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Earth Victories
Props for North
America’s Green
Youth Leaders
Six of 125 North American youth
applicants who are spearheading
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programs successfully tackling
environmental problems have
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been recognized by Earth Island
Institute as winners of its 10th an-
Dreams Tune
niversary Brower Youth awards.
Up the Brain
The nonprofit organization sup-
To Freud, dreaming provides a play-
ports those under age 23 who are
ground for the unconscious mind; to
creating solutions to protect the health of our shared planet. The latest winners are
Jung, it is a stage where the psyche’s
Alec Loorz, Adarsha Shivakumar and Hai Vo of California; Robin Bryan of Mani-
archetypes act out primal themes.
toba; Diana Lopez of Texas; and Sierra Crane-Murdoch of Vermont.
Recent theories hold that dreams help
The 2009 young leaders are responsible for, among other achievements,
the brain to consolidate emotional
saving 1 million acres of boreal forest, helping to prevent permitting for 20 new
memories and to work through cur-
coal-fired plants and five coal mining applications for mountaintop removal,
rent life problems.
and transforming food purchasing across the University of California system to
Now, in a new paper published
nutritious and sustainable products. To date, a total of 61 award recipients have
in the journal Natural Reviews
raised $1.4 million for environmental causes; trained 3,000 youths in advocacy;
Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson,
organized 32,000 youths in environmental projects and involved thousands more
a psychiatrist and longtime sleep
adults in 3,300 events and actions; held 500 lobby meetings with elected officials;
researcher at Harvard, argues that the
helped to pass eight bills; implemented 20 university-wide environmental policies;
main function of rapid-eye-move-
and produced 20 documentary films.
ment sleep, or REM, when most
dreaming occurs, is physiological.
The brain is warming its circuits,
anticipating the sights and sounds
and emotions of waking, tuning
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“It’s like jogging; the body doesn’t
remember every step, but it knows
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it has exercised. It has been tuned
up,” says Hobson. “It’s the same idea
here.” The theory might help explain
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