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Trips for Charities www.tripsforcharities.org Sustainable Earth Adventures www.sustainable-earth-adventures.com	It's almost vacation time again & Spring Break is in the air. Why not make your vacation one that counts & makes a positive difference! Take a moment to volunteer or take other actions that leave your destination better than when you arrived!	See Turtles www.seeturtles.org See The Wild www.seethewild.org
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159 Days Until the London 2012 Olympic Games! London Re-Calling: Ray Lump TeamUSA.org/ Drew Silverman FULL STORY 2/17/12 Couldn't resist :) - 11 Underwater Pictures Of Dogs Diving To Fetch 22 Words PHOTOS 1/7/12 76 Year Old Sioux Man To Run Boston Marathon The MetroWest Daily News/ Michael Morton FULL ARTICLE 1/7/12 A Tough Decision To Make: Homeless Man Finds Inspiration Through Activism Rome News-Tribune/ Brittany Hannah FULL STORY 1/7/12	Watch Iowa Bald Eagle Eggs Hatching Live! National Wildlife Federation/ Wildlife Promise VIEW/INFO 2/17/12 Pictures: America's "Lost" National Parks National Geographic/ Brian Handwerk PHOTOS/INFO 2/17/12 February 2012 Guide To The 5 Visible Planets EarthSky.org/ Bruce McClure FULL STORY 2/17/12 10 Great Science Stories You Might Have Missed Smithsonian LIST/INFO 1/7/12 Species Finder Android Application From the Center of Biological Diversity INFORMATION 1/7/12	'Graffiti Of War Project' Examines What's Left Behind In War RecordOnLine/ Deborah J. Botti FULL ARTICLE 2/17/12 Mentors Help Children With Deployed Parents USA Today/ Amy Bowen & Kirsti Marohn FULL ARTICLE 2/17/12 The Dog Of War: Sgt. 1st Class Zeke Helps Fairbanks-based Soldiers Deal With Stress News-Miner/ Cheryl Hatch FULL ARTICLE 1/7/12 Seizures In Vets Often Misdiagnosed WebMD/ Jennifer Warner FULL ARTICLE 1/7/12 101 Ways To Thank A Veteran MilitaryAvenue.com LIST It's Never Too Late To Say Thank You History.com
Inside The ISS - Time Lapse YouTube/ NASAtelevision VIDEO 1/7/12	Scientists Tickle Animals To Find Laughter Clues BBC/ Rebecca Morelle FULL ARTICLE 1/7/12	"This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is the home of the brave." ~ Elmer Davis
HEALTHY LIVING	FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES	FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Can Living In the Moment Improve Your Health? New Science 101/ News In Health FULL ARTICLE 2/17/12 Household Chemicals Can Decrease A Child's Immunity Mother Nature Network VIDEO 2/17/12 5 Online Sources For Local Organic Food Delivery treehugger/ Blythe Copeland LIST/INFO 2/17/12 Pediatricians Issue A Call To Aid Children Facing 'Toxic Stress' Los Angeles Times/ Melissa Healy FULL ARTICLE 1/7/12	10 Tips To Get Kids Outside The Conservation Fund/ Children & Nature LIST & INFO 2/17/12 Shark Family Addison YouTube/sharkangels VIDEO 1/7/12 Coconut Help Students Learn About Red Tide NBC-2 FULL STORY 1/7/12 The Girl Who Silenced The World At The U.N. For 5 Minutes YouTube/ vash4884 VIDEO 12/11/11	ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A CURATOR? Smithsonian Institution: Every correct answer will win ten cents for this month's museum! QUIZ "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke
Lemon Juice: 20 Unusual Household Uses Huffington Post/ Eco Salon's Stephanie Rogers PHOTOS/INFO 1/7/12 Make Your Own Non-Toxic Household Cleaners Cinco Vidas Blog/ Britta Aragon FULL POST	11 Tips To Encourage Your Kids To Learn About & Love Science MiniMe Geology LIST Please check out & support Kids of the Gulf ~ A Film About Kids Changing the World INFORMATION/ DONATE	To Report A Sighting Of A Missing Child: 24 Hour Line 1-800-843-5678 or Log On To www.missingkids.com Do you suspect a child is being abused? Call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD
		Talk To Your Daughters AND Your Sons ~ National Teen Dating Violence Hotline: 1-866-331-9474 www.loveisrespect.org It's Not Just Domestic Violence: The Beginner's Guide To 16 Types of Violence Against Women: The Pixel Project

Links To Individuals, Like You & Me, Making A Positive Difference To Our Ocean & Beaches: The Daily Ocean The Flotsam Diaries It Starts With Me/ Our Daily Ocean Save Our Beach	New App makes It Easy For Beachgoers To Report Marine Debris NOAA.gov http://www.marinedebris.engr.uga.edu/ Southeast Atlantic Marine Debris Initiative: http://sea-mdi.engr.uga.edu/	Groovy News Networks Beach Cleanup Reports Posted On The Daily Ocean: June 2010 ~ July 2010 April 2011 ~ Sanibel Island, FL: Happy to find little trash. April there were quite a few old crab traps in the shallows & ones that had been beached.
The Bait Tank	Wherever you go, take a spare bag & take the time to pick up trash. Even though the trash may not be yours, it is our world & we are responsible for keeping it clean. Just think if everyone did that, how beautiful our world would be!	September 2011 ~ Sanibel & Pine Islands, FL: Collected someone's forgotten trash hanging in trees near the pier on Sanibel. Some plastic cigar tips & plastic remnants, otherwise pretty clean. Glad to see recycling bins along w/trash containers!

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