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Framed by its wiry tail feathers, a red bird of paradise is nature's valentine—an apt emblem for this family of birds famous for fanciful plumage and elaborate courtship rituals.

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The Save the Earth Foundation functions as a non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to the expansion of environmental awareness in our society. As an organization committed to raising public environmental consciousness by supporting scientific research and educational programs, we are optimistic that our work will have a very positive impact on the efforts currently under way to solve our earth's problems.

The Save the Earth Foundation embraces overall objectives which include: enhancing the quality of our global environment for the benefit of all people and promoting a better understanding of the effects our society has on the long term health of our planet.

The Save the Earth Foundation's research endeavors center on the selection and funding of environmentally beneficial programs within our institutions of higher education. In order to achieve our objectives we are committed to the continued support of vital research programs including:

Seminars and Workshops to coordinate and concentrate the research potential of associated campuses: Such as those held in 1989 at CU Davis to merge the efforts of all nine University of California campuses and their affiliated national laboratories.

Research focusing on the consequences of global warming through large scale modeling: Like the investigation under way at Duke University in their unique Deuteron Project.

Efforts to evaluate the current state of our planet's atmosphere: Similar to the endeavors of scientists within the Climate Center at Columbia University.

Studies centering on the psychological ramifications of our deteriorating environment: Analogous to the research currently underway at UCLA's Center for the Study of the Environment and Society where their efforts focus on interactions between the environment and social processes.

With the support of people from all walks of life we are confident that the Foundation's efforts will help to reverse the environmental deterioration of our planet. Thank you for your concern with regards to our planet's future.

Environmental Research Projects

Our support of research in the physical sciences will continue to find solutions to these numerous man-made problems of the past and present. We feel that our support of research will undoubtedly lead us to better understand how we can change our attitudes towards our environment and thus insure a healthy future for our planet. Learn more about how our contributions to leading universities have made a difference.

The Davidson Se amount is a spectacular geologic feature on which recent explorations have documented dramatic biological discoveries (some featured on the BBC production "Planet Earth").

The exploration of Se amounts is relatively novel, because we only recently have the technology to access these deep areas. This project would fund a postdoctoral researcher to compare the biology on Davidson Se amount to other sea mounts as well as non-sea mount surrounding areas in the Pacific Ocean. This work may help finalize decisions on whether to protect Davidson Se amount by including it as part of the National Marine Sanctuary.

University Of Washington: Department of Earth and Space Science Save The Earth is funding research to understand the natural baseline from which climate change occurs:

Climate change occurs in response to natural forces, but also in response to some of mankind's activities, but all we can observe is the resultant of changes from both sources. If we are ever to address some of the climate problems we are facing, it is necessary to understand the causes. What we are doing in Central Asia helps establish how the natural climate system behaved before there was any question of anthropogenic forcing.   The Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE) Program focuses on the critical environmental questions of the day: problems that transcend state and national borders, yet also have local relevance. ESE Program research and training activities are both experimental and analytical in nature, often involving laboratory or field studies but also modeling and policy analysis.

Both the research and instruction recognize the interconnections between soil, air, water and biota, as well as the interdependence of human and ecological health. Equally important, the Program emphasizes the interactions and interdependence's between science, engineering, public policy economics and law in the protection of the environment lic health.