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	A Friend of the Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth (2000) is a story of environmental destruction.
		A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U.S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish ("I'm a mess and I know it.
		She and a friend of hers, April Wind, move in with Tierwater, officially for April Wind to write a biography, or rather hagiography, of Sierra Tierwater, his daughter, who died in 2001 as a martyr to the environmentalist cause.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Friend_of_the_Earth (841 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Earth: Overview
		Earth, our home planet, is the only planet in our solar system known to harbor life - life that is incredibly diverse.
		For instance, Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest in the solar system.
		Earth's diameter is just a few hundred kilometers larger than that of Venus.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth (199 words)

	ESA - Observing the Earth - About Earth Observation
		Over the last 20 years, Earth observation from space has uncovered startling evidence of man's detrimental effect on the natural environment and satellites are now being recognised as a key to helping us manage and monitor resources.
		The first significant contributions from ESA's Earth Observation Programme came in 1977, when the first of seven Meteosat meteorological satellites was launched to monitor the weather of Europe and Africa from a vantage point over the equator.
		Continuity of ESA's Earth observation activities is therefore critical and already work is well underway on ESA's Living Planet Programme, the next generation of satellite missions.
	www.esa.int /export/esaSA/GGGIMV7RVDC_earth_0.html (873 words)

	Metroactive Books \| T.C. Boyle
		T.C. Boyle satirizes hypocrisy in 'A Friend of the Earth'
		A Friend of the Earth is set in the ecologically disastrous period in the near future (that's the science fiction part) in which the greenhouse effect has become a world reality: Brazil and New Guinea are desert countries and Southern California has become monsoon territory.
		Ty Tierwater is an aging ex-eco activist living on a Southern California zoological ranch owned by an ex-rock star, a ranch that attempts to preserve the last specimens of the flotsam and jetsam of the earth's dying creatures: lions, Patagonian foxes, hyenas, bears and peccaries.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.09.00/boyle-0045.html (647 words)

	Friends of the Earth International - support the world's largest grassroots environmental network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Show your support for Friends of the Earth International with one of these designer t-shirts, made by an unknown Friends of the Earth International artist.
		The t-shirts depict an army of ants holding up the earth, and symbolise the power of ordinary people when they unite to protect the earth's natural resources.
		Friends of the Earth International is the largest network of grassroots groups campaigning on social and environmental issues in the world.
	www.foei.org /support/index.html (287 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
		In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life.
		Both gritty and surreal, A Friend of the Earth represents a high-water mark in Boyle's career-his deep streak of social concern is effortlessly blended here with genuine compassion for his characters and the spirit of sheer exhilarating playfulness readers have come to expect from his work.
		As Ty begins to outpace his colleagues in Earth Forever!, his actions become more unhinged and terroristic and, arguably, even harmful to the environmental movement and the environment.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/friend_of_the_earth1.asp (783 words)

	The Connection.org : T.C. Boyle : A Friend of the Earth.
		Everything's been poached or encroached out of existence, and the rats have inherited the earth.
		Ty Tierwater is a 75 year old former eco-terrorist who tried to save the earth back in the late 80's and early 1990's with his band of tree-huggers and eco-warriors.
		T.C. Boyle, Author "A Friend of the Earth"
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2000/09/20000912_b_main.asp (265 words)

	Join Friends of the Earth!
		For more than 30 years, Friends of the Earth has been working tirelessly to protect our planet from environmental degradation, preserve the biological diversity of life on earth, and empower citizens to have an influential voice in the decisions affecting the quality of their lives and environment.
		And all membership gifts to Friends of the Earth are tax-deductible as proscribed by law.
		Friends of the Earth - 1025 Vermont Ave.
	www.foe.org /mail/MM.html (302 words)

	FOE Briefing: How to be a Friend of the Earth
		Friends of the Earth's guide to waste reduction and recycling looks at what we throw away, the environmental problems caused by creating so much rubbish, and the potential for reuse and recycling, with suggestions on how individuals can help.
		A guide to successful community-based campaigning, drawing on almost 30 years of experience from Friends of the Earth, providing anyone who wants to get started with the first steps on how to run, and win, a local campaign.
		Friends of the Earth exists to protect and improve the conditions for life on Earth, now and for the future.
	www.foe.co.uk /pubsinfo/briefings/html/20010326111859.html (1622 words)

	The Earth Healing Bulletin - April 2006
		Through this newsletter, we will be featuring recent additions to the Earth Healing website, catch you up-to-date on our latest endeavors, and highlight areas that may be of special interest to you, our loyal subscribers.
		The eco-spirituality presented in this text is founded on compassion for the wounded Earth and is presented as emerging through the seasons of the year.
		Our Earth Healing Resource Assessment Service (ERAS) provides an integrated analysis of an institution or community and serves as an instrument for long-range planning in order to achieve greater natural resource conservation and sustainability.
	www.earthhealing.info /newsapr06.html (404 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Multimedia: Gallery: Earth From Mars
		This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon.
		The contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see.The inset shows a combination of four panoramic camera images zoomed in on Earth.
		Earth was too faint to be detected in images taken with the panoramic camera's color filters.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1483 (137 words)

	Fatherville
		God the Father extends His hand of friendship to a man, a sure sign of what kind of deep relationship is possible in the Kingdom.
		Jesus never did, all the way to the cross and beyond; He was a good and faithful friend.
		In this state of goodness we can be friends with our kids, not as the expense of our authority but because of it.
	fatherville.faithsite.com /content.asp?CID=17730 (669 words)

	FoE Europe - Home
		Brussels, 18 December - Friends of the Earth Europe has welcomed today's rejection by EU Environment Ministers of a proposal to force Austria to lift its bans on genetically modified (GM) foods and crops.
		Brussels, 18 December 2006 - Friends of the Earth Europe today welcomed the contribution of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson in the global efforts to tackle climate change, but highlighted loopholes in his proposals to link trade and climate change.
		Friends of the Earth Europe is looking for an Extractive Industry Campaigner
	www.foeeurope.org (395 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
		As for A Friend of the Earth, I would have to assign it to all three of these invented categories: it is very much a love story, but one that deals with the death of many of the things that we, as a species, hold dear.
		You've said that Friend is the logical outgrowth of Tortilla Curtain.
		I did not consider Orwell when writing A Friend of the Earth, but I suppose the comparisons are opposite in one way—we have both written of dystopias.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/friend_of_the_earth2.asp (1571 words)

	Books of The Times: In Dark Days, the Human Hyena Has the Last Laugh
		The social, not the personal, the extreme, not the mundane, have been the focus of his stories, and his heroes have tended to elicit contempt or pity, not sympathy or insight.
		All this has begun to change with "A Friend of the Earth," his latest novel, which manages to be funny and touching, antic and affecting, all at the same time.
		He's demonstrated in "A Friend of the Earth" that he's not just a manic and maniacally talented performer, but that he's got the novelistic equivalent of solid acting chops as well.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/001003boyle-book-review.html (673 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A FRIEND OF EARTH by T. Coraghessan Boyle
		There are few living writers who could meld the dual terrors of nature run amuck and tragedy in one's waning years with such comic affluence and literary invention as the wondrously funny T. Boyle.
		A FRIEND OF THE EARTH, Boyle's latest, is yet another in his pantheon of achingly disturbing facts of life in our age that are just ripe for the comedic picking.
		"To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of the people." Ty's proclamation underlines the essential struggle of all the characters.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0141002050.asp (379 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002
		A brief excerpt from A Friend of the Earth
		Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon.
		As a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter Sierra and his wife Andrea.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2002/titles/Boyle.htm (291 words)

	Microbeworld: Discover Unseen Life on Earth
		In the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty went to sleep for 100 years in a castle protected by giant thorns and then was revived by the kiss of a prince.
		In 2000, scientists told a microbial version of this fairy tale, announcing that they had revived bacteria that had lain in suspended animation for 250 million years, encased in salt crystals deep in the Earth.
		The first dinosaurs were just starting to appear on Earth at that time.
	www.microbe.org /microbes/friend_or_foe.asp (153 words)

	planetwater » Blog Archive » A friend of the earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Toss in streaks of unabashed sentimentality, a scattershot satire, and several signature narrative ambushes, and A Friend of the Earth only further embellishes the already prodigious Boyle reputation.
		The only complication is his dual penchant for empathy and ineptitude, exacerbated by a frustration that swells with accumulating incitements.
		“To be a friend of the earth,” he avers in retrospect, “you have to be an enemy of the people”.
	www.planetwater.de /wordpress/index.php?p=8 (666 words)

	science@nasa - Science Strategy
		NASA transformed its organization in the summer of 2004, uniting the former Earth and Space Science Enterprises.
		The Science Mission Directorate carries out the scientific exploration of the Earth, Moon, Mars and beyond; charts the best route of discovery; and reaps the benefits of Earth and space exploration for society.
		This combined organization is able to establish an understanding of the Earth, other planets, and their evolution; bring the lessons of our study of Earth to the exploration of the Solar System; and assure the discoveries made here will enhance our work there.
	science.hq.nasa.gov /strategy (295 words)

	Amazon.com: A Friend of the Earth: Books: T.C. Boyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"To be a friend of the earth," he avers in retrospect, "you have to be an enemy of the people." Boyle's spirited tale sustains the brashness of Ty's convictions.
		Switching back and forth between the 1990s and 2020s, A Friend of the Earth is a tale of environmental horror filled with ironic humor.
		One thing that I really enjoy about TC Boyle's work in general and A Friend* of the Earth* in particular is the way Boyle contemplates time.
	www.amazon.com /Friend-Earth-T-C-Boyle/dp/0141002050 (2680 words)

	Review: TCBoyle_Friend
		In A Friend Of The Earth, TC Boyle manages to make the elimination of most animal species and the slow destruction of human habitat by apocalyptic weather patterns almost seem like minor subplots.
		The environmentalists who warned and the earth savagers who savaged merely struggle to exist.
		A Friend Of The Earth will hold your attention to its apocalyptic end.
	www.writingsite.com /pages/reviews/TCBoyle.htm (264 words)

	Salon Politics2000 \| The town that haunts Al Gore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		How an incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, pollutes the vice president's reputation as a friend of the earth.
		The next day he toured the school with the principal, greeted students at breakfast, visited with parents, popped into classrooms, ate lunch with students and then thanked everyone at an all-school assembly.
		He even co-taught a fifth-grade math class and a first-grade language arts/writing course that was studying Earth Day.
	archive.salon.com /politics2000/feature/2000/04/26/gore/index.html (961 words)

	A Friend of the Earth - Word Power
		In 'A Friend of the Earth', Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is a suburban drudge and manager of an antiquated shopping centre in New York, whose life is completely changed by his marriage to Andrea, a well-known environmental activist.
		T.C. Boyle's last work of the twentieth century seamlessly weaves these storylines together, to produce a modern morality tale, and a charcteristically skewed and provocative vision of the future.
		Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping: 'A Friend of the Earth' takes the environmentalist subtext of the bestselling 'Tortilla Curtain' and plays it big.
	www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0747553467 (369 words)

	Event Solutions 11/2000: A Friend of the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In keeping with the Clean Energy Now theme of the event, the main stage and vendor tents were powered completely by renewable energy resources, courtesy of generators provided by Kohler Event Services.
		The theme tents--Air, Earth, People, Sun and Water--housed scores of exhibitors from a variety of companies, organizations and government agencies, who were promoting technologies that use non-polluting energy sources, including wind, solar, natural gas and biofuels."
		When overcast conditions resulted in problems for several solar power sources, the Kohler units provided the extra power that was needed.
	www.event-solutions.com /articles/2000/11-00/0b1EVENT.html (596 words)

	Powell's Books - A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
		The year is 2025 and the earth has pretty much gone to shit.
		Told by a once passionate environmentalist who's now just trying to survive, A Friend of the Earth is idealism and satire delivered without pathos.
		Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love" — scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0141002050-4 (612 words)

	Green explosive is a friend of the Earth - 27 March 2006 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Green explosive is a friend of the Earth - 27 March 2006 - New Scientist
		Green explosive is a friend of the Earth
		A new type of explosive may make blowing things up a little more environmentally friendly, according to a new study.
	www.newscientist.com /article/dn8903-green-explosive-is-a-friend-of-the-earth.html (473 words)

	Woman Wisdom™ personal growth, women's spirituality, sacred feminine - Sue King: Friend of the Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She is available as a workshop and retreat leader on a variety of subjects including Opening the Heart, Behaving as if the Spirit in All Life Mattered and The Healing Power of Color.
		Entrain with the cosmic rhythms of the earth and heavens — connecting to an ancient way of knowing and being.
		A weekend workshop weaving the themes of archetypal patterns of female development and the Wheel of the Year, sacred anatomy of the chakras and moon mysteries, The Goddess as Feminine Principle and our oneness with Nature.
	www.womanwisdom.com /king.html (765 words)

	Observer \| BP: a friend of the earth?
		At the same time, the indices have bewildered many consumers by excluding blue chip businesses such as Tesco and Safeway.
		Craig Mackenzie, a member of the FTSE4Good advisory committee and director of governance and socially responsible investment at Friends Ivory and Sime, says the aim of the indices has been misunderstood.
		These are not ethical or environmental indices that stick to companies with a greener- than-green record.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4225883-102272,00.html (535 words)

	Restore Products Company - News
		Machines that refill bottles may be a friend of the Earth - and of retailers as well.
		If the earth could hire a public relations agent, Laurie Brown would be first in line to apply for the job.
		Prior to opening the Restore the Earth Store, when Laurie Brown was writing her business plan, she pinpointed the major obstacles in selling ecologically sound products.
	www.restoreproducts.com /news.html (812 words)

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