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CALIF. GREEN GROUPS EMBRACE PLANKTO ECORESTORATION.


The Thoreau Center and the Earth Island Institute The Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower. It organizes and encourages activism around environmental issues and provides public education. Funding comes from individual members and supporting organizations.  are happy to announce that all of their 100+ NGO NGO
abbr.
nongovernmental organization

Noun 1. NGO - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
nongovernmental organization
 offices and projects will be carbon neutral throughout 2007 thanks to a generous donation of ecosystem restoration carbon offsets from Planktos, Inc. of Foster City, Calif.

According to Planktos CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and chief scientist Russ George, "We honor these transformative organizations for following in the footsteps of legendary environmentalist environmentalist

a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment.
 David Brower who committed himself in his final years to Ecosystem Restoration for Generations yet Unborn.

"David founded the Global CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac
 Service (C for conservation, P for preservation, and R for restoration) 'to help catalyze the restoration of natural and human systems,' but his passing and current US policies have slowed progress to his goal. At Planktos we are now working to fulfill David's last and greatest objective, conserving, preserving and, above all, restoring the ocean and forest ecosystems on which all life depends."

Although downplayed by industrial CO2 solution providers and their policy allies, natural ocean and forest restoration is the most effective, inexpensive and urgently needed response to global warming, marine crises, and habitat collapse. Just restoring the marine plankton that human activities have killed off since 1980 can reduce atmospheric CO2 by 3-4 billion tons, more than four times the Kyoto Protocol's current inadequate target. More importantly, it will also lower ocean acidity and recharge the marine food chain for fish, birds and whales.

Thanks to Kyoto Protocol carbon offset markets Planktos has secured green funding to accelerate this long overdue effort with a number of research-intensive pilot projects of significant climatic and ecological scale. Planktos is happy to share its current and future carbon credits with environmental allies in this cause.

California's 2007 Carbon Footprint Free Communities Thoreau Center for Sustainability: Located in San Francisco's Presidio, the Thoreau Center houses a vibrant and influential community of 70 primarily non-profit organizations working for environmental health and social justice. Powerfully networked and synergistically syn·er·gis·tic  
adj.
1. Of or relating to synergy: a synergistic effect.

2. Producing or capable of producing synergy: synergistic drugs.

3.
 supportive, this progressive village has been an internationally important source of vision and effective activism for a generation. See participating tenant list here:http://thoreau.org/Tenants/tenantlist.html

Earth Island Institute

Founded in 1982 by the renowned David Brower, EII (Enterprise Information Integration) Similar to an EIS (executive information system), an EII aggregates current information from all data sources within an organization.  now umbrellas 38 separate projects at the forefront of environmental research and defense. EII also sponsors the annual Brower Youth Awards "to call forth a new generation of environmental leaders" and is one of the key organizations constructing the David Brower Center in Berkeley, a multimillion dollar complex that promises to be the greenest building in the state both in its design and activities. See EII's trail-blazing track record here: http://earthisland.org/abouteii/abouteii.html

Ecorestoration Offset Donor Planktos, Inc. is an ecosystem restoration firm specializing in permanent climate forest parks and blue ocean phytoplankton phytoplankton

Flora of freely floating, often minute organisms that drift with water currents. Like land vegetation, phytoplankton uses carbon dioxide, releases oxygen, and converts minerals to a form animals can use.
 resuscitation resuscitation /re·sus·ci·ta·tion/ (-sus?i-ta´shun) restoration to life of one apparently dead.

cardiopulmonary resuscitation
. The company is now acquiring its own research flagship from which it will soon launch a new series of large science-intensive pilot projects to revive failing ocean plankton populations in the Pacific, Atlantic and Southern Ocean basins. This in turn can buffer ocean acidity, replenish the marine food chain, and sequester sequester v. to keep separate or apart. In so-called "high-profile" criminal prosecutions (involving major crimes, events, or persons given wide publicity) the jury is sometimes "sequestered" in a hotel without access to news media, the general public or their  million tons of CO2 for centuries or more. SRI and green cosponsors are welcome to collaborate in subsequent blooms.

Planktos' Budapest subsidiary KlimaFa (Climate Tree) has just received Hungarian government approval to reforest re·for·est  
tr.v. re·for·est·ed, re·for·est·ing, re·for·ests
To replant (an area) with forest cover.



re
 tens of thousands of degraded acres back to biodiverse mixed species forests. From the moment of planting, these young climate forests will be included in existing national parks where they will be strictly protected in perpetuity. KlimaFa will run these eco-protective and village-sustaining projects in collaborative partnership with Hungary's government, National Park Service, and Academy of Sciences. They will be entirely funded out of the restored forests' accumulating carbon credit value.

For more information, visit http://Klimafa.com.

Planktos is a division of Solar Energy Limited that trades under the ticker symbol SLRE SLRE St. Louis River Estuary
SLRE Stirling Laboratory Research Engine
SLRE Streamlined Risk Evaluation
.OB.

For more information, visit http://planktos.com or call 650/638-1975.
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