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Social Alliance Network is about helping organizations merge technology and human collaboration to advocate for the preservation, restoration, and sustainability of our natural resources.  We help build meaningful relationships with organizations and community leaders that have a passion to work collaboratively and communicate in positive ways. We integrate social media technologies that support productive communication strategies.

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Calling Back the Salmon

Calling Back the Salmon

Calling Back the Salmon to the Yuba River How one community is organizing around Spiritual and Community Action as ways to call back what has been lost. Help introduce the SALMON RESOLUTION to Local, State and Federal leaders and decision makers.Your Support will help in efforts by the Calling Back the Salmon committee to bring about sustainable public policy directives. [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

Rumi Poet of the Heart to be Screened in NY City – Please spread the news! http://bit.ly/9n3sxJ # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Central California Watershed

One solution that can not be overlooked as a reason for the decline of Chinook Salmon in Central California is to restore indigenous Salmonid access to the ancestral spawning grounds of Chinook Salmon to the Sierra Nevada foothills and upper watershed. The following three maps illustrate Historic salmon habitat, Passage Barriers, and the “relicensing” by [...]

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Gr8 Social Media tips from Social Examinar

I ran across these tips this morning on how to market events with Social Media tools. This is well worth the time if you are building a tribe! 12 Ways to Market Your Event With Social Media By Rich Brooks Published July 20, 2010 Whether you’re planning a real-world event (like a conference, tweetup or [...]

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Gross National Happiness

I’ve often wondered why our economic models have be built upon a metric of “Gross National Product”, and later “Gross Domestic Product.” Unfortunately for the Earth and Natural Resource Sustainability, these metrics have overwhelmed the ability of U.S. communities to create sustainable socio-economic policies and practice. In this 17 minute TED presentation, Chip Conley suggests [...]

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Simple Things

Simplicity is not simple…  or is it?

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I Feel

Ever wondered what the world is feeling. Check out this extraordinary story telling. “Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we’re all feeling and looking for.” Source TED

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Do schools kill creativity?

As music, dance, painting, crafting, cooking, and other creative endeavors fall to the bottom of priority lists in schools and many homes, this short video is a reminder of why… Check it out… I look forward to your thoughts. How schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com http://bit.ly/bYLSDF

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Nurturing Creativity – “Doing Our Dance Anyhow”

What is the mystery of Creativity? Can we remain sane as “artists”? as teachers” as leaders in sharing our gift” Today I am inspired by a presence that I like to think appears in all of our lives. A presence so strong, a “voice” from the invisible, so strong, that we can not ignore it. [...]

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Winnemem Wintu Leaders in New Zealand to Woo the Salmon Home

by Dan Bacher On March 21, Jesse McKinley published an outstanding article in the New York Times about the Winnemem Wintu Tribe’s journey to New Zealand to bring winter chinook salmon introduced into the Rakaia River back to their native stream, the McCloud River. Over 2 dozen tribal members boarded a plane Friday night on their spiritual journey to New Zealand. “Once in New Zealand, the [...]

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Resolution: Calling Back Salmon

Help introduce the SALMON RESOLUTION to Local, State and Federal leaders and decision makers. Your Support will help in efforts by the Calling Back the Salmon committee to bring about sustainable public policy directives.   Help give Salmon and our Waterways the rights to live and flow freely in our communities once again.   Simply [...]

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