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For the first time in recorded history, the Northwest Passage is now open and almost completely free of pack ice. Researchers say that sattellite photos show that artic ice is now disappearing at a rate three times greater than in 2005.

According to the European Space Agency, nearly 200 satellite images from the Danish National Space Center (DNSC) indicate that the Arctic ice levels are at an all time low since the first images were taken in 1978. As a result, the Northwest Passage has completely opened up for the first time in recorded history.

Charitybuzz.com is auctioning off a lunch with President Bill Clinton and Chevy Chase. This celebrity auction will raise money for The Center for Environmental Education Online founded by Jayni and Chevy Chase and will support an event known as the Chevy Chase Green School Auction. Proceeds will be used to provide connections for in-service teachers so that they may receive environmental education materials and resources for their classroom.

Charitybuzz, an online auction service that works along side non-profit organizations to auction off experiences, memorabilia and merchandise, is holding a charity auction that includes lunch for two with both President Clinton and Chevy Chase. Charitybuzz strives to create buzz around specific charities through online auctions and live bidding functions and has come together with the two celebrities to raise money for a non-profit organization.

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You can place a bid to have lunch with President Clinton.Lunch with Chevy Chase will also be offered on thisonline charity auction.

The World Wildlife Fund is supporting United Nations efforts to assist internally displaced people while protecting wildlife in Virunga National Park.

With international relief organizations estimating that more than 35,000 people have fled the heavily armed conflict near Sake in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past week, the World Wildlife Fund warned that the habitats of several endangered species, including mountain gorillas, could be put at serious risk.

Event's purpose was to raise environmental awareness. Bagonaut battles the evil Plastosis. Bagonaut triumphant!

Donned in his canvas bago-suit and helmet, self-proclaimed "Bagonaut" Egan Sanders emerged from BIGBAG1 at noon on Sunday, Sept 9th ending his 24 hour environmental odyssey. Bagonaut slowly descended an external ladder as the crowd of onlookers cheered. Moments later, he planted a large flag of the Earth into the ground and proclaimed, "That’s one small step for Bagonaut, one giant leap for reusable shopping bags!"

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Plastosis Bagosis, an evil "bag" guy, and the arch enemy
of Bagonaut, who was trying to prevent the launch of
Bigbag1. The use and disposal of plastic is becoming a
pressing issue as increasing worldwide population and
industrialization burden the Earth's ecosystems.

30 Days of Peace - under the auspices of the Culture of Peace Initiative - is a global networking project that is tracking and raising awareness of Peacebuilding events happening throughout the world between September 11th and October 10th, 2007, in alignment with the International Day of Peace. 30 Days of Peace is a joint project of Pathways To Peace and Earthdance International.

The first annual 30 Days of Peace began on September 11th, 2007, the 101st anniversary of the founding, by Mahatma Gandhi, of the modern non-violence movement, and concludes on October 10th, the birthday of the late international journalist and musician Daniel Pearl. The central focus of 30 Days is the International Day of Peace, held annually on September 21st.

Nature's 26th season kicks off with a worldwide investigation of honeybee die-offs, shot in HD; original podcast available on iTunes and Nature Online.

From crop fields to hi-tech labs, Nature follows scientists and bee experts investigating a rapidly unfolding ecological nightmare when Silence of the Bees premieres Sunday, October 28 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). The kick-off of Nature's 26th season is available in High Definition. Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham is series narrator.

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Honey bees entering a beehive.GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

With the Islamic holy month of Ramadan fast approaching, how many employers are aware of its arrival and the impact it will have on the Muslim employees? Kwintessential, a cultural awareness training provider, has released a free guide on Ramadan to help raise some awareness.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins this week. Millions of people from Morocco to Malaysia will fast everyday from sunrise to sunset for 30 days. Among these will be significant numbers of Muslims working in offices in Europe and North America where Ramadan slips past unnoticed. This lack of awareness can and does cause inconvenience, stress and unhappiness to practicing Muslims in the workplace. Kwintessential, a leading cross cultural communication training provider, has released a free guide for employers with Muslim staff to help them better understand the month and what it means to Islam's adherents.

A general strike has been called for today by 911Truth.org, who claim that the current administration has used the events of September 11, 2001 as an excuse to curtail our rights and to engage in war.

AlternativeApproaches.com will not publish any articles or news stories today in support of the general strike be called by 911Truth.org and other organizations. For more information on this strike, go to 911Truth.org Calls for General Strike on September 11th.

An international Hindu rights organization is concerned over a growing intolerance towards Hindu's by right wing Christians in the West.

Hindu Human Rights is concerned by what they believe to be a growing intolerance of the right wing Christian elements in the West which have been increasingly targeting Hindus and Hinduism in recent years. The latest incident, where a yoga instructor was banned from using two southwest England churches because the priests considered yoga to be 'un-Christian,' cannot be treated as an isolated incident, says HHR. In fact, according to HHR, it is in line with fundamentalist Christian thinkers such as K.P. Yohannen, head of US based Gospel for Asia, who in his book Revolution in World Missions refers to yoga as a means "to receive visitation from demon spirits" into the mind and body, as opposed to a practice for spiritual and physical development.

Festival reducing, reusing, recycling waste to help environment.

Farm Aid 2007: A Homegrown Festival will be the first major music event to serve local, organic and family-farm foods at its concessions and to artists, crews and VIPs backstage. Every concessions stand at Farm Aid's September 9 benefit concert at Randall's Island in New York City will meet these criteria. Farm Aid hopes its unprecedented food procurement will demonstrate how family-farm foods can be integrated into everyday life.

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Neil Young concert on November 9, 1976, in Austin, Texas.
Young is appearing at this year's Farm Aid concert at
Randall's Island in NYC.