Conservation Deserves More Than 2%* *Conservation only receives 2% of all charitable giving. Most people believe it deserves more. Source: Giving USA.
Clean Water Charlie Said It All If you google, “Rep.Charlie Melancom, tears, BP Oil Crisis,” and view his presentation, it says it all. Other words for the BP Oil Crisis are “I never thought it was possible, too shocking to understand. To kill the water,” Chief Meganack said, “and to kill our native land,” from the song “Exxon-Valdez Disaster,” by Lee Robert. For the latest update on the BP Oil Crisis, go to www.nwf.org.
Earth Friends Conservation Fund, founded in 1994 by Rick Flory, an entrepreneur and conservationist, is a non-profit Foundation that gives broad-based support for conservation causes in the American West. We believe philanthropic investment in conservation has a better return on investment than any other. Earth Friends Conservation Fund desires to influence other foundations and individuals to support conservation and the environment: the primary sustaining resource for the health of people and the planet. Lee and Rick at Honolua Bay, HI
© Mike Snader
Clean Air
PLEASE CONSERVE RESOURCES AND SHARE THIS COPY WITH OTHERS BEFORE RECYCLING.
Senate Holds the Keys The world has recognized for the first time that action cannot be confined to one nation or group of nations, but must be by every nation. “Climate legislation can pass the Senate this year.” To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.edf.org go to bottom of page and click on “news and publications archive,” put “Power to the People, Winter 2010” into search engine. © Lee Robert
P.O. Box 11217 Jackson, WY 83002 www.earthfriends.com
PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
NonProfit Org US Postage Paid Permit No. 1 Phoenix, AZ
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Healthy Landscapes Protect What’s Yours Defenders of Wildlife created and is leading a nationwide coalition of groups in the “Your Lands, Your Wildlife” campaign, which advocates for balanced, science-based reforms to federal land-management policies that will ensure wildlife is protected for future generations. To protect what’s yours, go to www.yourlandsyourwidllife.org.
CONSERVATION’S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
© Karin McQuillan
Conservation’s Community Foundation Photos © Mike Snader
Cover Photo © Karin McQuillan
Earth Friends Conservation Fund The Mission: Currently, the environment gets 2% of philanthropic dollars. Earth Friends Conservation Fund wants to champion a higher level of financial support for conservation in the American West.
© Karin McQuillan
Energy Security Smart Climate Policy $1.7 trillion: the amount of money the United States would save from 2010 to 2030—if Congress enacts comprehensive climate policy that includes a cap on heat-trapping carbon emissions as well as a package of energy and transportation policies. To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.earthfriends.com, and click on the link: Smart Climate Policies. © Lee Robert
The Great Outdoors
Faith Under Fire There’s Still Cause for Hope By Carl Pope The current administration has already reversed many of the antienvironmental regulations and policies enacted under the previous administration – significantly tightening ground-level smog standards, for example. In the push for clean energy, the economic fundamentals keep getting better. For the 1.5 billion people in the world without electricity, solar power is already twice as cheap as the dirty kerosene they now use. Thanks to the $80 billion for clean energy in Obama’s stimulus package, economists predict that bank lending for renewables will bounce back to pre-recession levels this year. Major corporations continue to shift toward sustainability and clean energy. On a recent trip to India, a major industrialist told me that the insistence by Wal-Mart and other major importers (not to mention the European Union) on high environmental standards was transforming Indian business practices. Here are five ideas that can empower you to have hope and to fight like hell for what we believe in: 1) Kick our oil addiction
Power our cars with electricity and our trucks with natural gas, move goods onto railroads, and build neighborhoods where people can walk and bike – all the while tightening limits on oil imports.
2) Plug the Leaks
Kicking oil will help usher in new transportation technologies. But we also need to increase the rate at which we upgrade our homes and offices with 21st-century zero-carbon technologies like high-performance windows, low-temperature geothermal heating, and roof-top wind and solar.
3) Take on Corporate Privilege
No matter what the Supreme Court says, corporations are not people, and they shouldn’t be treated like citizens. The time has come for public financing of political campaigns and for a constitutional amendment to end the legal charade of corporate personhood.
4) Reconnect with Rural America
America is in a Boom Compassion Counts More Than Ever
We elect senators to vote, and ought to demand that they do so. No matter which party controls the Senate next year and into the future, it should be able to govern by majority rule.
To read complete article by Carl Pope, go to www.sierraclub.org, enter “Faith Under Fire, Carl Pope” into search engine.
Efficiency Alone Could Cut U.S. Electricity Use by 30 Percent
America is in the midst of a boom--and one that is benefiting and bonding us all. “During past tough economic times, there was a decrease in volunteering,” says Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service. “But today there’s a ‘compassion boom’ of people helping others.” An exclusive new PARADE poll shows how and why so many Americans are working to improve our communities and the world. “Public service” has become more than a phrase or a school requirement in our country-it’s now a way of life for Americans of all ages. “People who are out of work are volunteering to stay connected to their communities and to hone their job skills,” Corvington explains, “but I think part of what is driving the overall increase is the growing understanding that service is an essential tool to achieve community and national goals.” To read complete article, go to www.earthfriends.com and click on the link, America’s Boom.
Study by Rocky Mountain Institute SNOWMASS, Colo. -- An assessment of the “electric productivity” of the 50 states indicates that shoring up performance gaps through energy efficiency could not only cut consumption by 30 percent, but also eliminate the need for more than 60 percent of coal-fired generation, according to a new study by the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Let’s Move! In an ambitious effort to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity, First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched a comprehensive campaign and aptly named it Let’s Move! Time unplugged and playing outside in nature should be an integral part of the First Lady’s initiative. It works for adults too! Go to www.nwf.org and put in “Lets Move Initiative” into the search engine.
The RMI study, “Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and the U.S. Efficiency Opportunity,” determines the productivity rate of each state by measuring how much gross domestic product is generated for each kilowatt-hour consumed. © Karin McQuillan
Healthy Oceans
“Closing the electric productivity gap through energy efficiency is the largest near-term opportunity to immediately reduce electricity use and greenhouse gases, and move the United States forward as a leader in the new clean energy economy,” Natalie Mims, a consultant on RMI’s Energy and Resources Team, said in a statement. Article continues: www.earthfriends.com, click on “Energy Efficiency” on home page
ACID TEST A beautiful film produced by NRDC was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Go to www.nrdc.org and put “Acid Test The Global Challenge” into the search engine and click on it. © Mike Snader
© Mike Snader
By Michael J. Berland
It’s no accident that the gridlock in the Senate rests on the perceived political gap between country folk and city slickers. We need to do a better job of building alliances.
5) End the Filibuster
www.earthfriends.com
Rick’s Write New Game, New Name Help us celebrate our new name: Earth Friends Conservation Fund. Running a Foundation has been a creative process. We have tried to use the same creativity that we used in business to keep our organization fresh, relevant, and effective. When Earth Friends started out in 1994, we focused our support on projects. Then we broadened our approach in our giving philosophy realizing that we could make more of a difference in helping our partners “grow” their organization. We realized that the greatest opportunity in conservation organizations was that their work was not widely known and they received much less support than they needed and truly deserved. We learned that conservation gets only 2% of philanthropic dollars and it doesn’t take a scientist to understand that 2% is not enough to solve the environmental problems we are facing today. Earth Friends can make the biggest difference by championing a higher level of financial support in the American West: “Conservation Deserves More Than 2%!” Our mission has evolved, and it’s time that our name reflects that. For Earth Friends Conservation Fund it’s a new game, and a new name!
R
SUPPORT OUR CHALLENGE © Mike Snader
Conservation Deserves More Than 2%* *Conservation only receives 2% of all charitable giving. Most people believe it deserves more. Source: Giving USA.
Clean Water Charlie Said It All If you google, “Rep.Charlie Melancom, tears, BP Oil Crisis,” and view his presentation, it says it all. Other words for the BP Oil Crisis are “I never thought it was possible, too shocking to understand. To kill the water,” Chief Meganack said, “and to kill our native land,” from the song “Exxon-Valdez Disaster,” by Lee Robert. For the latest update on the BP Oil Crisis, go to www.nwf.org.
Earth Friends Conservation Fund, founded in 1994 by Rick Flory, an entrepreneur and conservationist, is a non-profit Foundation that gives broad-based support for conservation causes in the American West. We believe philanthropic investment in conservation has a better return on investment than any other. Earth Friends Conservation Fund desires to influence other foundations and individuals to support conservation and the environment: the primary sustaining resource for the health of people and the planet. Lee and Rick at Honolua Bay, HI
© Mike Snader
Clean Air
PLEASE CONSERVE RESOURCES AND SHARE THIS COPY WITH OTHERS BEFORE RECYCLING.
Senate Holds the Keys The world has recognized for the first time that action cannot be confined to one nation or group of nations, but must be by every nation. “Climate legislation can pass the Senate this year.” To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.edf.org go to bottom of page and click on “news and publications archive,” put “Power to the People, Winter 2010” into search engine. © Lee Robert
P.O. Box 11217 Jackson, WY 83002 www.earthfriends.com
PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
NonProfit Org US Postage Paid Permit No. 1 Phoenix, AZ
Spring 2010 Vol. 5 No. 2 www.earthfriends.com �
�
Healthy Landscapes Protect What’s Yours Defenders of Wildlife created and is leading a nationwide coalition of groups in the “Your Lands, Your Wildlife” campaign, which advocates for balanced, science-based reforms to federal land-management policies that will ensure wildlife is protected for future generations. To protect what’s yours, go to www.yourlandsyourwidllife.org.
CONSERVATION’S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
© Karin McQuillan
Conservation’s Community Foundation Photos © Mike Snader
Cover Photo © Karin McQuillan
Earth Friends Conservation Fund The Mission: Currently, the environment gets 2% of philanthropic dollars. Earth Friends Conservation Fund wants to champion a higher level of financial support for conservation in the American West.
© Karin McQuillan
Energy Security Smart Climate Policy $1.7 trillion: the amount of money the United States would save from 2010 to 2030—if Congress enacts comprehensive climate policy that includes a cap on heat-trapping carbon emissions as well as a package of energy and transportation policies. To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.earthfriends.com, and click on the link: Smart Climate Policies. © Lee Robert
The Great Outdoors
Faith Under Fire There’s Still Cause for Hope By Carl Pope The current administration has already reversed many of the antienvironmental regulations and policies enacted under the previous administration – significantly tightening ground-level smog standards, for example. In the push for clean energy, the economic fundamentals keep getting better. For the 1.5 billion people in the world without electricity, solar power is already twice as cheap as the dirty kerosene they now use. Thanks to the $80 billion for clean energy in Obama’s stimulus package, economists predict that bank lending for renewables will bounce back to pre-recession levels this year. Major corporations continue to shift toward sustainability and clean energy. On a recent trip to India, a major industrialist told me that the insistence by Wal-Mart and other major importers (not to mention the European Union) on high environmental standards was transforming Indian business practices. Here are five ideas that can empower you to have hope and to fight like hell for what we believe in: 1) Kick our oil addiction
Power our cars with electricity and our trucks with natural gas, move goods onto railroads, and build neighborhoods where people can walk and bike – all the while tightening limits on oil imports.
2) Plug the Leaks
Kicking oil will help usher in new transportation technologies. But we also need to increase the rate at which we upgrade our homes and offices with 21st-century zero-carbon technologies like high-performance windows, low-temperature geothermal heating, and roof-top wind and solar.
3) Take on Corporate Privilege
No matter what the Supreme Court says, corporations are not people, and they shouldn’t be treated like citizens. The time has come for public financing of political campaigns and for a constitutional amendment to end the legal charade of corporate personhood.
4) Reconnect with Rural America
America is in a Boom Compassion Counts More Than Ever
We elect senators to vote, and ought to demand that they do so. No matter which party controls the Senate next year and into the future, it should be able to govern by majority rule.
To read complete article by Carl Pope, go to www.sierraclub.org, enter “Faith Under Fire, Carl Pope” into search engine.
Efficiency Alone Could Cut U.S. Electricity Use by 30 Percent
America is in the midst of a boom--and one that is benefiting and bonding us all. “During past tough economic times, there was a decrease in volunteering,” says Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service. “But today there’s a ‘compassion boom’ of people helping others.” An exclusive new PARADE poll shows how and why so many Americans are working to improve our communities and the world. “Public service” has become more than a phrase or a school requirement in our country-it’s now a way of life for Americans of all ages. “People who are out of work are volunteering to stay connected to their communities and to hone their job skills,” Corvington explains, “but I think part of what is driving the overall increase is the growing understanding that service is an essential tool to achieve community and national goals.” To read complete article, go to www.earthfriends.com and click on the link, America’s Boom.
Study by Rocky Mountain Institute SNOWMASS, Colo. -- An assessment of the “electric productivity” of the 50 states indicates that shoring up performance gaps through energy efficiency could not only cut consumption by 30 percent, but also eliminate the need for more than 60 percent of coal-fired generation, according to a new study by the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Let’s Move! In an ambitious effort to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity, First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched a comprehensive campaign and aptly named it Let’s Move! Time unplugged and playing outside in nature should be an integral part of the First Lady’s initiative. It works for adults too! Go to www.nwf.org and put in “Lets Move Initiative” into the search engine.
The RMI study, “Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and the U.S. Efficiency Opportunity,” determines the productivity rate of each state by measuring how much gross domestic product is generated for each kilowatt-hour consumed. © Karin McQuillan
Healthy Oceans
“Closing the electric productivity gap through energy efficiency is the largest near-term opportunity to immediately reduce electricity use and greenhouse gases, and move the United States forward as a leader in the new clean energy economy,” Natalie Mims, a consultant on RMI’s Energy and Resources Team, said in a statement. Article continues: www.earthfriends.com, click on “Energy Efficiency” on home page
ACID TEST A beautiful film produced by NRDC was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Go to www.nrdc.org and put “Acid Test The Global Challenge” into the search engine and click on it. © Mike Snader
© Mike Snader
By Michael J. Berland
It’s no accident that the gridlock in the Senate rests on the perceived political gap between country folk and city slickers. We need to do a better job of building alliances.
5) End the Filibuster
www.earthfriends.com
Rick’s Write New Game, New Name Help us celebrate our new name: Earth Friends Conservation Fund. Running a Foundation has been a creative process. We have tried to use the same creativity that we used in business to keep our organization fresh, relevant, and effective. When Earth Friends started out in 1994, we focused our support on projects. Then we broadened our approach in our giving philosophy realizing that we could make more of a difference in helping our partners “grow” their organization. We realized that the greatest opportunity in conservation organizations was that their work was not widely known and they received much less support than they needed and truly deserved. We learned that conservation gets only 2% of philanthropic dollars and it doesn’t take a scientist to understand that 2% is not enough to solve the environmental problems we are facing today. Earth Friends can make the biggest difference by championing a higher level of financial support in the American West: “Conservation Deserves More Than 2%!” Our mission has evolved, and it’s time that our name reflects that. For Earth Friends Conservation Fund it’s a new game, and a new name!
R
SUPPORT OUR CHALLENGE © Mike Snader
Earth Friends Conservation Fund The Mission: Currently, the environment gets 2% of philanthropic dollars. Earth Friends Conservation Fund wants to champion a higher level of financial support for conservation in the American West.
© Karin McQuillan
Energy Security Smart Climate Policy $1.7 trillion: the amount of money the United States would save from 2010 to 2030—if Congress enacts comprehensive climate policy that includes a cap on heat-trapping carbon emissions as well as a package of energy and transportation policies. To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.earthfriends.com, and click on the link: Smart Climate Policies. © Lee Robert
The Great Outdoors
Faith Under Fire There’s Still Cause for Hope By Carl Pope The current administration has already reversed many of the antienvironmental regulations and policies enacted under the previous administration – significantly tightening ground-level smog standards, for example. In the push for clean energy, the economic fundamentals keep getting better. For the 1.5 billion people in the world without electricity, solar power is already twice as cheap as the dirty kerosene they now use. Thanks to the $80 billion for clean energy in Obama’s stimulus package, economists predict that bank lending for renewables will bounce back to pre-recession levels this year. Major corporations continue to shift toward sustainability and clean energy. On a recent trip to India, a major industrialist told me that the insistence by Wal-Mart and other major importers (not to mention the European Union) on high environmental standards was transforming Indian business practices. Here are five ideas that can empower you to have hope and to fight like hell for what we believe in: 1) Kick our oil addiction
Power our cars with electricity and our trucks with natural gas, move goods onto railroads, and build neighborhoods where people can walk and bike – all the while tightening limits on oil imports.
2) Plug the Leaks
Kicking oil will help usher in new transportation technologies. But we also need to increase the rate at which we upgrade our homes and offices with 21st-century zero-carbon technologies like high-performance windows, low-temperature geothermal heating, and roof-top wind and solar.
3) Take on Corporate Privilege
No matter what the Supreme Court says, corporations are not people, and they shouldn’t be treated like citizens. The time has come for public financing of political campaigns and for a constitutional amendment to end the legal charade of corporate personhood.
4) Reconnect with Rural America
America is in a Boom Compassion Counts More Than Ever
We elect senators to vote, and ought to demand that they do so. No matter which party controls the Senate next year and into the future, it should be able to govern by majority rule.
To read complete article by Carl Pope, go to www.sierraclub.org, enter “Faith Under Fire, Carl Pope” into search engine.
Efficiency Alone Could Cut U.S. Electricity Use by 30 Percent
America is in the midst of a boom--and one that is benefiting and bonding us all. “During past tough economic times, there was a decrease in volunteering,” says Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Federal Corporation for National and Community Service. “But today there’s a ‘compassion boom’ of people helping others.” An exclusive new PARADE poll shows how and why so many Americans are working to improve our communities and the world. “Public service” has become more than a phrase or a school requirement in our country-it’s now a way of life for Americans of all ages. “People who are out of work are volunteering to stay connected to their communities and to hone their job skills,” Corvington explains, “but I think part of what is driving the overall increase is the growing understanding that service is an essential tool to achieve community and national goals.” To read complete article, go to www.earthfriends.com and click on the link, America’s Boom.
Study by Rocky Mountain Institute SNOWMASS, Colo. -- An assessment of the “electric productivity” of the 50 states indicates that shoring up performance gaps through energy efficiency could not only cut consumption by 30 percent, but also eliminate the need for more than 60 percent of coal-fired generation, according to a new study by the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Let’s Move! In an ambitious effort to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity, First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched a comprehensive campaign and aptly named it Let’s Move! Time unplugged and playing outside in nature should be an integral part of the First Lady’s initiative. It works for adults too! Go to www.nwf.org and put in “Lets Move Initiative” into the search engine.
The RMI study, “Assessing the Electric Productivity Gap and the U.S. Efficiency Opportunity,” determines the productivity rate of each state by measuring how much gross domestic product is generated for each kilowatt-hour consumed. © Karin McQuillan
Healthy Oceans
“Closing the electric productivity gap through energy efficiency is the largest near-term opportunity to immediately reduce electricity use and greenhouse gases, and move the United States forward as a leader in the new clean energy economy,” Natalie Mims, a consultant on RMI’s Energy and Resources Team, said in a statement. Article continues: www.earthfriends.com, click on “Energy Efficiency” on home page
ACID TEST A beautiful film produced by NRDC was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Go to www.nrdc.org and put “Acid Test The Global Challenge” into the search engine and click on it. © Mike Snader
© Mike Snader
By Michael J. Berland
It’s no accident that the gridlock in the Senate rests on the perceived political gap between country folk and city slickers. We need to do a better job of building alliances.
5) End the Filibuster
www.earthfriends.com
Rick’s Write New Game, New Name Help us celebrate our new name: Earth Friends Conservation Fund. Running a Foundation has been a creative process. We have tried to use the same creativity that we used in business to keep our organization fresh, relevant, and effective. When Earth Friends started out in 1994, we focused our support on projects. Then we broadened our approach in our giving philosophy realizing that we could make more of a difference in helping our partners “grow” their organization. We realized that the greatest opportunity in conservation organizations was that their work was not widely known and they received much less support than they needed and truly deserved. We learned that conservation gets only 2% of philanthropic dollars and it doesn’t take a scientist to understand that 2% is not enough to solve the environmental problems we are facing today. Earth Friends can make the biggest difference by championing a higher level of financial support in the American West: “Conservation Deserves More Than 2%!” Our mission has evolved, and it’s time that our name reflects that. For Earth Friends Conservation Fund it’s a new game, and a new name!
R
SUPPORT OUR CHALLENGE © Mike Snader
Conservation Deserves More Than 2%* *Conservation only receives 2% of all charitable giving. Most people believe it deserves more. Source: Giving USA.
Clean Water Charlie Said It All If you google, “Rep.Charlie Melancom, tears, BP Oil Crisis,” and view his presentation, it says it all. Other words for the BP Oil Crisis are “I never thought it was possible, too shocking to understand. To kill the water,” Chief Meganack said, “and to kill our native land,” from the song “Exxon-Valdez Disaster,” by Lee Robert. For the latest update on the BP Oil Crisis, go to www.nwf.org.
Earth Friends Conservation Fund, founded in 1994 by Rick Flory, an entrepreneur and conservationist, is a non-profit Foundation that gives broad-based support for conservation causes in the American West. We believe philanthropic investment in conservation has a better return on investment than any other. Earth Friends Conservation Fund desires to influence other foundations and individuals to support conservation and the environment: the primary sustaining resource for the health of people and the planet. Lee and Rick at Honolua Bay, HI
© Mike Snader
Clean Air
PLEASE CONSERVE RESOURCES AND SHARE THIS COPY WITH OTHERS BEFORE RECYCLING.
Senate Holds the Keys The world has recognized for the first time that action cannot be confined to one nation or group of nations, but must be by every nation. “Climate legislation can pass the Senate this year.” To find out how you can make a difference, go to www.edf.org go to bottom of page and click on “news and publications archive,” put “Power to the People, Winter 2010” into search engine. © Lee Robert
P.O. Box 11217 Jackson, WY 83002 www.earthfriends.com
PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER
NonProfit Org US Postage Paid Permit No. 1 Phoenix, AZ
Spring 2010 Vol. 5 No. 2 www.earthfriends.com �
�
Healthy Landscapes Protect What’s Yours Defenders of Wildlife created and is leading a nationwide coalition of groups in the “Your Lands, Your Wildlife” campaign, which advocates for balanced, science-based reforms to federal land-management policies that will ensure wildlife is protected for future generations. To protect what’s yours, go to www.yourlandsyourwidllife.org.
CONSERVATION’S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
© Karin McQuillan
Conservation’s Community Foundation Photos © Mike Snader
Cover Photo © Karin McQuillan
