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• Winnipegger rescued by shiny-shoed stranger

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  A frail, elderly Winnipeg woman narrowly avoided being stranded at a U.S. airport thanks to a stranger in shiny shoes who transformed into her guardian angel.
  18 hours ago

• Hello, 2010!

  
  Imaginary Sunshine — Authority: 128
  Whee, new theme for welcoming in 2010! The photo was taken by my mom when she was on vacation. I’ve also rearranged things and removed some things from my sidebar *points to the side*. I changed the number of Flickr images that show up and just changed up the way things show up over there. Also, some pages have been ...
  4 days ago

• Be a Human Being- Vegetarianism

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 612
  Hi everyone. Do you know that human beings were created to be Herbivores, but trends changed and today more than half the human population depend on Non-Vegetarian food. What is the cause of this change? Basically Non-Vegetarian foods have higher Protein content and this lured people into eating animal products. There ...
  1 week ago

• Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  As apart of a deal with Norway to preserve its rainforests, Guyana will step up oversight of its gold mining industry, which has been accused of causing significant environmental damage including deforestation and mercury and cyanide pollution.
  2 weeks ago

• Dead REDD? Not quite, but plan to protect forests suffers set back in Copenhagen

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A plan to reduce tropical deforestation by paying developing countries to protect forests was postponed Saturday after world leaders failed to produce a binding climate agreement, reports the Associated Press.
  2 weeks ago

• SEAL THE DEAL!

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 118
       The Seal the Deal! campaign is mobilising political leaders, the business sector and civil society on an ambitious, global scale to raise a strong call for urgent and united action on climate change.     Combating climate change is an investment with strong returns, today and for many generations to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Kenya has become the first in Africa to win GOLD level validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Alliances REDD Standard, a certification program to ensure that communities and biodiversity benefit from such projects.
  2 weeks ago

• Russell Ferguson Wins, Adam Lambert Sings on So You Think You Can Dance Finale Sponsor: http://www.luktagott.nu

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 475
  Overcoming an injury early in the evening, Russell Ferguson limped to victory on last night’s So You Think You Can Dance finale. Due to a knee he told the audience was “messed up,” the 20-year old Boston native was unable to perform his second routine on the show, as Ferguson was in clear pain when host Cat ...
  2 weeks ago

• AnnaLynne McCord or Jessica Stroup: Who Would You Rather… Sponsor: http://www.luktagott.nu

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 475
  The challenge is on, AnnaLynne McCord! A day after the actress showed serious cleavage in a photo spread for Cosmopolitan , co-star Jessica Stroup has upped the hot ante in a pictorial for Complex . Inside the January 2010 issue of the magazine, Stroup praises the strength of her gender, saying: “Women rule men’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• More than half worlds science academies support call to save rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  More than half worlds science academies have signed a statement supporting a plan to save tropical forests as a means to fight climate change, reports the Global Canopy Program, an initiative that has worked closely with Prince Charles to promote rainforest conservation. The statement argues that tropical forest ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. pledges $1B towards rainforest conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The U.S. will contribute $1 billion towards an effort to reduce emissions from deforestation, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
  2 weeks ago

• Googles Earth Engine to help tropical countries monitor forests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A powerful forest monitoring application unveiled last week by Google will be made freely available to developing countries as a means to build the capacity to quality for compensation under REDD, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism that would pay tropical countries for protecting forests, according to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rich logging countries open logging loophole in plan to reduce deforestation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  While one tropical forest policy group saw hopeful signs emerging in the most recent revision of the negotiating text on the reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) mechanism at climate talks in Copenhagen, activist groups are warning that there remains a substantial logging loophole for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Progress made on two key REDD issues in Copenhagen

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Negotiators in Copenhagen have made progress on two key issues for the reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) mechanism, reports a forest policy group.
  3 weeks ago

• COP15: Marriott waves the REDD flag

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 124
  In Amazonas, Brazil’s largest state, children and adults are going to school for the first time, families are paid $25 a month and startup businesses and community organizations are getting funded. The money comes from the state government and corporations including Marriott International, two Brazilian banks, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tara Reid’s Playboy Cover Photo (PICTURE)

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  Actress Tara Reid isn’t acting much anymore, but she is posing topless for the upcoming issue of Playboy. Reid graces the cover of the January/February double issue, although she avoided going fully nude inside. Read more from the original source:  Tara Reid’s Playboy Cover Photo (PICTURE)
  3 weeks ago

• AFI’s Top-10 List Of 2009 Movies

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  LOS ANGELES — The dramas “Precious” and “The Hurt Locker,” the comedies “Up in the Air” and “The Hangover” and the animated tales “Up” and “Coraline” are among the top-10 movies of the year chosen by the American Film Institute. Also on the AFI’s list are the dramas “The Messenger,” ...
  3 weeks ago

• New REDD text is weak, say activists

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Activist group have condemned the latest draft text of an agreement that aims to protect rainforests as a means to mitigate climate change.
  3 weeks ago

• REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The political definition of forest used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the programs objective to conserve ecosystems for their ability to sequester carbon, according to a new analysis by the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Partnership for Tropical ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Endorses Problematic Avoided Deforestation

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 139
  About a week before President Obama is scheduled to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen , hes already making some discouraging statements about climate change mitigation strategies. The Guardian reports that after receiving his Nobel Peace Price this morning, Obama said that avoided deforestation ...
  3 weeks ago

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