Supreme Court rules Georgia can’t put the law behind a paywall A narrowly divided US Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right to freely share the official law code of Georgia. The state claimed to own the copyright for the Official Code of Georgia Annotated and sued a nonprofit called Public.Resource.Org for publishing it online. Monday's ruling is not only a victory for the open-government group, it's an important precedent that will help secure the right to publish other legally significant public documents. "Officials empowered to speak with the force of law cannot be the authors of—and therefore cannot copyright—the works they create in the course of their official duties," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in an opinion that was joined by four other justices on the nine-member court.
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AmeriCorps Partners with Up With Trees A team of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) members is planting trees and clearing unkempt public land along the sides of roads and freeways across greater Tulsa. The group of nine young adults arrived April 12 and will be serving Tulsa through May 27. While in town, the AmeriCorps NCCC team is partnering with Up With Trees, working on their 700+ sites to plant, preserve, and promote Tulsa’s urban forest for the health and prosperity of the community. Over the course of this six-week project, the AmeriCorps NCCC team will be clearing garbage, overgrown vegetation, and invasive species to prepare spaces for Up With Trees to plant in future.
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Forest Landowners Guide to Tree Planting Success Planting trees is visionary Imagine a forest where there was once pasture, or woodland where there were once crops. Imagine a healthy, diverse forest, resistant to insects, fire, and disease, that will contribute to the property for generations. Planting trees has many benefits: improved wildlife habitat, high-quality trees for timber or specialty wood products, revegetated buffers along streams to protect water quality, increased species diversity and resiliency, enhanced attractiveness, and a more valuable estate for your family or heirs. Many view tree planting as an opportunity to leave behind a legacy--one that may benefit future generations, wildlife, and the environment.
No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas Anywhere As a serial entrepreneur, I’m addicted to ideas. I feed off of ’em. And nothing makes me more upset than having a great idea… and losing it. Ditching Evernote? Check Out 5 Free Web Clipping Alternatives Perish the thought. Why would you ditch Evernote? The one de facto tool that can take care of capturing, annotating, tagging, and organizing all the information that’s out there. If I am sounding too gung ho about this software, I am definitely not alone. Evernote has lots of uses to crow about. But then the web space of web clipping tools and information managers is not Evernote’s alone.
Yes, Trees Are a Viable Climate Solution If there was one unlikely buzzword to come out of the most recent gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, it was “tree-planting.” WEF launched a global initiative to “grow, restore and conserve 1 trillion trees around the world,” with the support of leaders like United States President Donald Trump, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, and Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff. Claire O’Neill, the chair of this year’s UN climate conference, praised the campaign and tweeted, “we will put the power of natural climate solutions at the heart of COP 26.”
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