Happy Earth Day this weekend! No longer a hippie holiday in this eco-conscious era of climate change, you can celebrate Earth Day by converting your workspace to greener resources, cleaning up your community parks and rivers or carpooling to enjoy nature in a National Park, Forest or Wildlife Refuge.
Zoos: Don't feed the animals! National Wildlife Refuges: Begging for hand outs…
PEER has released a fiscal analysis showing that acre-for-acre, national wildlife refuges receive 17 cents for every dollar spent for support of national parks, and national forests see 37 cents for every park buck.
If our national parks could be analogized to the middle class, our national forests are living on food stamps and our refuges have been reduced to dumpster diving. Do a charitable deed and visit your nearest National Wildlife Refuge--there is at least one within an hour's drive of every major U.S. city.
"The National Parks:" an American documentary starring YOU!
Spring cleaning? Don't toss that dusty VHS filmed on the first family vacation to Yellowstone—it could be your 30 second claim to fame.
In the fall of 2009 PBS will air a major documentary film series, "The National Parks," and producers Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan are asking for your help.
Their film series will tell the very powerful, human story of how the parks came into being and what they have meant to Americans for more than a hundred years. They would like to collect home movies of visits to National Parks by families and individuals to help them tell this story and possibly use in the film.
Home movies should be from the 1920-80s with footage of families and tourists in the parks. If yours is used in "The National Parks", you will receive a free DVD of the series.
Send a labeled VHS or DVD copy (material won't be returned) by August 1, 2007 to:
Anne Harrington. WETA. 2775 S. Quincy Street. Arlington, VA 22206. eod@weta.com.
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Did you Step It Up last weekend? How will you be celebrating Earth Day this Sunday (and every day)? Share your stories on our blog. For those looking for new tips or events, check out EPA's Earth Day website.
Campaign Spotlight: Orphaned Park Wilderness
The National Park Service administers more wilderness, 44 million acres of magnificent wild land, than any other federal land-managing agency. NPS has failed to take steps necessary to protect its wilderness legacy. Help us persuade policymakers that wilderness values still matter. Tell the Secretary of the Interior to protect park wilderness today!
Sincerely,
Jeff Ruch
Executive Director
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