http://eco-chick.com/2006/11/03/amazon-watchs-10th-anniversary-fundraiser/ Because Mother Earth Is A Woman Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:31:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://eco-chick.com/2006/11/03/amazon-watchs-10th-anniversary-fundraiser/#comment-27160 Starre Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:32:10 +0000 http://www.eco-chick.com/?p=592#comment-27160 It's weird that the rainforest used to be so 'popular' (as I remember when I was a kid) and now you don't hear about it as much. They are such amazing places! It's just like acid rain....it's still around, but people don't seem to care anymore. There are some great orgs keeping the issues in the public conscioussness- Rainforest Action Network is another great one. It’s weird that the rainforest used to be so ‘popular’ (as I remember when I was a kid) and now you don’t hear about it as much. They are such amazing places! It’s just like acid rain….it’s still around, but people don’t seem to care anymore. There are some great orgs keeping the issues in the public conscioussness- Rainforest Action Network is another great one.

]]> http://eco-chick.com/2006/11/03/amazon-watchs-10th-anniversary-fundraiser/#comment-26758 ecorazzi.com :: celebrities caught green-handed » Q’orianka Kilcher Works For A Greener World Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:38:45 +0000 http://www.eco-chick.com/?p=592#comment-26758 [...] The fine folks over at Eco-Chick just posted news of the 10th anniversary of Amazon Watch, an organization working for the protection of the rainforests of the Amazon as well as its indigenous people. The event took place in San Francisco and young actress Q’orianka Kilcher of The New World was in attendance. She has recently traveled to the Amazon rainforest to learn how the place and its people are affected by oil exploration, and has visited an area where LA-based company Occidental Petroleum has been drilling for oil since the 1970s. [...] [...] The fine folks over at Eco-Chick just posted news of the 10th anniversary of Amazon Watch, an organization working for the protection of the rainforests of the Amazon as well as its indigenous people. The event took place in San Francisco and young actress Q’orianka Kilcher of The New World was in attendance. She has recently traveled to the Amazon rainforest to learn how the place and its people are affected by oil exploration, and has visited an area where LA-based company Occidental Petroleum has been drilling for oil since the 1970s. [...]

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