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...Nature Conservancy approached a San Francisco nonprofit environmental organization called Sustainable Conservation to spearhead an action plan to combat invasives in California, one of the hardest hit states in the nation. Bringing together environmentalists, ecologists, government agencies and professional horticulturists, along with representatives from industry, the group formulated PlantRight, an educational program designed to promote phasing out the use of destructive species and encourage planting of local varieties. Recognizing the value of a voluntary program - something that many other states failed to do - PlantRight doesn't call for outright statewide bans of any invasive species. Instead it makes recommendations based...
...nonprofit firm that provides licenses and permission to reuse published material has recently announced an initiative that allows academic institutions to pay a single annual fee to access copyrighted material...
Debra DeLee, 52, who is divorced and the director of a nonprofit group in Washington, is so taken with her life--a gorgeous Capitol Hill town house, trips all over the world and a silver blue BMW roadster--that she's reluctant to change it even for the man of her dreams, Arnie Miller, 59, an executive recruiter who lives in Boston. "We talk about getting married, but this is so good right now," says DeLee, who ran the Democratic Convention in 1996. "Two minutes before he leaves, I think it's so hard to see him pick...
...five have met with the campaign staffs of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Smith has also given presentations to the Democratic and Republican national committees and leaders of both parties in the House and the Senate. Because her organization is nonpartisan and nonprofit, Smith cannot actually consult for or advise political candidates. But she can tell them what works - and what doesn...
...environmental expiation. If you wish, when you buy a plane ticket, they will figure out how much carbon your trip will be adding to the atmosphere and charge you for it. (For Boston to Los Angeles, about 3,000 miles, it comes to around $9.) The money goes to nonprofit groups that either plant trees to absorb the carbon or produce an equal amount of energy in an eco-friendly way (using windmills and such). You are still increasing the carbon in the air, but someone else, thanks to you, is reducing it by an equal amount. The net effect...