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The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, Green Fire highlights Leopold's extraordinary career, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement.

http://www.greenfiremovie.com/

Volunteers needed to plant marsh grass in Hackberry March 21, 2011

The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and the America's WETLAND Foundation are looking for volunteers to help plant 5,000 plugs of marsh grass at the Black Lake Marsh/Marcantel Property wetland restoration site in Hackberry, LA.

http://www.sulphurdailynews.com/news/x2011256616/Volunteers-needed-to-plant-marsh-grass-in-Hackberry

This year's Restoration Institute, held in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), will bring together ecosystem experts and policy-makers from around the world to discuss the practical and policy issues arising from novel or no-analogue ecosystems.

http://www.restorationinstitute.ca/

Jairam Ramesh is the global rock star of climate change

The following is an excerpt from The Ocean Conservancy's Draft Letter to President Obama: Ecosystem-based Restoration: The overarching goal of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Plan should be restoration of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem to a healthy and productive status, which maintains a full complement of biodiversity and sustains appropriate human uses.

Turning back the climatic clock in Australia: Improving land management and farming practices in Australia could have an effect on global climate change, according to a study published in the International Journal of Water.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/ip-nsf031511.php

Prince Charles has warned that the British countryside risks being ruined by monoculturalism, and that if society continues to spurn village pubs and traditional crafts, it will end up "pulling threads" from the "delicate tapestry" of rural life.

http://www.sify.com/news/prince-charles-warns-that-monoculturalism-is-killing-rural-communities-news-international-ldpradfciag.html

In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress, Stern described his current understanding of the stark consequences of inaction, which defy the scope of standard economic language. If no global policy to cut carbon pollution is enacted, there is about a 50 percent risk that global temperatures would rise above levels not seen for 30 million years by 2100, an extraordinary rate of change. The "potentially immense" consequences of this radical transformation of our planet, Stern explained, include the "serious risk of global war":

The City's Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica has been studied in depth by scientific experts with unparalleled expertise in aquatic ecology and wildlife, hydrology, coastal engineering and ecosystem restoration. The scientists' consensus is that removing the golf course to restore habitat east of the lagoon is essential for the long-term sustainability of endangered species. They recommend removing the seawall and the golf course and restoring the functions of the original natural ecosystem to protect the endangered San Francisco garter snake and red-legged frog.
 

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/03/restoring-sharp-park-natural-ecosystems-would-save-millions

The Army Corps of Engineers' $2.9 billion plan to rebuild wetlands destroyed by the recently closed Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet is far too small and too slow and improperly bills Louisiana for its cost, the state's senior coastal restoration official said in a letter released Thursday.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2011/03/coastal_authority_denounces_co.html

Cleanup and restoration of UC Santa Barbara's 69-acre South Parcel has begun under the supervision of the campus's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER). UCSB and The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County recently announced that the tract would be permanently set aside as open space under a conservation easement agreement.

http://www.independent.com/news/2011/mar/01/cleanup-restoration-ucsbs-south-parcel-has-begun/

Residential development and wetland restoration, two projects that may seem completely at odds with each other, have found a way to work together in the Warrenton area. People on both sides hope their solution becomes a new way to do business.