1. Add Your Pledge to the Billion Tree Campaign!

Join Wangari Maathai's Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign:
www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/

This effort, launch by the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), aims to mobilize individuals, communities, businesses, non-
profit organizations and governments to commit to tree planting
pledges entered online at
www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/pledges/with the goal of
collectively planting at least one billion trees worldwide during
2007.

At the UNEP Governing Council meeting in Nairobi this past month
close to 90 million trees were pledged, including a planting pledge
of 45 million trees by Cameroon; one million by Haiti; 20 million by
Myanmar; and 20 million by Venezuela. Pledges also came from Kenyan
groups including youth networks. During the campaign's first two
months over a quarter of a billion pledges were received, putting the
campaign on track to reach its goal!

By empowering all levels of society -- from governments to grass
roots organizations -- to take practical steps to reduce pressures on
primary forest, the Billion Tree Campaign will not only help conserve
biodiversity, reduce soil erosion and promote carbon dioxide
absorption but will also serve as a powerful expression of global
solidarity.


2. Join Avaaz.Org And Sign The Global Warming Petition

Read about www.avaaz.org later in this newsletter and sign their
petition to get global leaders to take stronger action on global
warming! www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action/


3. Attend an Idealist.org Start Up Meeting

Read about idealist.org later. To find or host a meeting in your
area, and for more details about this whole initiative, please go to
www.idealist.org/meetings.


4. Send in Your `Top Lists´

Submit to newsletter@iypf.org any books, websites, blogs, actions,
etc. that you recommend to other members of the IYPF community!