It has taken us three years, but Edens Lost & Found is on the home stretch of production for its four segments to be aired on PBS. The latest to be completed are the Los Angeles segment with Jimmy Smits as host, and the Seattle segment with former Washington Governor Gary Locke narrating. The DVD's of these segments can be ordered beginning in mid-December for delivery in January.

Air Dates Set: It is a thrill for all of us to have finalized broadcast slots on the PBS calendar for these exciting new segments! Check your local listings: Los Angeles, Dream a Different City is set for January 11 and Seattle, The Future is Now will be seen January 4. What a great start for a NEW YEAR!

Please spread the word! Tell your friends, put it on your websites and blogs, alert your bookstores, write your politicians! You can even download and print the .pdf of the Edens brochure to include as background with your letter. It's on our website at http://www.edenslostandfound.org/download/ELFBrochure.pdf.

We are very pleased to announce that Wiland-Bell has won the Community Advocacy Award For Edens Lost & Found, given by Los Angeles and the surrounding cities along the Emerald Necklace. See the story of the Emerald Necklace on our website at http://www.edenslostandfound.org/home/preview.php?id=215

Liz Dow, president of Leadership Philadelphia (http://www.leadershipphiladelphia.org), in the Friday, Nov. 10 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, was invited to list her favorite media: the books, movies, poems, magazines, movies, music, art, theatre that have influenced her thinking. She wrote that she would like to tip an epidemic of connection and service in America, and closed her piece with this:

"If I had the power to order all of the Philadelphia region to read one book, it would be: Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities, by Harry Wiland and Dale Bell. And here's why: This book showcases several of Philadelphia's unsung heroes and shows us what is possible when we commit to serving our community."

Read the entire article at: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/sunday_review/15930376.htm

Welcome new Outreach Partners!

The Urban Sisterhood's mission is to cultivate community and promote sustainable living in Evansville through education, organic gardening, recycling, and environmental awareness. We are not-for-profit organization begun in April of 2005, and we're growing by leaps and bound with the help of our members and the surrounding community. We have put our garden to sleep for the winter, and in the spring we will start once again to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers for our community. We are applying for our 501c3 as the last step in becoming official and applying for grants to fund housing, more gardens, and an office space close to our garden. This winter we will focus on our recycled clothing, knitting, and sewing; and educating the public on how they can do the same. We attended the Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference at Bellermine University in Louisville, KY, sponsored by the Sierra Club. Upon our return from last year's conference, we coaxed members of our community to start a local co-op that is now thriving. We are also getting ready to put up our official website. It should be up and running by the end of the month!

(www.fuf.net) San Franciscans rely on FUF to help them plant and maintain trees for a more beautiful and healthy city. Since 1981, FUF's community-based tree plantings have literally transformed San Francisco's cityscape. In 2006, FUF celebrates its 25th anniversary. The 40,000 trees planted in that time - together with the participation of 40,000 volunteers - represent 40% of all the city's street trees. In addition to its neighborhood street tree planting program, FUF operates a tree care and maintenance program, and an education program featuring the award-winning Youth Tree Care Program (YTCP). The YTCP celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005, and in that time has hired, paid and trained more than 250 teenage youth from San Francisco's underserved areas to learn tree planting and maintenance skills. FUF also operates Tree Tours around the city and educational tree pruning workshops.