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Everybody’s Movement; Environmental Justice and Climate Change
December 5, 2009 - Angela Park, Environmental Support Center
This report (attached) was written by Angela Park and funded by the Alki Fund of the Tides Foundation, and by the Town Creek Foundation. We hope that this report sparks a series of dialogues about global warming, equitable solutions, and how to engage a broader range of Americans in these critical conversations.  Go >

Where The Green Grants Went
December 4, 2009 - Jon Cracknell
The new edition of Where The Green Grants Went is now available as a PDF on the Environmental Funders Network website, www.greenfunders.org. The report forms part of the growing body of research into environmental grant-making, following on from EGA’s Tracking the Field, volume 2, and it has benefitted from conversations between the environmental funder networks in the US, Canada, Australia, continental Europe, and the UK.  Go >

EGA Blogs and Tweets from COP-15
December 2, 2009
Starting December 13th, EGA will be blogging and tweeting from Copenhagen. Please log-in for a on the ground update.  Go >

The Embarrassing Death Of Environmentalism
February 9, 2009 - Peter Montague, Rachel's Democracy & Health News #997
The essay, "Death of Environmentalism" has now been expanded into a book called "Break Through" in which two 30-something white guys claim they can show us the way to a new "politics of possibility" including "a new and better ecological movement." It's embarrassing.  Go >

Applications for 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Award Program Now Being Accepted
January 25, 2008
Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Award Program. Deadline for application is February 27, 2008. The Sabbatical Award Program annually awards nonprofit health organizations $35,000 each to cover their chief executives' salary, benefits and other related expenses during the sabbatical, which lasts a minimum of three months. The application form and other information can be found at http://www.tcwf.org/leadership_awards/sabbatical_program_overview.htm

The Biomimicry Institute Launches Certificate Program
November 19, 2007
The Biomimicry Institute in cooperation with The Biomimicry Guild has opened applications for the new Certificate in Biomimicry, a two-year, non-residential program that will begin May 2008. The program is designed to give attendees the skills necessary to become practicing biomimics. The course will be taught by a suite of experts, led by Dr. Dayna Baumeister, co- founder of the Biomimicry Guild, in the fields of biomimicry and sustainability with several guest lectures by prominent, world- renowned visionaries in the fields of sustainability, green business, green chemistry, ecological design,and more. Applications are due December 21, 2007. We invite you to learn more and download applications at http://biomimicryinstitute.org/education/certificate/ Contact: Denise DeLuca, Outreach Director, The Biomimicry Institute Tel: (406) 585-9806 Email: denise@biomimicryinstitute.org Website: www.BiomimicryInstitute.org  Go >

Richard Mott Joins the Wallace Global Fund
November 2, 2007
Melissa Dann from the Wallace Global Fund is pleased to announce that the Wallace Global Fund has hired Richard Mott as its Senior Program Officer on Biodiversity. Many of you might know Richard from his long career at World Wildlife Fund-US. He has been with WWF for nearly 20 years and has served in a number of senior roles during his career there. Most recently, Richard was the vice-president for international policy in which he helped shape WWF's engagement in a number of key arenas, from climate to trade to biodiversity. He was the lead delegate for WWF-US during the Kyoto negotiations and for other critical meetings of CITES, the International Whaling Commission, etc. Richard holds a BS from Tulane university and received his JD from the University of Oregon. Richard joins our staff this coming Monday, November 5th. He can be reached at rmott@wgf.org.

Alliance magazine Climate Change edition
October 26, 2007 - Alliance Magazine
Alliance provides news and analysis of what’s happening in the philanthropy and social investment sectors across the world, and a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners. The September issue featured climate change issues which maybe of interest to members. Please click on the link for this issue  Go >

Samuel Myers Joins Worldwatch Institute Board of Directors
October 24, 2007 - The Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute announced today that Samuel S. Myers, an accomplished physician and public health advocate, has been elected to its Board of Directors. Dr. Myers resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is an Instructor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. A practicing physician and researcher, Dr. Myers has extensive experience connecting the dots between environmental change and human health in both industrialized and developing countries.  Go >

Amy Salzman Has Resigned from the Wallace Global Fund.
October 1, 2007
During the past 5 years that Amy has overseen the Fund’s climate and energy work, she has created a grants portfolio that reflects her special combination of razor-sharp intelligence, strategic and creative thinking and balanced perspective. Amy came to the foundation with solid experience in both the NGO community and as an attorney with the US Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources division.Amy will convey her new coordinates in the near future.

www.WiserEarth.org: Profile Your Organization and Connect with Others
August 24, 2007
WiserEarth (www.wiserearth.org) seeks to create an information commons and a networking platform to serve the hundreds of thousands of organizations and individuals working on social justice, environmental restoration, and indigenous issues. It is a searchable library of resources, jobs, events, discussions, people, and over 106,000 organizations - growing larger every day. The "backbone" of WiserEarth is its 416 areas of focus, a detailed taxonomy of the many areas in which organizations in the social justice and environmental field concentrate their efforts.  Go >

Community-Based Research Funders Form Interest Group and Invite Their Peers to Join
August 21, 2007
Representatives of 21 funders in the US and Canada that support community-based research/community-based participatory research have formed the CBR/CBPR Funders Interest Group (FIG) to strengthen the role of funders in building CBR/CBPR capacity. Meeting for the first time in April 2007 at Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 10th anniversary conference and subsequently by conference call on a quarterly basis, the group invites any funders who are interested in CBR/CBPR to become involved. The group defines "funder" broadly to include any organization that awards grants. The first quarterly call, held in August 2007, focused on criteria for assessing CBR/CBPR proposals and mechanisms for peer review. The next call (date to be announced) will focus on strategies for evaluating CBR/CBPR funding initiatives and lessons learned from these evaluations.  Go >

Climate Change and Emissions Trading: What Every Business Needs to Know
August 13, 2007
This meticulously researched book has been written by practitioners in the field Liz Bossley, CEO of CEAG and director of the London Climate Change Services trade association, and Dr Andrew Kerr, environmental scientist and Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University. The book gives a detailed summary of the legislation and the carbon price formation process, but also explores some of the other issues raised by this new industry, such as the nature of the different asset classes of allowances- AAUs, EUAs, CERs, ERUs and RMUs and the independent calculation and verification of business emissions. The book is practical not polemic and is an invaluable aid for briefing colleagues and clients about the facts underlying this highly controversial industry. For further details we invite you to visit our website at http://www.ceag.org/whatsnew.html . This will allow you to download a table of contents for the book and the Introduction to it. If you or your colleagues would like to order a copy please contact Sarena Steeds at +44 (0) 207 928 1222 or sarenasteeds@ceag.org or complete and return to us the order form which you will find at http://www.ceag.org/articles/Emissions_Book_2.pdf . They would be happy to provide a discount for multiple orders.

11th Hour Action
August 10, 2007
The 11th Hour explores how we have impacted the earth’s ecosystems and what we can do to change our course. It was created to ignite massive change, to bring awareness, and to inspire action. Leonardo DiCaprio, together with the more than 50 well-known experts, have come together to reveal this unique moment and its demand to shift culture. If we are going to survive, we have to change. This films starts to show us how. The film’s action campaign is called 11th Hour Action. www.11thhouraction.com  Go >

What's the Carbon Footprint of a Banner Ad?
July 23, 2007 - David Needle, http://www.internetnews.com/
An interview with Don Carli, Senior Research Fellow at the non-profit Institute for Sustainable Communication (ISC)about calcuating and offsetting the carbon footprint of advertising.  Go >

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