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With increasing public concern and awareness about climate change, food safety, health, immigration, and even swine flu, industrial agriculture’s grip on the American food and agriculture system is starting to loosen. Nowhere was this more evident than at the St.

(Editor note: Liza (Guerra) O'Reilly is attending the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of IATP's Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy.

(Editor note: Liza (Guerra) O'Reilly is attending the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of IATP's Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy.

Dovetail Partners, a Minneapolis-based environmental organization, has released a map and directory of forestry education sites. The information is available at the Dovetail website. The map includes forestry education sites located across the U.S. that provide the public with access to forestry information. The map includes demonstration sites, research forests and forest history centers.

The FSC Family Forests Alliance, a national partnership of individuals and organizations committed to promoting responsible forest stewardship, recently participated in the field testing of revisions to group certification and family forest standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Baffin Island is covered with an austere, Arctic tundra now, but some time later this century it will be capable of sprouting something unusual: a verdant coniferous forest.

The strip of desert between the Andean mountains and the Pacific Ocean has an annual average rainfall as low as 1.5mm. By way of comparison, London enjoys around 650mm a year.

(Editor note: Liza (Guerra) O'Reilly is attending the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of IATP's Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy.