<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><news><newsItem><title>Take ACTION</title><content><![CDATA[The Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit was created in partnership with the Sierra Business Council and Saving the Sierra because sharing stories about people, place, and innovation helps to protect our beautiful places.]]></content><image>img/home-attilio.jpg</image><link><a href="Sustaining-Rural-Places-Tookit">Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit</a></link><color>blue</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>Partners in Stewardship</title><content><![CDATA[After years of courtroom fights over logging in the Clackamas River basin, environmental watchdogs and the U.S. Forest Service have learned to work together.]]></content><image>img/hd-small%20river.jpg</image><link><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1206498320101840.xml&amp;coll=7">READ ARTICLE</a></link><color>green</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>Local architects awarded</title><content><![CDATA[The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) has announced that McCamant & Durrett Architects are the recipients of the Silver 2008 Energy Value Housing Award for their Nevada City Cohousing project.]]></content><image>img/home-builder.jpg</image><link><a href="http://yubanet.com/regional/McCamant-Durrett-Architects-Win-National-Award-for-Energy-Efficient-Homes-at-Nevada-City-Cohousing.php">READ ARTICLE</a></link><color>red</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>Revived Water Flow</title><content><![CDATA[The Lower Owens River has flooded for millenniums, but this flood was artificial, part of the most ambitious river restoration project in the West. The river mostly disappeared when the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, but 15 months ago engineers began redirecting some aqueduct water into the channel.]]></content><image>img/hd-Eastern%20Sierra.jpg</image><link><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/21/BAC8VLUBR.DTL&amp;hw=water&amp;sn=006&amp;sc=722">READ ARTICLE</a></link><color>green</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>PG&amp;E ClimateSmart™</title><content><![CDATA[Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s ClimateSmart™ program announced the largest investments in verifiable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions under California’s rigorous forest carbon sequestration project protocols.]]></content><image>img/home-leaf%20with%20dew.jpg</image><link><a href="Other-Articles">VIEW PRESS RELEASE</a></link><color>blue</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>Stop Your Junkmail</title><content><![CDATA[Would you like to stop junk mail, help the environment, and raise money for Sierra Business Council? We've found a way - by partnering with 41 Pounds.org.]]></content><image>img/home-41Pounds%20fitted.jpg</image><link><a href="http://www.41pounds.org/sbcouncil/">WE CAN MAKE IT STOP. CLICK HERE</a></link><link2><a href="Eliminate-Your-Junkmail"></a></link2><color>orange</color></newsItem><newsItem><title>The Next, Best West</title><content><![CDATA[Presented by Coldstream Creative, The Next, Best West is a documentary film that will show how our relationship to the landscape has evolved over the last one hundred and fifty years.]]></content><image>img/home-Raching.jpg</image><link><a href="http://www.coldstreamcreative.com/trailer.html">WATCH THE TRAILER</a></link><color>blue</color></newsItem></news>