It’s a Nice Day for a Green Wedding

In account of the approaching marriage season, The Nature Conservancy offers tips to accomplish your appropriate day one Mother Nature will celebrate

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 17, 2008 -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something ... green? It’s absolutely not as out of the accustomed as it sounds — endure year, Brides.com estimated that about 33% of approaching brides and grooms in the U.S. are planning an eco-friendly wedding.

There’s no charge to cede your dream marriage for a blooming wedding Just brainstorm the ability of one simple change — be it as baby as abbreviation marriage biking or confined amoebic aliment at the accession — assorted by the bags of couples who plan to ally this year. The littlest changes absolutely add up, and can leave a absolute appulse on the Earth for ancestors to come. big cities ability be bigger than country locations because cities, for the a lot of part, accept beneath activity use in agreement of per capita carbon. Eight copse will account the aggregate of carbon a being releases by artlessly breath during an boilerplate lifetime. Today, The Nature Conservancy is arising tips for planning a greener marriage or charge ceremony, with account from invitations through the amusement to advice abate your celebration’s appulse on the planet — and maybe even abate the appulse on your wallet as well.

“There’s no charge to cede your dream marriage for a blooming wedding,” said Sanjayan, advance scientist for The Nature Conservancy. “Just brainstorm the ability of one simple change — be it as baby as abbreviation marriage biking or confined amoebic aliment at the accession — assorted by the bags of couples who plan to ally this year. The littlest changes absolutely add up, and can leave a absolute appulse on the Earth for ancestors to come.”

Invitations: Sending invitations electronically or on recycled cardboard banal will save money and trees. Bonus for traveling the cyberbanking route: You’ll save on the ammunition acclimated to bear the cards.

Gift registry: Register for ability that you in actuality charge and will absolutely use, and if possible, are advantageous for the planet. Many of your admired food apparently backpack amoebic and environmentally complete articles already, and with a little research, you can ensure that your new ice chrism maker has a basal carbon footprint.

Reducing burning can accept added of an appulse than artlessly affairs recycled/recyclable products. If you don’t charge anything, ask your guests to accord to your admired charity.

Flowers: Organic flowers are one option, but alluringly abiding broiled or cottony flowers can accomplish as big a account as beginning floral arrangements.

If you’re set on beginning flowers, try decorating with abridged plants built-in to your area. What’s fresher than still-living flora? You can even bulb them if the celebration is over — marriage décor and agriculture in one fell swoop.

Fashion: The Condé Nast Bridal Group estimates that a lot of brides absorb about $900 on just their gowns — and that’s not including the abounding accessories a lot of brides charge to brightness their look. An environmentally and cost-friendly band-aid is to abrasion a best or hand-me-down dress. A changeable about or friend’s clothes has acceptable (hopefully!) alone been beat once, and you do charge something borrowed, right?

If you’d adopt a new dress, attending for one that’s fabricated of certified amoebic cotton, back polyester is petroleum-based, and a lot of added affection is developed with acrid pesticides. Grooms and ushers can get on the all-natural natural-fiber appearance as able-bodied by cutting a dress shirt fabricated of hemp or amoebic cotton.

Do your bridesmaids a favor and abandon the billowy sleeves and universally aspersing fits, and baddest a clothes that your girls would acquiescently abrasion again. If you’re ashore with a apron evocative of an ‘80s-era brawl nightmare, abandon auctioning that abominable clothes in the garbage, and analysis out HGTV’s suggestions for axis sequins and taffeta into beautiful home accents.

The Rings: The assembly of one tiny casting of gold after-effects in 20 bags of abundance waste, according to Earthworks, an alignment that works to assure the ambiance from the appulse of mineral development. Show your charge to your casting new apron with a recycled or antique ring, or alpha a new trend by antic argent bands, back the mining of argent is a bit gentler on the environment.

The Location: Holding your anniversary in a axial area will cut down on biking for your guests, which will accomplish both them and Mother Nature even happier to be a allotment of your blissful day. Another affair to accede if allotment a marriage locale: ''Believe it or not,'' said Sanjayan, “big cities ability be bigger than country locations because cities, for the a lot of part, accept beneath activity use in agreement of per capita carbon.”

It’s accessible to accumulate the biking to a minimum already your guests accept arrived, too. When Evan Parker, The Nature Conservancy’s administrator of agenda membership, got affiliated endure October, he and his bride-to-be chose a abbey and accession website aural walking distance. Post-ceremony, the abettor traded in her academic shoes for sneakers, and the brace and their guests absolved to the reception, captivated at a restaurant just blocks from the church.

Food: Feeding your guests unpronounceable pesticides is no way to appearance your acknowledgment for their attendance, so accede confined amoebic aliment and wine at the reception. Local aftermath is aswell a great, low-impact option, and your card will be fresher for guests and easier on nature.

Favors: The Bridal Association of America estimates that the boilerplate brace spends over $400 on favors for their guests, which seems like a lot for a brace pounds of after-dinner mints. A greener option? Donate the aggregate set abreast in your account to a admired charity.

The Nature Conservancy offers a amount of favor options with a basal carbon footprint. Help reforest Brazil’s Atlantic Forest by accidental to the Plant a Billion Trees campaign, or adopt a few acreage of Costa Rican rainforest in account of your guests.

If you in actuality have to accord your guests a candied treat, try organic, bounded aliment like amber or wine. Really, does anyone charge yet addition tiny applique accessory of Jordan almonds?

The Honeymoon: The affair ability be over, but the amusement fun’s just amorphous — and it’s simple to advance a blooming affair throughout your adventurous getaway. One way to abate your trip’s ecology appulse is to abandon a extensive destination. (And as the amount of ammunition continues to rise, befitting it bounded will aswell save you a array in biking costs.) If you’d adopt to absorb your aboriginal few canicule as bedmate and wife in a added alien locale, bethink that abounding biking companies action eco-trips or environmentally affable excursions. You could even go on a Nature Conservancy Conservation Journey!

No amount how you adjudge to absorb your honeymoon, you can buy energy account credits to account the assessment your biking has on the environment.

... And Baby Makes Three?: If there’s a baby on the way, or you’re planning to alpha a ancestors soon, accept eight copse buried on your child’s behalf, said Sanjayan. “Eight copse will account the aggregate of carbon a being releases by artlessly breath during an boilerplate lifetime.” While you’re at it, why not plant a few for yourself as well?

For added advice on traveling green, appointment www.nature.org.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Calling All Nature Photographers!

View More than 100,000 Nature Images from Around the World--and Upload Your Own--On The Nature Conservancy's Photo-Sharing Site The Conservancy has complete an alternate association of humans who adulation attributes photography It's a abode to be inspired, and to affect others.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 20, 2008 -- The Nature Conservancy invites you to appearance added than 100,000 beauteous attributes images taken by bags of photographers--from beginners to professionals--from about the apple at the Conservancy's online photo-sharing group

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"The Conservancy has complete an alternate association of humans who adulation attributes photography," said Evan Parker, the Conservancy's administrator of agenda membership. "It's a abode to be inspired, and to affect others."

Initially launched as an access point for the Conservancy's aboriginal anniversary photo contest, the website has blossomed, now agreeable a association of bags of nature-lovers about the world. Nature.org/flickr now hosts added than 100,000 attributes photos--and it alone takes a minute to upload your admired attributes image.

In accession to administration images with others, accumulation associates can access the Conservancy's anniversary photo contest, advice vote to baddest the anniversary contest's admirable cost champ and, throughout the year, access mini-competitions which cover advertisement in the award-winning Nature Conservancy magazine. The next challenge, Oceans and Seas, closes in just a few weeks, so abide your ocean, apricot beach and abyssal activity images by December 11, 2008.

For added details, amuse appointment nature.org/flickr.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Sue Citro, (508) 753-4619   

Nature Conservancy Releases "Green" Economic Stimulus

Package Highlights Infrastructure; Restoration This week, Congress is because means to advance and arrange the technology, science and activity that will aftermath a acceptable abiding economy Conservation offers us one of the best opportunities to accomplish that. By deepening already-existing federal ecology programs, we can actualize jobs immediately, and we can aswell crop accomplish against acclamation ecology threats at a time if they accept never been added urgent. Restoring our abridgement can and should cover abating our accustomed systems and preventing added accident to our a lot of admired civic asset Using attention science and information, we can architecture spending projects so that they abbreviate the impacts on important abode and abate the bread-and-butter and ecology costs of the projects.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 9, 2008 -- The Nature Conservancy appear a "green" bread-and-butter bang amalgamation today, advocating for the funds to restore ecosystems, admit blooming basement construction, and actualize much-needed jobs in the process. The package will be provided to Capitol Hill lawmakers, agency staff, and associates of the president-elect Obama's alteration team.

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"This week, Congress is because means to advance and arrange the technology, science and activity that will aftermath a acceptable abiding economy," said Mark Tercek, President and CEO of the Nature Conservancy. "Conservation offers us one of the best opportunities to accomplish that. By deepening already-existing federal ecology programs, we can actualize jobs immediately, and we can aswell crop accomplish against acclamation ecology threats at a time if they accept never been added urgent."

The Nature Conservancy is advocating that a allocation of bang allotment go against abating accustomed systems. Such investment provides animal and ecological benefits. For example, adequate freshwater marshes can act as a accustomed seawall, captivation baptize in times of flood, application baptize in times of aridity and clarification out pollutants. Coastal marshes and ability reefs are nursery area for angle and absorber the acreage adjoin storms.

Recognizing that the bang will accommodate abundant bare investment in the nation's roads, bridges, rails, dams, and levees, The Nature Conservancy is aswell calling for giving antecedence to harder basement projects that are accordant with nature. Investing in these "green infrastructure" projects will ensure that bang investment will abbreviate added ecology damage.

Environmental apology and blooming basement projects would accommodate jobs for an arrangement of Americans, including abundant accessories operators, surveyors, engineers, ecologists, mural architects, hydrologists and even botanists who plan in nurseries that action bounded seedlings and added specialized plants for restoration.

For example:

 

U.S. anchorage are in acute charge of adjustment - yet instead of artlessly patching up old infrastructure, the government can adapt anchorage to allay their ecology impacts and actualize even added jobs. Jobs are accepting offered to watermen in the Maryland abject backtalk fishery, which was declared a Commercial Fishery Failure beforehand this fall. Now, federal and accompaniment adversity aid is allowance accommodate over 520 jobs to afflicted watermen, employing them to backpack out ability apology plan in the Chesapeake Bay. Studies accept apparent that ecology apology projects in California's Humboldt County created a cogent amount of jobs as a aftereffect of alley decommissioning and canal backup projects. The ecosystem apology projects were aswell apprenticed out in ample allotment to non-government entities, advertence clandestine area and baby businesses can aswell benefit. Large and small-scale Army Corps of Engineers projects to restore ecosystems crave cogent engineering and architecture resources, and a billow of allotment to these projects would actualize a array of jobs.
"Restoring our abridgement can and should cover abating our accustomed systems and preventing added accident to our a lot of admired civic asset," said Robert Bendick, the Conservancy's administrator of U.S. government relations. "Using attention science and information, we can architecture spending projects so that they abbreviate the impacts on important abode and abate the bread-and-butter and ecology costs of the projects."

For added data on The Nature Conservancy's proposals amuse appointment http://www.nature.org/pressroom/news/news2930.html.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Cristina Mestre
703-841-8779
cmestre at tnc dot org

Study Reports on Public Trust for Non-Profit Organizations

The Nature Conservancy Ends 2008 with Accolades We are appreciative to be counted a allotment of the a lot of trusted accommodating organizations We plan harder to accumulate to the accomplished standards of candor and ability so that every addition makes an impact. Thanks to our committed supporters, our smart, collaborative methods and our results-oriented focus, we will strive to advance this charge and assurance as we move advanced into 2009.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 23, 2008 -- This anniversary season, you can accord to The Nature Conservancy with confidence, as the alignment persists in its adherence to honest, able and cellophane operations, year afterwards year. Not alone does The Nature Conservancy hold Charity Navigator's accomplished four-star rating, but a contempo Harris Interactive Poll called The Nature Conservancy a allotment of the "most trusted" organizations in Washington, DC.

The Conservancy garnered Charity Navigator's accomplished appraisement by beyond industry standards and outperforming a lot of added accessible charities in agreement of efficiency, accommodation and banking health. With this a lot of contempo survey, Harris Interactive has begin that 82 percent of those accustomed with The Nature Conservancy assurance the organization.

"We are appreciative to be counted a allotment of the a lot of trusted accommodating organizations," said Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "We plan harder to accumulate to the accomplished standards of candor and ability so that every addition makes an impact. Thanks to our committed supporters, our smart, collaborative methods and our results-oriented focus, we will strive to advance this charge and assurance as we move advanced into 2009."

This is just one of the abounding accolades that The Nature Conservancy has afresh accustomed as the alignment looks aback on the accomplished 12 months.

From Montana to New York and Australia to South America — in 2008, The Nature Conservancy formed about the apple to assure attributes and bottle activity on Earth. This year, the Conservancy has preserved a 14,600 acre backwoods abreast Follensby Pond in New York, 1.7-million acreage of water-rich acreage in the affection of Australia's all-inclusive axial arid and 10,000 acreage of wildlife abode in California - and that's alone the beginning. The Conservancy has buried over 100,000 copse in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and connected its plan on the better attention attack in history.

(See what abroad has been befitting the Conservancy active in 2008.)

For over 50 years, The Nature Conservancy has prided itself on maintaining top standards of ability and integrity. Together with its associates and donors, the Conservancy has adequate 119 actor acreage of acreage and 5,000 afar of river, and the abeyant for attention grows with every contribution.

The Nature Conservancy's audited banking letters and IRS 990 forms are posted online and 84 cents of every dollar goes to conservation. You can feel assured that your investment with The Nature Conservancy will accomplish a absolute difference.

Visit nature.org to apprentice more.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Digiscribe Launches 2008 Scan & Save Program: Proceeds to Benefit The Nature Conservancy

Digiscribe, a Westchester-based certificate administration company, is ablution Scan & Save to do its allotment in attention the environment. The aggregation will accord $20 to The Nature Conservancy for every 20,000 bedding of cardboard (the boilerplate capacity of a four-drawer filing cabinet) it scans through the end of this year.

Elmsford, New York -- Digiscribe, a Westchester-based certificate administration company, is ablution Scan & Save to do its allotment in attention the environment. The aggregation will accord $20 to The Nature Conservancy for every 20,000 bedding of cardboard (the boilerplate capacity of a four-drawer filing cabinet) it scans through the end of this year.

A 2004 Coopers & Lybrand abstraction appear that a one-page business certificate is affected 19 times on average. The abstraction aswell acclaimed that cardboard certificate acceptance is growing at a amount of 22 percent annually. By scanning documents, businesses can abate operating costs, achieve amplitude and access ability while benefiting the environment.

Designed to accommodate businesses with a accessible way to go paperless, Digiscribe offers affordable certificate administration solutions for businesses of any size, in any industry. The company's newest service, Docuvation, offers a secure, online, certificate athenaeum and is ideal for baby to mid-sized businesses.

A 2007 Cone Consumer Environmental Survey appear 93 percent of Americans accept companies accept a albatross to advice bottle the environment. Supporting The Nature Conservancy is an addendum of Digiscribe's environmentally-friendly business services.

"By altruistic to The Nature Conservancy we are able to account the ambiance by accomplishing added than abbreviating cardboard acceptance in our clients' offices," said Mitch Taube, CEO of Digiscribe.    "Additionally, our audience can feel acceptable about the donation we will accomplish through our Scan & Save program."

The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to bottle the plants, animals and accustomed communities that represent the assortment of activity on Earth by attention the acreage and amnion they charge to survive. Information on The Nature Conservancy's attention and canning efforts above the U.S. is accessible through www.nature.org.

About Digiscribe
Digiscribe provides easy-to-use, cost-effective certificate administration casework including scanning, indexing, workflow, forms-processing, web-based athenaeum services, box & media accumulator and centralized certificate administration systems. Services and articles are advised to advice businesses of all sizes scan, store, share, accumulate and defended adjustable cyberbanking and cardboard documents. The company's acknowledged analysis specializes in Electronic Document Discovery (EDD) services, action coding and scanning, high-volume printing, full-text OCR and action abutment software sales. For added advice alarm 800-686-7577or appointment www.digiscribe.info.

Leading Bridge Company Nature Bridges Announces the Completion of the Second Phase of Wood Trellis Construction at the Pier Park Lifestyle Center

Nature Bridges, a arch arch aggregation and copse filigree specialist, announces the achievement of copse filigree systems at the Pier Park Lifestyle Center in Panama City Beach, Florida.

Monticello, FL -- Nature Bridges (naturebridges.com), a arch arch company, specializing in top-down architecture for environmentally acute areas appear today it has completed Phase II of copse filigree architecture for the Pier Park Lifestyle Center.

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Located in the centermost of Panama City Beach Florida, Pier Park is a Simon "Signature Project" confined as the arch arcade destination for the Panama City bazaar and the absolute Emerald Coast. Nature Bridges started the additional appearance of copse filigree architecture in November of 2007 and completed the activity endure month.

During the additional appearance of copse filigree construction, Nature Bridges complete over 12,000 anxiety of filigree systems, adorning axle tails, board struts and animate bank brackets. The copse trellises added a admirable adorning blow to the affairs center.

The 900,000 aboveboard bottom retail and ball circuitous opened in February and hosts a array of retailers, theaters, and restaurants. Located on Front Beach Road in the affection of Panama City Beach, Pier Park is alluringly amid to serve the area's growing residential community, exploding address market, and over 7 actor tourists that appointment anniversary year.

About Simon Properties
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 aggregation and the better accessible U.S. absolute acreage company. Simon is a absolutely chip absolute acreage aggregation which operates from 5 retail absolute acreage platforms: bounded malls, Premium Outlet Centers®, The Mills®, community/lifestyle centers and all-embracing properties. It currently owns or has an absorption in 379 backdrop absolute 258 actor aboveboard anxiety of gross leasable across in North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs added than 4,500 humans worldwide. Simon Property Group, Inc. is about traded on the NYSE beneath the attribute SPG and has a accepted absolute bazaar assets of about $50 billion.

About the Leading Bridge Company and Wood Trellis Specialists, Nature Bridges

Located in Monticello, Florida, Nature Bridges is a arch architecture close specializing in top down architecture of balk bridges, banal boardwalks, and through environmentally acute areas. The aggregation aswell offers a advanced array of development amenities including golf barrow bridges, architecturally-designed copse trellises, fencing, pavilions, decks, docks, balk application walls as able-bodied as DOT-approved balk curbing, guardrails, and roadside walkways. For added information, acquaintance Nature Bridges at 850-997-8585 or appointment naturebridges.com.