http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/ The Moments Count Journal is a weekly Internet magazine bringing worldwide change through collaboration. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/comment-page-1/#comment-1813 Brooke Leigh Sheldon Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:51:20 +0000 http://momentscount.com/?p=2410#comment-1813 You are so welcome!! It is a pleasure to bring her work to everyone's attention!! She is a very committed professional!!! You are so welcome!! It is a pleasure to bring her work to everyone’s attention!! She is a very committed professional!!!

]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/comment-page-1/#comment-1447 Sandi Severson Sat, 29 May 2010 22:38:59 +0000 http://momentscount.com/?p=2410#comment-1447 Loved this video and all the work she is doing! Thank you Moments Count for making this available. Loved this video and all the work she is doing! Thank you Moments Count for making this available.

]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/comment-page-1/#comment-1438 Christine Ranck Wed, 26 May 2010 10:54:24 +0000 http://momentscount.com/?p=2410#comment-1438 This work Valerie is doing is so wonderful! And I love her paradise "office," looking out on palm trees and beach. I spent some time in the rainforest in Borneo working with orangutans. There I learned that rainforests are getting burned and plowed down for farmland to support the cattle required for the worldwide beef industry (as in fast food hamburgers). But tragically, rainforest soil cannot support that kind of farming, and so after a few years, those plowed fields become virtually useless, requiring new acres to replace them. So we've taken something utterly precious and life-giving, and turned it into nothing. One of the greatest things we can each do to help, in addition to avoiding palm oil and rare rainforest wood, is to cut back on beef consumption, and stop supporting fast food. And thank goodness for people like Valerie! This work Valerie is doing is so wonderful! And I love her paradise “office,” looking out on palm trees and beach. I spent some time in the rainforest in Borneo working with orangutans. There I learned that rainforests are getting burned and plowed down for farmland to support the cattle required for the worldwide beef industry (as in fast food hamburgers). But tragically, rainforest soil cannot support that kind of farming, and so after a few years, those plowed fields become virtually useless, requiring new acres to replace them. So we’ve taken something utterly precious and life-giving, and turned it into nothing. One of the greatest things we can each do to help, in addition to avoiding palm oil and rare rainforest wood, is to cut back on beef consumption, and stop supporting fast food. And thank goodness for people like Valerie!

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