(short version) The World Resources Institute and partners recently previewed Global Forest Watch 2.0, a powerful new forest monitoring and management initiative, at a side event at the United Nations Forum on Forests 10 (UNFF) in Istanbul. Speakers included:

Zulkifli Hasan: Minister of Forestry, Indonesia
Kerri-Ann Jones: Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Wu Hongbo: Under-Secretary-General, United Nations
Naoko Ishii: CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Tim Christophersen: Senior Program Officer, Forests and Climate Change, UNEP
Nigel Sizer: Director, Global Forests Initiative, World Resources Institute

In Irish mythology, trees are a symbol of wealth. The Irish Government is moving closer to a huge sell-off of the public forests managed by Coillte (The Irish Forestry Board) to private investors. An area greater than 1 million acres, equivalent to two medium sized counties will be lost forever. This will include some of our most valuable native woodlands, wild places and some of the last refuges of our native flora and fauna.  Sign petition here.

Interest has been expressed by Swiss finance company Helvetia Wealth - who own the International Forestry Fund (IFF) - chaired by Bertie Ahern, (ex-prime minister of Ireland) as well as The China Investment Corporation.

Uploaded on Mar 7, 2011

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help...
http://woodlandleague.org/

Trashed - No Place For Waste (Website) looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. It is a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians and ordinary individuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution.

Beaverton, Ore. startup Puralytics with an Oregon BEST commercialization grant, as an industry-university team, is developing a floating, solar-activated stormwater treatment device, a nano lilly pad, that could be deployed in retaining ponds or ditches along roadways and parking lots to keep contaminants from reaching streams.

"Todd Jarvis and his team at Oregon State University (OSU) are great partners, and they have the analytical horsepower to provide the third-party testing and data our company needs," said Mark Owen, CEO of Puralytics.

We are off the edge of history. Watch Professor Lord Anthony Giddens discuss the politics of climate change as part of Durham Castle Lecture Series on 31st October 2012.

Published on Nov 7, 2012

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Jessy Tolkan serves as the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition,a coalition of 50 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S.and Canada, and hub of the Youth Climate Movement. The Energy Action Coalition leverages the powerof young people to organize on college campuses, high schools,and in local communities to build models of the clean energy future.Prior to her work at the Energy Action Coalition, Tolkan worked withleading advocacy and grassroots organizations including:United States Student Association, Young Democrats of America,and Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. As of February 15, 2010, Jessy willbegin her new role as the Political Director for Green For All,an organization committed to building the green economy strongenough to create millions of green pathways out of povertyfor low income people. In 2008, Tolkan was named one of 100 agentsof change by Rolling Stone Magazine. Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010 Source

Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air - the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.

Uploaded on Apr 27, 2011

Urban Ecosysterms: Permaculture entrepreneur Jason Raschke shows off his own space, an urban oasis, and shows us how to landscape an urban yard. Restoration of native habitat, attracting birds, bees and some food crops.  Compost and worm bins are part of the picture.