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Great way to start celebrating our 1 year anniversary with this new short film from Greenpeace!

For a list of full credits, visit the website of the Writer / Director, Daniel Bird.

Give earth a hand!

http://www.greenpeace.org/me2

Asheville will join the Twestival Global effort this March 25, partnering with hundreds of cities around the globe to raise money and awareness for Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to spreading education and ending extreme poverty.

This event will be held at Club 828, will kick off with family-friendly fun from 5PM-7PM, including free food, non-alcoholic beverages and surprise guests. As the sun goes down, local bands Taylor Martin’s Engine, The Screaming Js, and The Enemy Lovers will tune up and get down for the adult portion of the evening. In true Asheville style, the party will feature a selection of local craft brews, food and much more.

Twestival Global Asheville will be live streaming, so Twestival supporters can connect with their global contemporaries in real time.

Admission is a $15 donation
Tickets may be purchased at http://www.amiando.com/Twestival2010_Asheville

All proceeds go to Concern Worldwide

February 2009′s global event raised more than four times the global city average for charity:water. In September 2009′s Twestival Local event, Asheville raised funds and promoted awareness for local agriculture & farmers and connected more people with locally grown food through the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project.

For more information, visit http://www.asheville.twestival.com

kaufDA, a young team based in Germany is working for an initiative called “Make it green!” with a goal to take part in reducing the carbon footprint by raising awareness of the severe environmental damage caused by carbon emissions.

They have decided to take an interesting approach to raising awareness of carbon emissions resulting from the use of the internet – specifically of blogs, creating “My blog is carbon neutral” buttons, so bloggers can demonstrate they care about the environment and the carbon footprint of having a blog.

How do they neutralize your blog’s carbon footprint?

By planting trees in cooperation with the Arbor Day Foundation in Plumas National Forest in Northern California for our project to neutralize the carbon footprint of blogs.

“Thousands of wildfires have burned in many national forests over the past ten years and 88.000 acres of Plumas’ were destroyed by two fires in 2007. For replanting this area we need help from bloggers all over the world! For every participating blog, we plant a tree. One blog – one tree.” -Christin Gericke, Make it green! Team

How much carbon dioxide does your blog create?

According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average website causes about 0.02g (0,0008oz.) of carbon dioxide for each visit. Assuming an average blog gets 15,000 visits a month, it has yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 3,6kg (8lb.). This can mainly be tracked back to the immense energy usage from (mainframe) computers, servers, and their cooling systems.

kaufDA provides advertising brochures of local stores online to help consumers search for specific products and find good deals in their neighborhood. This reduces the amount of brochures printed and so the project helps the environment by reducing unnecessary paper in mailboxes. An American on average receives 41 pounds of junk mail per year. This has the same carbon footprint as burning six gallons of gasoline.

For more details and to find out how you can participate, visit http://www.kaufda.de/umwelt/co2-neutral/my-blog-is-carbon-neutral/

Visit the Nolan’s farm Laurel Valley Creamery online http://su.pr/1iSL3S and follow the farm on twitter @lvcreamery.

If you’d like to see this amazing short film turned into a full length documentary you can help out by clicking here. The great group at Milk Products Media have about 2 months left to raise $28,000 to turn From Grass to Cheese into a feature!  Media and films like these help build support for family run farms which we desperately need more of.  So, be sure to share this video with all your friends and family and use your dollars in the best possible way at grocery stores and buy local family owned & operated!

From Grass to Cheese is a feature documentary that chronicles the ups and downs of a family-run dairy farm in Ohio during it’s first year of cheese production. From Grass to Cheese will tell the story of Nick and Celeste Nolan, their five children, and what it’s like to start up a family farm in the age of industrial agriculture.

www.TerraPlana.com
www.DominicWilcox.com

http://h2oildoc.com

Animated sequences by La Moustache for the feature documentary H2oil h2oildoc.com

via Drawn!

More Info
http://www.carolinamountain.org

Deforestation

Overexploitation

Global Warming

Pollution

A 30-Minute Documentary from the makers of King Corn about The Ecological Consequences of Industrial Agriculture.

http://www.bigriverfilm.com

A short video edit from our visit at the Carolina Raptor Center a while back.  We would like to give special thanks to Nicki Dardinger and Dr. Dave Scott, DVM for their time and giving us such a great tour.  It was very educational and interesting to see the different personalities these birds convey.

About Carolina Raptor Center

Carolina Raptor Center is dedicated to environmental stewardship and the conservation of birds of prey, through education, research, and the rehabilitation of injured and orphan raptors.  With your support, you can help other orphaned raptors be released into the wild, Click Here to make a donation.

For more info on Carolina Raptor Center, visit www.carolinaraptorcenter.org

~ And stay tuned for part 2 of this post from Kiesha Jean!