ecomm-a-rama

I set up some news searches and created a set of simple pages to pull in and display those feeds. You can find the start of this here:http://www.arcticribbon.org/rss/ [some technical issues need fixin’]

You probably know that you can search news items at Google News and get headlines/descriptions emailed to you regularly and/or subscribe to them as an RSS feed.

Right now, it’s pulling in terms like:

• wildfire
• wilderness
• blm
• national forests
• the wilderness society (minus some words to help skim off some articles from/about that other wilderness society down under)

There are probably other terms that come to mind (wildlife refuges for one) which could be added. This is still a work in progress but thought it might be useful to someone at this point. Still pulls in some irrelevant articles and has a bit of a time delay. But it’s quick and easy to use.

If anyone uses an rss reader (Firefox and IE 7 have built in RSS readers, btw) and simply wants to pull these same rss feeds that’s possible.

Please take a moment to head to…http://www.wilderness.org/takeaction/subscribe.cfm
http://www.wilderness.org/NorthCascades/Subscribe.cfm

Why?

The Wilderness Society publishes several FREE email newsletters that cover a variety of issues from wilderness to the BLM to wildfire to where to hike in the North Cascades. And much much more. Our monthly WildAlert newsletter and its accompanying action alerts are only the tip of the iceberg.

We have heard from independent, unbiased sources that these newsletters are informative, well-written and, once in a while, a bit humorous.

Here at E-Comm Central, we spend quite a bit of time encouraging members, activists, donors and visitors to the website (among others) to subscribe.

This is a friendly reminder that you can (and, I might say, should) subscribe yourself if you’re not already. Stay in the know, as it were. And feel free to encourage friends, colleagues, relatives, neighbors to join as well. Subscriptions make a great holiday gift, too (though I’m sure Bruce Leathwood would, understandably, rather you head on over the Donate page and give a gift membership).

You can subscribe from the homepage or go straight to…
http://www.wilderness.org/takeaction/subscribe.cfm

The North Cascades News has its own home at…
http://www.wilderness.org/NorthCascades/Subscribe.cfm

Please be sure to include your name and home address on the subscription form so that you can correspond through the system with your legislators. We NEVER share email addresses with other groups.

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About the Email Newsletters (VERY brief descriptions)
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(1) WildAlert, our monthly e-newsletter about general Wilderness issues, TWS happenings and reasons to contribute financially.

(2) Wilderness Report, a bi-monthly enewsletter from the Wilderness Support Center about wilderness campaigns.

(3) BLM Action Center News, a monthly e-newsletter from the BLM Action Center about the latest developments.

(4) Forest Planning News, monthly, from our Forest Team.

(5) Wildfire News, seasonal updates from our Wildfire Team about wildfire management on national lands.

One can subscribe to all the above newsletters at…
http://www.wilderness.org/takeaction/subscribe.cfm

(6) North Cascades News, a monthly summary of environmental events and issues in and around Washington state, can be found at…

(7) Coming in early 2007, EERD will begin publishing Wilderness Science News, a regular update about EERD publications.