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If you can eat vegan for one day you can help save 3.7 million square feet of forest and more! Take the meatout pledge here: http://www.meatout.org/pledge and remember to eat vegan on March 20th!

成龍 Jackie Chan reminds us that when you buy rhino horn "You are paying for guns, bullets, arrows, chainsaws, axes and machetes to hack off the face of the rhino, and you are paying for the life of a beautiful creature."

Ask Umbra: What should I get my sweetie for Valentine’s Day?

Ivory: the Elephant in the Room | OnEarth Magazine

Dian Fossey Birthday Remembrance "Fossey worried that mountain gorillas might not live to see the end of the last century. Thanks to the work Fossey started, which has been carried on through the intensive conservation methods used by the Fossey Fund today, they have survived and increased in number. If Fossey were still alive today, we believe that would be the best birthday present possible."

What is cradle to cradle? Cradle to Cradle is a continuous system, a new way of thinking about how we use materials and how we design products.

Ready to wrap all of those gifts? Do it more sustainably! http://www.greenchildmagazine.com/wrap-gifts-sustainably/

The food group Ferrero has announced that its flagship product Nutella is now using 100% segregated palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in the French market. Ferrero also confirmed that it will source exclusively RSPO-certified palm oil globally starting from 2014, bringing its initial target forward by one year.

For more eco-friendly gift ideas for this holiday season, check out my Pinterest board!

This year, why not give the gift of an experience rather than something that will end up in a landfill?

Video: An iceberg as big as the country of Singapore breaking off of Antarctica #climatechange http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2013/11/antarctica_iceberg_breaks_off_b_31_is_now_drifting_off_pine_island_glacier.html

Infographic: Who Profits From Recycling