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JOIN THE BILLION TREE CAMPAIGN: PLANT FOR THE PLANET
A world-wide effort
United Plant Savers is SO excited to be joining what we call “our kind of revolution”! We’ve been accused of being ‘tree-huggers’ for years, and it’s finally come into fashion. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is launching a major worldwide tree planting campaign. Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments will be encouraged to enter tree planting pledges on their website (www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign) with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007. Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2004 and founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees in 12 African countries since 1977, inspired the idea for the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign. When a corporate group in the United States told Professor Maathai it was planning to plant a million trees, her response was: “That’s great, but what we really need is to plant a billion trees.” Recognizing that there are many tree planting schemes around the world, UNEP proposes to federate these efforts in both rural and urban areas. People and entities – individuals, children and youth groups, schools, community groups, non-governmental organizations, farmers, private sector organizations, local authorities and national governments – are encouraged to enter pledges on the online form. Each pledge can be anything from a single tree to 10 million trees. UpS hopes that you will go to the website and make a pledge to plant one tree or many in your name using United Plant savers as your organization. We will be pledging tree plantings on our Ohio Sanctuary and we hope that you will join this planetary effort in 2007. We encourage you to plant native medicinal trees from our At-Risk and To-Watch list if possible. If you are unsure what will grow in your zone, you can go to the National Arbor Day Foundation website, type in your zip code, determine your zone and choose medicinal trees to plant. If you have difficulty finding seedlings or seeds, consult your recently published Nursery Directory (sent to all current UpS members), or call UpS for plant nursery references in your area.
The Billion Tree Campaign website has excellent and inspiring information about trees, how to plant a tree, the state of trees on our planet and other good information. This is an excellent project to do with children, community groups or for HerbDay 2007 (October 13, 2007). Commit to Action - Join the Billion Tree Campaign! Coming soon . . . a list of medicinal tree species!
Saturday, October 2nd at UpS' Goldenseal Sanctuary, Rutland Ohio Many hands-on, "in the field" classes!
Planting the Future - A Conference on the Conservation and Cultivation of Native Medicinal Plants Saturday, August 6th, 2011 to be held at Kickapoo Valley Reserve, La Farge, WI
Hard Working? Motivated to learn about medicinal plants?
Want an opportunity to live and work on United Plant Savers' 360-acre Botanical Sanctuary in Ohio?
Join us in our UpS Sanctuary Intern Program!
Spring Intern Session – Monday May 17 – Friday June 25, 2010
DEADLINE FOR SPRING APPLICATIONS: April 1, 2010 (Apply early for early acceptance) Fall Intern Session: Monday, August 30 – Friday, October 8, 2010
Fall session includes Planting the Future Conference on Goldenseal Sanctuary
DEADLINE FOR FALL APPLICATIONS: August 3, 2010 (Apply early for early acceptance) Michael Moore Memorial Intern Program Scholarship
Thanks to the great generosity of many people who contributed to the medical expense fund for our late teacher, UpS Advisory Board member and friend Michael Moore, his widow Donna Chesner has graciously endowed one full scholarship for this year’s UpS Internship Program at Goldenseal Sanctuary in Ohio. To apply for this special opportunity, we are asking for an essay to be submitted along with the usual internship application. The application is available velow (click [more]) or by contacting the Vermont office. Essays should focus on your experience with Michael and/or his many publications and teachings, why you would like to attend the UpS internship and why you should receive this scholarship. The recipient of this scholarship will still be responsible for travel to the program and personal expenses while there. It will cover the entire tuition fee.
Fall Root Giveaway 2010! This Fall’s Giveaway is a special opportunity to order 3 Goldenseal plants! We are very excited to once again offer plants wild cultivated at a neighboring Sanctuary in UpS’s newly named “Goldenseal Sanctuary” community of Rutland, Ohio. They will be robust, good-sized roots ready to thrive in a fertile, shady location. These plants have been growing on the once Frontier, once Rural Action lands, now owned and stewarded by the Paul Neidhardt family. You must be a current UpS member to be eligible for this give-away. One order per member please. Orders must be received by September 1st!!
The UpS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the election of Sara Katz as Board President. Founding President, Rosemary Gladstar passed her active leadership of 14 years to Sara at a ceremony held on the newly expanded Medicine Trail of UpS’s “Goldenseal Sanctuary” in Rutland, Ohio. Rosemary will remain an active Board member and visionary for the organization.
By Chip Carroll – United Plant Savers Intern Manager
The United Plant Savers Internship Program was brought back to life again this past fall with 6 interns enrolling for a 6-week session. Interns from many diverse backgrounds came from all over the country to live and work on the 378-acre Botanical Sanctuary in Rutland, Ohio (in years past, interns have come from as far away as Japan and Ireland). Over the 6-week program each of the interns performed 25-30 hours of work a week on Sanctuary related projects for a total of over 900 hours of labor! Much of the work performed revolved around the “Talking Forest” trails project currently taking place at the Sanctuary.
Many of our members have herb businesses and have created ways for their “money green” to support the UpS green! Thank you to all the companies who donate a portion of sales to UpS! Click [more] for the list of supporters . . .
Events Planned to “Celebrate Herbs and Herbalism”
The next HerbDay will take place on May first, 2010
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed removing the Tennessee purple coneflower ( Echinacea tennesseensis) from the list of threatened and endangered species, marking the success of a decades-long cooperative conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act.
By The Capital-Journal
December 18, 2009 - 9:29am
LAWRENCE — A new native medicinal plant research program at The University of Kansas has earned funding for a five-year, $5 million project titled "Innovation Center for Advanced Plant Design: Plants for the Heartland."
Mother Nature’s son: Preserving ‘Appalachia’s herb basket’
by Beth Sergent RUTLAND — Though Meigs County is infamously known for one herb in particular, it is actually home to one of the largest wild populations of goldenseal, blue and black cohosh, wild ginger and ramps in the United States.
Medicinal herbs in the U.S. and around the world are becoming endangered, and you can help with a few hours of your time.
Plants and Their Friends, an award winning talk show, now streaming on internet
"To-Watch" SW herb in the news.
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has just released a series of brochures to encourage good stewardship practices by those who harvest wild American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) roots.
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