Day February 17, 2007

Francisco Avecedo Jr. led an immigration rights march at his high school last May in West Hartford CT. In June, during the school’s annual pranks day, police were called, and he got arrested videoing the police arresting another student. Like…

Working on their own with no outside aid, farmers in Niger have made huge areas of land productive again by simple techniques. They stopped cutting down tree sprouts in the fields when preparing for harvests, sowing the crops between the…

Tree Nation wants to plant 8 million trees in Niger to help stop the desertification. They are affliated with the UN, and have a neat interactive map showing the trees, linking them to blog entries. Check it out.