New Forest Earth

09/14/2015

Basic income week is here! What can you do to help create a safety net for life in the form of for all? http://t.co/FTj3AyOBPy

The date for the 8th international Basic Income Week will be 14-21 september 2015 The motto wil be: “UBI: A safety net for life” Activities during the “international basic income week” are organized by collectives or individuals in different countries all over the world.   Send in your activities fo…

08/24/2015

"Tropical forests face a lot of threats, particularly from the logging and agriculture industries. Their continued disappearance from the face of the Earth is therefore no great news — but new research suggests that they may be disappearing even faster than we thought. And that could have big implications for the global effort against climate change."

- Prabesh

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/08/24/earth-is-on-track-to-lose-an-india-sized-chunk-of-its-tropical-forests-by-mid-century/

New research suggests that tropical forests may be disappearing even faster than we thought.

08/22/2015

My fellow vendor Pema Sherpa gave me some Nepali paper products to try out. When I looked them up, I realized why: these are exactly the kind of thing i look for and have been a sustainable industry for thousands of years!

Nepalese handmade lokta paper is made from the fibrous inner bark of high elevation evergreen shrubs primarily from two species of Daphne (plant) (Greek: meaning "Laurel"): Daphne bholua and Daphne papyracea, known collectively and vernacularly as lokta bushes.[1]

08/15/2015

For once trump, you may be partially right!
http://t.co/3pP3Dztl2D

07/25/2015

If I said "save the rainforest" would you immediately say "save all the forests?"

“ doesn't mean other lives don't. Like people who say "Save The Rainforests" aren't saying "F**k All Other Types of Forests"”

07/21/2015

Depending on the market, Ginseng can be literally be worth more than its weight in gold... but in order to fetch those prices, you have to grow it as close to wild as possible, making it the perfect forest product for Appalachia.

The cultivation of ginseng, a medicinal plant native to Appalachia, could provide a boost for local economies.

06/27/2015

Here's a concrete thing we can do to try and get the Washington Redsk*ns to change their name: Boycott FedEx! They are the major sponsor for the team and lots of Native American tribes are boycotting them.

“The marketing partnership between FedEx and the NFL team continues to promote an offensive term used during a deplorable and inhumane period in our history suffered by the ancestors of our American Indian brothers and sisters,” said President Richard Peterson. “FedEx’s continued support of this team is disheartening and we encourage other tribes to rise up in solidarity to support this movement.”

06/22/2015

This clip describes pipelines and oil spills as an "optional problem" which is a genius phrase: http://t.co/KXBlXBkDz0 via

06/18/2015

Reading the and it seems the Pope really gets the problems of the Amazon:

38. Let us mention, for example, those richly biodiverse lungs of our planet which are the Amazon and the Congo basins, or the great aquifers and glaciers. We know how important these are for the entire earth and for the future of humanity. The ecosystems of tropical forests possess an enormously complex biodiversity which is almost impossible to appreciate fully, yet when these forests are burned down or levelled for purposes of cultivation, within the space of a few years countless species are lost and the areas frequently become arid wastelands. A delicate balance has to be maintained when speaking about these places, for we cannot overlook the huge global economic interests which, under the guise of protecting them, can undermine the sovereignty of individual nations.

06/13/2015

This is a great collection targeted at the Weather Channel's older, more conservative audience.

Hear how a select group of military, business and health leaders are preparing for the effects of climate change now.

06/11/2015

Just updated the online store, so there's lots of new color options on Journals! Get 'em before they're gone!

http://www.newforestearth.org/v0.2/shop/

06/05/2015

I'm at the Green Festival Expo in DC, and my first customer walked up and asked me how my bracelets were "more special" than regular h**p bracelets. I replied that they were made from palm leaves in the Amazon by women who are under threat of oil development and that by selling them, the women earn a living that allows them to stay on their land and block the oil companies.

"That's pretty deep." He replied.

Yeah. Yeah it is.