by Denise [courtesy of Blog for America]

To restore native rain forests and offset the effects of climate change, earlier this month The Nature Conservancy initiated an ambitious fundraising campaign to plant 1 billion trees in the Atlantic Forest on the coast of Brazil.  Through years of accelerating deforestation, the Atlantic Forest has been reduced to only 7% of its former size.  It takes the Conservancy just one dollar to plant one tree.  In the three weeks since the campaign was launched, the Conservancy has raised over $252,000 - enough to plant an impressive 252,000 new trees.  Restoring the Atlantic Forest with 2 billion trees over the next several years will reestablish a crucial carbon sink.  Won’t you join me in celebrating Earth Day by supporting The Nature Conservancy’s Plant A Billion campaign?  As little as $10 or $20 will plant a small grove of trees that will create a lifetime of carbon sequestration.  Please donate whatever  you can to this worthy and necessary cause.  It's quick.  It's easy.  Just click the picture below:

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Jane Williams
Executive Director
California Communities Against Toxics

Carbon sequestration, sounds almost like a medical procedure or something they do as a military exercise. Most people have no idea what carbon sequestration, also known as geosequestration, is, much less where it would be done, how it would be done, who would do it, and to whom.

Despite this, there is a bill in the state legislature, AB 705, which would create regulations to govern carbon sequestration in California. In the last version of the bill, the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGER) would be the agency charged with creating and implementing the regulations. This is the agency that currently regulates the extraction of oil and gas.