In an effort to help improve our planet through education, we have set aside this area of our website to post articles on our planet. We hope that you find these posting informative. Please stop back often as we will update this area as we come across new information.


The New York Times
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Trucks, Trains and Trees
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 11, 2009
Without a new system for economic development in the timber-rich tropics, the only Amazon your grandchildren will ever know ends in dot-com and sells books. To read further click here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/opinion/11friedman.html

The New York Times
BY DEGREES
In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: August 22, 2009
In an effort to prevent farmers from cutting down rain forest, environmental groups are offering money. To read further click here > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/science/earth/22degrees.html

Time.com
Are the Earth's Oceans Hitting Their Carbon Cap?
By BRYAN WALSH
Published: Thursday November 19, 2009
Like the vast forests of the world, which continually suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen, the planet's oceans serve.... To read further click here > http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1940391,00.html


This post isn't new information, but it takes us back to the childhood story that first sparked many of our generations environmentalist passions.

THE LORAX by Dr. Suess
At the far end of town
where the Grickle-grass grows
and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows
and no birds ever sing excepting old crows...
is the Street of the Lifted Lorax....To read it all click here > http://csc.gallaudet.edu/soarhigh/lorax.htm