Letter About Palin Goes Viral Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400 This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook. Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400 Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools. Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.
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Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama. Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . . Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley. Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . . James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility? James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
Art for the Animals - USA donor scheme; channels funds from gifts to wildlife wildlife organizations.
Bagheera Endangered Species - An educational web site about animals vanishing from the Earth.
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Biological Diversity - Special issue of Our Planet magazine, focussing on biodiversity.
Conservation and Consumption - Explores the tension between our conservation and consumption of natural resources.
Meta Description: [ Articles at Suite101 relating to Conservation and Consumption explores the tension between our conservation and consumption of natural resources. Particular focus will be given to finding a balance, assessing environmental/human impact, and re-examining our habits as consumers. ]
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund - An initiative for key investments in biodiversity conservation, based on the common vision that economic prosperity and conservation are linked.
EarthPulse - An initiative launched by the National Geographic Society to raise awareness about pressing global conservation issues.
Meta Description: [ National Geographic's home for conservation: explore rain forests, barrier reefs and more. ]
Ecology Communications - A source of global environmental issues, scientific research project coverage, gardening tips for backyard ecologists, coverage of current topics.
Meta Description: [ ECI's mission is based on personal empowerment and enlightenment, where people can gain a greater understanding of the vital things in their lives. It's all about ecology and how all things are interconnected... for all viewers and users worldwide... students, teachers, children, adults, and the... ]
Endangered Earth - A web site which promotes the plight of endangered animals around the world.
Meta Description: [ Endangered Earth provides news and information about Earth's Endangered Animals and Endangered Species. ]
Endangered Species - Endangered species, factors helping and hindering their survival.
Meta Description: [ How to set up a butterfly garden friendly to endangered butterflies. ]
Endangered Species 2000 - Educating about the importance of preserving endangered species of the next millennium
Meta Description: [ ES2000 - Endangered Species of the Next Millennium is a project that aims to reveal the cruel fact that the Human Species is the ultimate cause of disappearing species on Earth. Our web site illustrates WHAT Endangered Species means, WHY the Endangered Species list gets longer each year and HOW... ]
Endangered Species Resource Center - A great place for student and teacher alike to find information on endangered species anywhere in the world.
Meta Description: [ We provide all the best endangered species information, endangered species books, and everything else regarding rare and endangered species, conservation efforts, and endangered species organizations dedicated to saving and preserving the world's most endangered wildlife and plantlife. ]
Fiona's Animal Page - Photos and information on endangered species and already extinct animals.
Global Issues - Biodiversity - An overview of environmental issues threatening biodiversity, focussing on political causes and climate change.
Meta Description: [ This part of the globalissues.org web site tries to show why biodiversity is important -- more than just the 'I want my children to enjoy it' reason, but real issues surrounding the richess of diversity allowing medicines and foods to be naturally available, the natural disaster prevention mechan... ]
Investing In Nature - Conservation projects, funded by a financial services business, working with Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Earthwatch and WWF.
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Keep The Wild Alive - Supports endangered species protection through education, creating public awareness, implementing and encouraging innovative conservation efforts to save species and habitats.
Meta Description: [ Wildlife of America, NWF is protecting wildlife, educating people about global warming and wildlife conservation and inspiring others to care for and protect animals and nature ]
500Preserving Our Vanishing Wildlife - A feature on wildlife conservation, including threatened endangered plants and animals and the impact of conservation.
The Arkgallery - Amateur photographs taken at Jersey Zoo headquarters of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
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Wildlife Gifts and Preservation - Ring of sites promoting Gifts, information, education, safety or preservation of wildlife and endangered species and conservation of their habitat.
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WWF | Species Programme - Conservation project news, factsheets and status reports of threatened species such as great apes, rhinos, whales and tigers.
