Ice melt time in Alaska, USA shows effects of climate change.

A contest held for the past 91 years in the village of Nenana rewards the person who most closely predicts when the ice will melt on the River Tanana. Records that have been kept of the exact day and time reveal that the melt now occurs 10 days earlier than during the 1950s. Dr. Martin Jeffries, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, said, "The Nenana classic is a pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century." 
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3602737.ece

Macedonian opera singer organizes two million tree planting. 

Opera singer and UNESCO Artist for Peace Boris Trajanov oversaw an effort to plant a tree for every Macedonian. To help reforest the land following a series of devastating fires last summer, over 200,000 Macedonians joined the project, including ministers, policemen, government officials, artists and ambassadors. Their efforts resulted in the planting of over 2,000,000 trees. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/sc_afp/macedoniaforestsconservation_080312182834 

University student sets super solar power example. 

Cliff Champion, a freshman at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, USA is a green living pioneer.  He has a solar generator on the roof of his dorm room that powers his computer, printer, and other devices. Cliff is also a vegetarian and an environmentally conscious consumer.  He said, "I hope when I am 80 years old…my grandkids can say, 'My granddad was the first to build a solar generator at his college way back in the early [two] thousands.'" 

http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/news/2008/2008-03-20-champion.htm


Employees working from home can help the environment.

One of the USA's largest call-centers, West Corporation, calculates that allowing employees to work from home is better for the environment.  The Omaha, Nebraska-based company estimates that in 2006, 112,000 call center operators were working at home, and forecasts home-based workers to grow to 300,000 by 2010.  The company projects that the increase in home-based workers would save 156 million gallons of gasoline due to the elimination of commuting.

http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8054559&nav=menu606_2_4