’s new blog (60boxesproject.blogspot.com) about Streets Alive and the 60 Boxes Project! The 60 Boxes project, an initiative of the Streets Alive! program at Earth Island Institute, combines and promotes art and nature in downtown Berkeley. The project aims to work with artists, businesses, and community members to bring vibrant art to unexpected places: 60 dull, grey utility boxes in downtown Berkeley. Local artists will paint each box according to the theme of “Sustainability,” creating public art and resonating with themes important to the Berkeley community. If you are an artist local to the Bay Area with interest in participating, please submit your portfolios to Ariana Katovich at ariana at earthisland.org. We are working hard to make this a reality. Special thanks to our rock-star intern, Casey Ogden, for launching the blog!

]]> Please check out, and follow, EII’s new blog (60boxesproject.blogspot.com) about Streets Alive and the 60 Boxes Project! The 60 Boxes project, an initiative of the Streets Alive! program at Earth Island Institute, combines and promotes art and nature in downtown Berkeley. The project aims to work with artists, businesses, and community members to bring vibrant art to unexpected places: 60 dull, grey utility boxes in downtown Berkeley. Local artists will paint each box according to the theme of “Sustainability,” creating public art and resonating with themes important to the Berkeley community. If you are an artist local to the Bay Area with interest in participating, please submit your portfolios to Ariana Katovich at ariana at earthisland.org. We are working hard to make this a reality. Special thanks to our rock-star intern, Casey Ogden, for launching the blog!

]]> Thursday August 5, 2010 Hey Costa Rica, Follow Your Own Laws! http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/getInvolved/islandWireItem/hey-costa-rica-follow-your-own-laws/ Once a shining star on Ethical Traveler‘s “Ethical Destinations” list (ethicaltraveler.org), Costa Rica was dropped from the list when it became one of the world’s main hubs for sex trafficking. Today, Costa Rica is wrestling with another menace: shark finning. Shark finning is the act of slicing off the fin of a living shark and discarding it back into the sea, where it dies a horrible death. The amputated fins are then exported to Asia, where they are used to make an ominous delicacy: shark fin soup. Despite the passage of a law banning shark finning in Costa Rica, the practice continues. Ethical Traveler has partnered with PRETOMA to save the sharks, and help Costa Rica reclaim its place as an eco-friendly destination. To take action please sign on to Ethical Traveler’s campaign letter (ethicaltraveler.org/costa-rica-shark-finning).

]]> Once a shining star on Ethical Traveler‘s “Ethical Destinations” list (ethicaltraveler.org), Costa Rica was dropped from the list when it became one of the world’s main hubs for sex trafficking. Today, Costa Rica is wrestling with another menace: shark finning. Shark finning is the act of slicing off the fin of a living shark and discarding it back into the sea, where it dies a horrible death. The amputated fins are then exported to Asia, where they are used to make an ominous delicacy: shark fin soup. Despite the passage of a law banning shark finning in Costa Rica, the practice continues. Ethical Traveler has partnered with PRETOMA to save the sharks, and help Costa Rica reclaim its place as an eco-friendly destination. To take action please sign on to Ethical Traveler’s campaign letter (ethicaltraveler.org/costa-rica-shark-finning).

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