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Action For Nature’s mission is to encourage young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends. Now in its eighth year, the awards thus far have been bestowed to 90 young people from 13 countries and 24 states in the US.

This will be the last Trust Birth Conference! March 12-14 (with pre-conference sessions on the 10th and 11th) Redondo Beach, CA at the Crown Plaza Resort on the Marina.

MEAC, ACNM, CAM, BRN continuing education units are available. There will be an awards dinner banquet honoring our Keynote speakers Dr. Sarah Buckley, Marilyn Milos of NoCIRC, Wholistic Pediatrician, Dr. Paul Fleiss and others.

The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) has put out  Requests for Proposals, otherwise known as RFP’s.  From coast to coast and around the world, hotel staff are sharpening their pencils and filling out select paperwork from a mountain of NBTA forms with the hope of winning business in 2010.

According to Envirosax, 40 million tons of gift wrap and shopping bags and 38,000 miles of ribbon are tossed during each holiday season. This year you can wrap your gifts in an additional gift  that has reinforced seams, each surprisingly large bag can hold a weight the equivalent of two supermarket plastic bags.

A new online movement, named 'A Journey to Zero', launched last week to facilitate and enable conversations around the path to zero emissions. Centered around the website, leading visionaries in the environmental, architectural, design and art fields are kick-starting the conversation. Each collaboration brings a unique perspective on the journey to zero, making for a diverse way to start the conversation about a cleaner future. 

Couples who are dreaming of a luscious rainforest backdrop for their wedding day, but who don’t want the carbon footprint of flying to the tropics, can now tie the knot in the beautiful surroundings of the Eden Project.