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Marja and Koala at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Queensland, Australia

Marja and Koala at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Queensland, Australia

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In Tents: The Blog of Bill Pendergraft

If you haven't read Bill Pendergraft's blog, you're missing out. He's a fount of knowledge and ingenuity, a polyglot with the heart of a poet and the creativity of a master storyteller.

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Plant a Billion Trees : TreeHugger

A lot of trees get planted on Earth Day; perhaps it should merge with Friday's Arbor Day. Some do paltry greenwashing efforts like Subaru's lame160 trees others scale it up to a meaningful number. Like a billion. That is what the...

Happy Earth Day 2008 from DeviantArt

In support of Earth Day, deviantART will donate 10% of all prints sales from our Store on Earth Day (April 22nd) to The Nature Conservancy, and we invite you to support this cause as well as supporting your favorite artists.

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Money For Nothing: Donating to Charities Online... For Free!

Facebook users are funding rainforest preservation in Costa Rica by building gardens on each other's profile home pages. The (Lil) Green Patch application donates a portion of its ad revenue to The Nature Conservancy to help pres...

Money for Nothing: Web sites let you donate to charity just by doing searches or clicking on ad banners. And it doesn't cost you anything.

Facebook users are funding rainforest preservation in Costa Rica by building gardens on each other's profile home pages.

When a Facebook user installs the (Lil) Green Patch application on his or her profile, a small garden appea...

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: NpTech Tag Summary: Facebook Apps for Good and GTD

Beth Kanter rounds up all the best of Facebook, this time focusing on apps that raise money for nonprofit social causes.

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Australian Wildlife Conservancy

AWC is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of Australia's threatened wildlife and ecosystems. Funded by tax-deductible donations, AWC is taking action to protect Australia's wildlife.

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New Causes Application Looks to Raise Money Without Donations

The causes application has been up for almost a year now but many critics have complained about the lack of money earned for each cause even though millions of users have become supporters. “Support the Campaign for Cancer Resear...

National School Boards Association

The National School Boards Association is a not-for-profit Federation of state associations of school boards across the United States. Its mission is to foster excellence and equity in public education through school board leader...

Connecting Up 2008 | Nonprofit Information Technology Conference | Brisbane Australia | CU08 - News

Online and Off to the Future for Nonprofits in Australia!

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Job Opportunity: Senior Communications Associate -- Sightline Institute

Looking for a job in the Seattle area and skilled at web marketing and public relations? Join a great nonprofit think-tank that gets it right: the Sightline Institute. They're hiring a Senior Communications Associate to help pack...

The Edge of Extinction: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

Last summer, the Arctic lost more sea ice than ever before -- nearly a half-million square miles, the size of Texas and California combined -- devastating the polar bear's frozen habitat. Yet, in February, despite a huge outcry, ...

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic.

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Social Change Apps on Facebook to Support Breast Cancer, Environment, and Aids

A new suite of Facebook applications help users raise money for their favorite non-profits... for free! One of them, Stop Climate Change, raises funds for The Nature Conservancy.

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Greening Australia - Veg Futures: land management conference 20-23 October 2008

Greening Australia and Land & Water Australia invite you to Veg Futures 2008 – a comprehensive, practical conference about the nation’s most pressing challenges for vegetation management in regional and peri–urban landscapes.

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Social News for Social Good: Building Buzz and Breaking Records with Digg � SlideShare

A Web Executive Seminar presentation about how the Nature Conservancy uses Digg.com to great awareness of their news stories. The presentation was made by by by Jonathon D. Colman, Associate Director, Digital Marketing.

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Python vs. Croc: Invasion Coming to Florida

Burmese Pythons are invading the Florida Everglades after being introduced more than 10 years ago. They’ve even swum more than six miles to the Florida Keys. This is a dangerous situation for people, animals, and habitat around F...

Social News for Social Good: Building Buzz and Breaking Records with Digg

A presentation on web marketing and social news media for nonprofits that I'm giving at the National Press Club in Washington DC as part of the Forum One Communications seminar, "Social Sites for Social Change" on February 26, 20...

Campaign for a Sustainable Planet

The Nature Conservancy has launched the Campaign for a Sustainable Planet -- the largest conservation campaign in history -- to address these challenges to the Earth and ensure the health and survival of the natural world that su...

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0: It's All About You

This presentation offers a very simple breakdown (entirely in pictures) of the difference between Web 1.0 (focused on me and my site) and Web 2.0 (focused on you). Six easy slides that can help *anyone* understand the difference ...

The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life

The Nature Conservancy is my favorite environmental conservation non-profit organization.

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Biofuels Emit 420 Times More CO2 Than Fossil Fuels

A new study shows that biofuels are not a viable climate change solution. The study shows that converting natural land to farmland for biofuels is far worse for the environment than traditional fossil fuels. The study author call...

What’s Good for Trees is Good for the Economy

New bipartisan legislation helps forests by reducing fire risk and will restore jobs to rural areas hard-hit by the recession. The bill could also boost localized biofuel production. Sounds like just what the country needs

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NPR : Environmentalists Point Beyond Global Warming

Public awareness of climate change has grown dramatically in just a few years, in large part because of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Most of Gore's fellow environmentalists support his work to focus attention on global...

Worries About Water as Chinese Glacier Retreats

The Tibetan plateau has been called "the roof of the world" and "the third pole" for its ice-covered peaks. There, global warming is happening faster than at other, lower altitudes, with serious consequences for hundreds of milli...

Forests + Orangutans + Coral Reefs = Climate Issues

Climate change is about more than what comes out of your car. Read what experts have to say about the other climate change issues – deforestation, adaptation and protecting endangered species.

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84 Ways You Can Help the Planet - The Boston Globe

AT HOME SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. Energy conservation can be simple, but it has a big impact. If every home in the United States replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), the energy saved...

Add 301 redirects using .htaccess | Lancelhoff.com Simple Solutions

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears in Pumpkin Pie | snarfd

A modern miracle: The Flying Spaghetti Monster's image has mysteriously appeared in an everyday pumpkin pie!

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It’s The (Other) Algorithm, Stupid! Understanding DiggRank

Social media guru Muhammad Saleem gives us a peek behind Digg's curtain. Here's how it *really* works. Essentail reading for webmasters and trafficsourcers.

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NWF targets "Final 50" representatives for global warming legislation

If the Final 50 members of the House of Representatives endorse the Safe Climate Act or the Climate Stewardship Act, we'll surpass 218--enough to pass a bill in the House that cuts global warming pollution by 2% per year.

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snarfd: The Eclectic Compendium

snarfd is the Eclectic Compendium: a daily collection of the web’s coolest, oddest, and most beautiful destinations.

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RM Creative Events Management, Inc. - Welcome

RM Creative Events Management, Inc. provides quality, personal and professional event planning services for corporate, non-profit, organizational and social events. We will attend to all the details of your event before, during ...

Charity Navigator 2007 rating

In 2007, Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator, rated The Nature Conservancy as a high performing charity. This high rating was awarded because TNC exceeds industry standards in terms of efficiency an...

The Nature Conservancy: 2007 Holiday Green Gift Guide

Give the gift of nature this holiday -- your friends and family will adore these unique holiday gifts all year long! And you'll be happy knowing that you've made a difference for nature and people.

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Water Company and Nature Conservancy in Joint Venture

In what is being described as a one-of-a-kind model for water-supply management, the Aquarion Water Company and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) have established a water-management partnership that will attempt to hold sufficient wat...

Bald eagle: an icon soars off the endangered species list [pics]

The symbol of Stephen Colbert... Once a powerful symbol of freedom, the bald eagle became an icon of endangered species. But with a little help and an 8-foot wingspan, it's now soaring back to health. You can call the bald eagle ...

ASAE Associations Now - SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPLEMENT: Net Gains

As something of a frontier town on the information highway, Web 2.0 comes with plenty of inherent risk, and you’ll need to address it during your meeting. Members of social networks can post anything they want, including criticis...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | California's natural born killers

Earth, wind and fire formed a deadly trilogy in California this month to reduce an estimated 700 sq. miles to ash and charred remains in a matter of days. As people came to terms with their losses, ecologists began assessing the ...

Gaiam - Smart Power Strip

A next generation power strip that senses when connected devices are idle, and switches off. No more wasted phantom power.

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Catalog Choice - Eliminate unwanted catalogs

An interesting new service which allows you to select the catalogs now clogging your mailbox. Catalog Choice then gets you taken off the mailers. Save some trees!

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Explosives Aid Wetland Restoration, Endangered Species in Oregon

First come the blasts: The thunderous sounds of more than 100 tons of explosives ripping through tightly packed soil.

Then, the water — more than 2,500 acres flooded in less than an hour.

This isn’t a scene from a Hollywood b...

Major Explosions to Restore Wetlands in Oregon's Klamath Basin

Today, The Nature Conservancy and partners will detonate approximately two miles of levees to restore wetlands at the Conservancy’s 7,400 acre Williamson River Delta Preserve in southern Oregon. This will require 100 tons of expl...

Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability by Andrew Revkin

By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientist...

2007 California Wildfires: Your Questions Answered

Eighteen fires have ravaged Southern California this week, destroying more than 1,600 homes and causing more than $1 billion in damage. Our hearts go out to the individuals directly affected by this disaster.

While current atten...

Saving the Heart of the Adirondacks

Over a century ago, a group of visionary New Yorkers made a landmark decision to create the largest, most unique park in the entire country. A 6 million-acre collection of publicly protected lands declared "forever wild," intersp...

Blasting levees part of effort to revive Oregon lake - USATODAY.com

A national conservation group plans to blow up 2 miles of levees Tuesday on Oregon's Upper Klamath Lake in an unprecedented move to improve wildlife habitat, water storage and water quality downstream.

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YouTube - The Nature Conservancy

Welcome to the YouTube channel of The Nature Conservancy, the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

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Action Headquarters

Stay up-to-date on important wildlife issues with two or three emails a month, filled with information about how you can speak up for wildlife.

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