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National Donate for Life Month

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Apr 1, 2006

April is National Donate Life Month, a time to bring awareness to the astounding fact that with a simple choice today, you can save a life. Really. You can give someone their life.

As a matter of fact, you can actually save SEVEN lives.

You can save seven, and help dozens of others by becoming an organ and tissue donor. The first step, aside from signing a donor card or indicating the gift on your driver’s license, is to express your decision to your family. Learn more and receive a donor card by visiting www.shareyourlife.org

Even though hundreds of thousands of people have provided the gift of life through a commitment to organ donation, there is still a tremendous need. More than 84,000 people are on the nation’s organ transplant waiting list. On average, 16 patients die each day while awaiting an organ. By getting involved, you can provide hope, and share in the abundance of gratitude. Want encouragement? Just read some of these stories of hope from Virginia.

Belief in a Higher Calling Creates Health

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Mar 31, 2006

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An article by Serena Gordon lists many positive ways that "spirituality" can influence health and longevity. But the experts interviewed are defining spirituality to include more than traditional religion. The executive director of the Integrative Medicine Initiative at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago said spirituality is where people find meaning in their life. It’s what brings them peace and safety:

"Some people feel it with a beautiful sunset. Some people get it from meditation. For some, it’s from their community. It’s a feeling that you’re connected to something greater, something larger than myself. For some that comes from their family," she said.

Ontario Hailed as First to Subsidize Solar Power

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Mar 28, 2006

Ontario, Canada announced an historic proposal to buy clean, renewable electricity from homeowners and entrepreneurs who produce solar, wind or other green power over the next 20 years by connecting them to the power grid. Premier Dalton McGuinty says he hopes the plan will see a quarter of a million homes powered by renewable energy within a decade.

While Canada is far behind European countries like Germany and the Netherlands in providing renewable energy, Ontario’s incentives are leading the way as the most progressive in North America, says well-known environmentalist David Suzuki.

"We’re taking a bold new step that will allow hundreds of small, local renewable-energy producers to get into the energy market," McGuinty said. (more info)

Nation Overcomes Turbulent History; Christian and Muslim Tanzanians Live in Peace

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Mar 28, 2006

With all the bad news associated with Africa, it is refreshing to read about the successes. Tanzania is a haven of co-existence between two peoples joined in unification in 1964, Tanzanian mainlanders, who are primarily Christian, and the Zanzibaris, who are 98 percent Muslim. Terry Mosher writes in the Montreal Gazette of the “lovely, helpful people” just south of the equator.

Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world, but it got a boost yesterday from the United Arab Emirates who made a large donation out of concern for the country’s food shortages wrought by draught, the Tanzanian IPP Media reports.

While the people are suffering from poverty and hunger, the government does not lose sight of the future.

Realizing that the health of its ecosystem is critical to their fortunes as a country, Tanzania used financial assistance from the World Bank to transfer seventy-two Kihansi spray toads to US zoos in 2002 following fears that they were on their way to extinction.

After remarkable success in the well-managed American zoos, where the toads multiplied by 200 percent, the exiled amphibians are on their way home.

“While many species of flora and fauna may appear to have no consumptive value today for humanity, the same species may prove to be extremely useful in future.”

Valuable Borneo Forests Set Aside to Sustain Endangered Orangutans, Elephants and Rhinos

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Mar 27, 2006

The government of the Malaysian state of Sabah announced Friday it will protect its most important remaining lowland forests on the island of Borneo. The surprising decision will permanently preserve one of just two places in the world where the endangered orangutans, Bornean Pygmy elephants and the critically endangered Sumatran rhino co-exist, and where forests are still large enough to maintain viable populations of each.

The plan, long sought by conservationists, places three forest reserves, which cover an area the size of Rhode Island, under sustainable forest management. Large-scale timber harvesting would end by 2007 and be replaced with sustainable forest management practices.

“This is one of the most important actions ever taken to secure the future of Borneo’s endangered wild mammals,” said Carter Roberts, CEO and President of Word Wildlife Fund – U.S.

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