Dear friends, Brazil's top environmental regulator resigned last week under pressure to allow the hugely destructive Belo Monte Dam Complex, which would scar the Amazon and displace thousands of people. Protect the Amazon, its people, and its species -- sign the petition to Brazil's President Dilma opposing the dam and calling for energy efficiency instead: Last Wednesday, Brazil's top environmental regulator resigned...

Stumbling across this article, I was struck bu its openeness and common sense approach- Without taking side, driving you onto a high or burrying you in a depression, its down to earth approach synthesizes most things we heard, think could be good, but never really got down to put in practice Here is another chance to have a stab at it .... The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first...

And you will find down to earth information about  Forests and what you can do to become involved; This taster comes from their website but there is so much more there to discover and enjoy ... head for  http://www.iucn.org/(To see more outstanding photos , head for the IUCN flickr gallery)Bring back lost and degraded forests, says IUCN ...

URGENCE POUR LES ABEILLES -- AGISSEZ MAINTENANT!Signez la pétition Au Ministre Français de l'Agriculture M. Le Maire et au Président de la Commission Européenne M. Barroso:Nous vous appelons à interdire immédiatement l'utilisation des pesticides néonicotinoïdes jusqu'à ce que et seulement si de nouvelles études scientifiques indépendantes prouvent leur innocuité. Le déclin catastrophique des populations d'abeilles pourrait mettre toute...

Wow! Over the weekend half a million of us have signed to save bees. Let's get to a million for the ban -- sign now, then send this to everyone Dear friends, Bees are dying off worldwide and our entire food chain is in peril. Scientists blame toxic pesticides and four European governments have already banned them. If we get the US and the EU to join the ban, other governments across the world could follow, and save bees from...

If only...If only , instead of arrogantly dismissing each other mutual but distinct benefits, healers of the world could concentrate on pointing to recovery rather than filling their respective ego and material pockets...In the light of the harrassing of Dr Wakefield for his whistle blowing work on vaccines and Big CO - in this case the unimaginably lucrative market of world vaccines, and the permanent attempt to remove freedom of medical choices to the individual ( European April deadline ) one can but smile warily at the following...

Regardless to where one believes oneself to stand, the discussions around the ancient Mayan Calendars ( and other major civilisations) highlight some strong common denominators- Perhaps rather than arrogant stupidity in pretending to brush everything related to this topic under the hocus pocus brush, we could well take the essence of those ideas in our end of year closing thoughts and remember that reality is not always as obvious as it...