Backyard Collectives 2010: BYC Bend Style

  A few weeks ago we got to spend sometime in our "sort of" backyard — Portland — but this week we got to get our hands dirty for conservation in our actual backyard: Bend! We had forty employees from local member companies participate in trail building, garbage removal, and invasive tree removal in the…

Arctic Wilderness Review Raises Hopes, Alarms

  From the PEW Environment Group via E&E Daily:  Environmental groups are crowing while Alaska's congressional delegation is condemning the Obama administration's announcement Monday that it will consider proposing new wilderness designations within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Nearly half of ANWR has already been declared wilderness, a designation that carries strict restrictions on human…

Grantee Weekly Grind: Arctic Wilderness Review Raises Hopes, Alarms

  From the PEW Environment Group via E&E Daily:    Environmental groups are crowing while Alaska's congressional delegation is condemning the Obama administration's announcement Monday that it will consider proposing new wilderness designations within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Nearly half of ANWR has already been declared wilderness, a designation that carries strict restrictions on…

Udall Introduces Bill to Expand San Juan Mountain Wilderness

     Photo: Jonathan Richter On September 27, Mark Udall announced that he has introduced a bill to preserve some of the state’s most iconic public lands in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act would designate 33,000 acres as wilderness – mostly as expansions of the existing Lizard…

Backyard Collectives 2010: Portland Hosts Largest BYC Yet!

  Another week, another Backyard Collective… this time right in our own backyard: Portland! More than 235 employees from eight Conservation Alliance member companies — Columbia Sportswear; KEEN; Nau; Horny Toad/Lizard Lounge; The North Face; REI; Under Solen Media; and Ben Moon Photography — participated in trail restoration, invasive weed removal, and other projects in…

Polar Bear Ad: Good, or Just More Greenwashing?

  Earlier this month, Nissan debuted "Polar Bear," a video advertisement for the new Nissan LEAF — a zero-emission, 100-percent electric vehicle. In this story, a sad polar bear watches its Arctic home melt away and journeys from the icy north through forests, highways and over bridges to the big city and then to the suburbs,…

Grantee Weekly Grind: World’s Premiere Photographers Join Forces to Protect British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest

Photo courtesy Ian McAllister, iLCP Conservation Alliance grantee Pacific Wild has teamed up with the iLCP, a group of internationally renowned photographers, to take part in a RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Home to white spirit bears, ancient forests, and stunning marine biodiversity, it is one of the planet's…