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Comment by Christopher Stewart on February 15, 2009 at 6:57pm

If you're into social media, you might want to check out what Brian Campbell is up to these days :

http://thesocialmediasource.com/social-media-mania/prepare

Best wishes,
Chris

Comment by Jeanette McDermott on January 22, 2009 at 10:23pm

Great post, NaTasha. You've given me some new sites to research, and I'm always up for that so I can learn who's taking what eco action where.

Comment by NaTasha Shastan Bertrand on January 18, 2009 at 2:39am

Hi everyone, have you heard of this:

The Prince's Rainforests Project Award.
Set up in October 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales, The Prince’s Rainforests Project recognises the global role played by the forests in both promoting and mitigating climate change, and the acute pressure put on the rainforests by the worldwide rises in commodity prices and soaring global demand for beef, soya and palm oil. There is a growing awareness of the need to urgently protect the world’s rainforests, their people, and their resources. It is into this space that HRH The Prince of Wales has stepped with The Prince’s Rainforests Project. "The task is to review, develop and propose practical mechanisms that acknowledge the true value of the eco-system services provided by the world’s remaining rainforests. These solutions need to provide credible incentives to host nations, and to local communities, and must out-compete the drivers of rainforest destruction.” – HRH The Prince of Wales

The Sony World Photography Awards, in keeping with its central theme on "Focus Earth" are delighted to launch the "PRP Award" in conjunction with The Prince’s Rainforests Project and Sony.

These awards are part of Sony’s wide reaching eco activities programme.

Best to all,
NSB

Comment by Jeanette McDermott on January 16, 2009 at 6:35am

Here's what the social medial landscape looks like when seen as an infographic. It's pretty interesting to see it this way.

Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)

1. Blogger (222 million)
2. Facebook (200 million)
3. MySpace (126 million)
4. Wordpress (114 million)
5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
7. Flickr (64 million)
8. hi5 (58 million)
9. Orkut (46 million)
10. Six Apart (46 million)
11. Baidu Space (40 million)
12. Friendster (31 million)
13. 56.com (29 million)
14. Webs.com (24 million)
15. Bebo (24 million)
16. Scribd (23 million)
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
18. Tagged (22 million)
19. imeem (22 million)
20. Netlog (21 million)

Comment by Lucy Greer Burton on October 26, 2008 at 6:53am

Hello Rebecca and Friends:
It is nice to meet each of you and hear of your work. It can be lonely as a visionary when those around you are not tuned in to the issues of life on planet earth at the grand or mini scale. So it is heartening that Jeanette has gotten us together. She is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing and so are you. I am a gardener and community educator mostly on the ground in location, right now in San Antonio. I gardened first in Washington State, and then in Oregon. Now have learned the cycles and seasons in San Antonio, very different. Thanks and talk to you more soon. We are producing a DVD of our class, The Gardener's Edge in Living Democracy. It is about concrete gardening methods, water conservation, and personal reflection on our role as Earth stewards. My most treasured dream is that we can reorganize our cities and towns into walkable communities. I think it would help us have real community again, if by walking mostly, we pass our neighbors each day and say hello. Zooming by in the car keeps us distanced in many ways. Still we can sure get around to more people that way, if when we arrive we truly connect. May all beings, human and other than human, be blessed.

Comment by Jeanette McDermott on October 25, 2008 at 7:38am

These badges would be really cool on your personal profile page. They help identify the causes you are part of and give others more opportunity to chat with you about them. So by all means, feel free to design your personal page however you want to, including your logos, petition drive hyperlinks, click here to save the forest buttons, anything you've got that will help us help you save the natural treasures of your bioregion. If we know the need, as a network of Earth healers we can help.

Comment by Ilyes on October 24, 2008 at 10:21pm

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Comment by Jeanette McDermott on October 21, 2008 at 11:57am

If you have photos, please upload them so we can experience what goes on there in Brazil.

Comment by Jeanette McDermott on October 21, 2008 at 6:14am

Is there a website we can visit to learn more? Or can you give us more information? What attitudes were changed? And how did the people work together to change the attitudes? I am always interested in learning how people in communities work together to bring about change. And I would like to know more about the work you talk about here. I googled Villa Lage but nothing came up other than real estate announcements.