Wednesday, February 09, 2005

::: ENN Daily Newsletter - Monday, February 7, 2005 :::

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New Online Media Service Offers Non-Profits An Opportunity To Reach Global Audiences

With limited budgets, it can be very difficult for non-profit groups supporting important social and environmental causes to get their message out “beyond the choir.” ENN Media, an online publisher of environmental news and information (www.enn.com) mission is to give non-profit organizations a voice through the new ENN Affiliate Program. The ENN Affiliate Program enables the non-profit community to distribute their message to a global network of 8500 environmental media outlets and through select websites with a combined 2.5 million viewers.

Week In Review: January 31st - February 4th

Global warming grabbed headlines this week with news from Exeter, England, site of a major climate conference called "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change."

Researchers Probe Antarctica's Shifting Ice, 'Not Sure What's Going On'

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — Scientists looking southward from the tip of South America, over steel-gray waters toward icy Antarctica, see only questions on the horizon about the fate of the planet.

Bush Seeks $867 Million Budget for Forest Thinning

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase funding to $867 million in fiscal year 2006 for a plan to help reduce the risk of wildfires in federal forests, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Guards, Governments Seek to Save African Forests

DJEMBE, Cameroon — Patrolling in a wooden boat between the thickly forested banks of the broad Sangha river, the four "eco-guards" have something to show for their efforts to tackle poaching in this swathe of central Africa.

EPA Overlooked Health Impact...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration overlooked health effects and sided with the electric industry in developing rules for cutting toxic mercury pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general said Thursday.

Experts See Increasing Energy from Sugar

GUATEMALA CITY — Sweets and soda pop are far from the only ways to get an energy jolt out of sugar.

Food Scarcity Predicted with Rising Temperatures, Falling Water Tables

WASHINGTON — A global warming trend will reduce farm yields and make food supplies scarcer over the next century, an environmental group said Thursday, citing data from the United Nations and the National Academy of Sciences and trends in the world rice market.

READ ALL NON PROFIT NEWS

NAHB Affirms Commitment to Green Homes
— By Sustainable Buildings Industry Council

Hawken Challenges Soundness of New Sustainability Ranking
— By Natural Capital Institute

UM Rosenstiel School Opens New Lab on Highborne Cay, Bahamas
— By University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

New Commitments and Bold Measures Needed to Save the Congo Basin's Forests
— By World Wildlife Fund



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