Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Designation of Critical Habitat for Jaguar

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Designation of Critical Habitat for Jaguar In total, we propose

to designate as critical habitat approximately 339,220 hectares 
(838,232 acres) in Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties, Arizona, and 
Hidalgo County, New Mexico.

Urban Food Week

Urban Food Week UK

The event is a collaboration between restaurant network Ethical Eats; Capital Growth - the campaign to create 2012 new food-growing spaces by 2012; and Capital Bee, which promotes community beekeeping in London. 

Restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs across the capital will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs, and from honey made by bees in community hives. 

Restaurants can choose to ‘adopt a plot’, or ‘adopt a hive’, and build a long-term relationship with their local growing space or beekeeper.  Or they can simply buy produce on an ad hoc basis during Urban Food Week and create some exciting menu specials with it. 

We’ll provide postcards, posters, badges and stickers to promote the week, and talk to the press and generally get the word out via our networks and Twitter etc. 

We’ll also be running a competition to find the best menu special put on during the week, with winners voted by the public. 

Afghan Women's Writing Project | The Window

Afghan Women's Writing Project | The Window

I look from my room’s window
Try to see my future,
I see a long way to go.
Life changes its face as weather changes seasons
Trees lose leaves just as I
lose every day of my life.

I look from my room’s window
and think, “Where did my smile go?
Where has my happiness gone?”
I am strange to myself.
Looking from my room’s window.
I see how my life is passing
But my days and nights the same

Looking from my room’s window,
I am not a child at play anymore
I am not child to have my hand held
I am grown
I have to find my own way
As I look from my room’s window
I think how I will build my future.

by Shogofa

Amazon CARES: Wordless Wednesday: Nuns, Orphans, Rescue Dogs!

Amazon CARES: Wordless Wednesday: Nuns, Orphans, Rescue Dogs!: Mother Superior Maria Jose and a Sister look on with two orphaned girls that reside at their orphanage.  They adopted a pit bull, Sally...